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ABSTRACT
The engagement of
Innovation and

INNOVATION
Innovation training can
close some gaps in our
entire nation. It will also
induce critical thinking

PROPOSAL
and mould our youths to
be innovative. The
acquired knowledge will
emerge new
entrepreneurs and
retard our
unemployment rate.
16 April 2024
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CONTENTS

Page
1. Statement of Proposal……………………………………………………………. 2

2. Executive summary………………………………………………………………... 2

3. Topics to be covered ……………………………………………………………… 3

4. Benefits of Innovation education for students……………………..... 3

5. Previous Similar Projects achieved………………………………………... 6

6. Employability Skills Achieved………………………………………………… 7

7. Other Benefits………………………………………………………………………… 8

8. Contact Details………………………………………………………………………. 9

9. Closing Remarks……………………………………………………………………. 9

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1. Proposal Statement
Innovation is the catalyst to all developments and growth of new and existing
businesses. Intensely equipping our graduates will help alleviate poverty and help
instil employability skills in them, hence we propose to Zimbabwe Open University to
incorporate our innovation workshops in the curriculum.

2 Executive Summary

PBC is a training and development service provider which offers a range of learning
programmes and training services nationwide.
Our aim is to contribute to the reconstruction and development of the new South
Africa National Qualification Framework (NQF) by offering career outcomes-based
education, as well as to enhance employment and business development.

The company was founded in 2011. We offer unit standards training, short skills
programmes, leaner-ships as well as non-accredited courses.
We also offer the following courses:

 Health and safety  Supervisory courses

 Hand tools courses  Roadworks and consulting services
 Plant and machinery  Compliance courses

Through new technologies & a personalized approach to learning, in 2022 we

opened a new door to educational opportunities on Innovation by engaging small to
medium businesses doing various trades. To date we have conducted workshops for
a number of individuals and companies, including Sibanye Stillwater in South Africa.
We believe giving room Innovation training can eliminate rural-urban migration and
also encourage the utilisation of local resources. Enlightenment on innovation will
also induce our people to spot opportunities within their areas, which will also
improve their standard of living.

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3. Topics to be covered – 5days Workshop

1. The problem of neglecting Innovation

2. 5 formal forces of Innovation

3. 7key strategic innovation principles

4. Innovation must be everyone’s business

5. Creative thinking

6. Innovation in Multinational Corporations (MNCs)

7. Collaboration

8. Managing Collaboration

9. Focus on Market-creating Innovation

10. Three types of innovations and only one drives strong economic growth

11. The new skills required for innovation

4. Benefits of Innovation Education for Students

Innovation education has emerged out as a demanding subject to be mastered by young students.
With each passing day, as the jobs are getting limited owing to numerous reasons such as
technological advancements and population growth, Innovation option can be seen as a significant
career option among the current generation. Contributing significantly to economic growth,
Innovation also generates numerous job perspectives. As a result of which, it has always been
encouraged by intellectuals to motivate the young mind to start a business of their own. To make
the students aware of the possible benefits of being an entrepreneur, a basic Innovation program
should be incorporated in the regular curriculum as a mandatory subject. This initiative will not only
boost the interest of the students to go for personal business meanwhile ditching the traditional 9 to
5 jobs. This basic education will not only help them embracing any upcoming opportunities to be
successful entrepreneurs but also tackle the adversities successfully in the future.

Something vital is missing from our schools. If we really want to prepare students to be successful
in a 21st century global economy, we need to be teaching them Innovation.

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Courses on Innovation have been available in higher education for years, and in recent years, have
appeared in more high schools. As with teaching a language, if we want this skill to become part of
a student's DNA, we must introduce it at the youngest possible age.

1. Enhances Creativity: Creative people always take a different approach to a problem and
that’s what makes a major difference. By encouraging creativity, innovation, and collaboration
the Innovation moulds the students into an abler individual strong enough to face the reality
of the outside world. Apart from the degrees and certifications, the students will have the
much-needed experience to start their journey in the market with a strong foundation.

2. Critical Thinking The ability to think critically is essential to your success in the world of
business. Unfortunately, it’s not something that is being nurtured in the traditional schools.
Why is this important? A company is not something bound to run smoothly forever, especially
today, when markets are more volatile than ever. Not to mention the harsh competition.
Learning Innovation exposes students to numerous opportunities to learn how to think
critically and analyse the pieces on the board. Being aware of all the important factors and
seeing how they affect each other is the foundation of a smart decision-making process.
This is not something that can be learned from a book. Students have to be exposed to real-
world examples and learn from their own experience.
3. Students need more opportunities for creativity, innovation, and collaboration in
schools. As testing and standards take over our education system, opportunities for students
to create, innovate, collaborate, and demonstrate proficiency or mastery in real-life ways
become scarcer. Innovation education not only encourages, but also requires students to be
creative, to innovate, and to collaborate with others.

4. Develops Problem Solving and Identification Capability: Problem-solving and problem

identification are two separate things. Students through years of practice may develop their
problem-solving skills but to identify the problem much before its arrival and taking necessary
precautions to tackle it differentiates a successful entrepreneur from the rest of the mass.

5. Boosts Leadership Quality: The world is always in need of a good leader for guidance. The
students who are interested to make a difference will certainly succeed in paving a different
pathway. While learning about Innovation skills at a younger age, the students tend to
incorporate new skills and start thinking like a leader. Beneficial specifically for women
entrepreneurs, the leadership skills will compel them to create their own identity by mitigating
the existing gender gap in the corporate world.

6. Prepares the Students for an Uncertain Future: If we research a little bit, we can very
well realize that the jobs once existed decades ago, are nowhere to be found in the present
scenario. In the volatile and dynamic market, new technologies are advancing in each passing
day and the current generation is progressing towards a future without any certainty. They
might take years to master a particular trade or skill but with time it might disappear from the

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market resulting in havoc in student’s careers. By learning about Innovation, one door will
always be open for venturing into, if the things do not turn out as expected.

Our world is changing rapidly and we are voyaging steadily towards a generation equipped
with more technical knowledge and advancement. The future belongs to the innovators and
leaders. Our education system needs to adapt accordingly. Basic Innovation programs will
emerge as a path-breaker and trend-setter proving quite a beneficial initiative for future
generations.

We can't predict the job market and economy our students will enter. Therefore, we really
can’t predict what content our students need in order to be successful after they leave our
schools. We know without a doubt, though, that our students need skills that will allow them
to navigate uncertain waters and chart their own paths. Innovation education teaches these
skills. Innovation education equips students to seek out problem-solving opportunities,
empathize with others, think creatively, take risks, accept failure as part of the growth process,
and appreciate the correlation between hard work and success.

7. Students need to learn how to identify problems or needs before they learn
problem-solving skills. Problem-solving has been all the rage in education for years. The
problem with the way we have traditionally taught problem-solving in schools is that problems
are already set up or defined by someone else (i.e., the teacher, the test writer, the textbook
company). In the real world, problems get fixed only when the problems have been properly
identified. Therefore, students need to learn both how to identify problems, and how to
identify and solve the right problems. If a student identifies a problem incorrectly or solves
the wrong problem, the solution to the problem has no value.

8. The world needs students who are looking to make a difference. This truth is self-
evident. Entrepreneurs, by definition, want to make a difference. In the business sense,
entrepreneurs seek to solve problems, meet needs, and ease pain or difficulty as a means of
selling products or services. In the social sense, entrepreneurs seek to solve problems because
of the impact ideas and solutions can make on human beings or on the environment. Either
way, students trained in Innovation education enter the world not only trained to identify
problems that need solving, but also determined to creatively solve problems, meet needs,
and make the world a better place.

The future belongs to the innovators and creators, and Innovation education serves as a great
incubator for the types of creative, innovative ideas our students and our world need in the
21st century.

9. Nurtures Personal Growth and Development Studying Innovation benefits students and
learners from different social and economic backgrounds because it teaches people to
cultivate unique skills and think outside the box. Moreover, it creates opportunity, instils
confidence, ensures social justice and stimulates the economy. Innovation education also
provides budding entrepreneurs with the skills and knowledge to come up with business

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ideas and develop their own ventures. And this includes helping them to learn about core
business areas such as finance, sales, marketing, management and accounting, not to
mention, broader ranging skills such as adaptability, effective communication, and confidence.

10. Tap into Unrealized Talents Standard education programs ranging from elementary
schools to universities are optimized to reflect the “education for everyone” model. While the
idea behind this movement is great and essentially good, it doesn’t mean that it brings out
the best in the students. Many students float away from their talents because they are pushed
to study maths, history, or the arts.

Learning Innovation is very different from learning anything else. The very concept of the
program is to help the students identify their strengths and talents and to work on improving
them.

11. Risk is Something to Live with Another important lesson that Innovation programs teach
students is that risk is something natural, something that we have to live with, and something
that has to be managed. There is no other school program that teaches this.
In fact, if we are being honest, most of us have been thought throughout our education that
we need to stay away from the risks and that certainty is the best path to take.
In the world of business, risk is a common occurrence. And to be able to succeed in it, you
have to work on your character traits – risk-taking and persistence. An Innovation program
fosters these character traits. This is why it’s beneficial for students when they find themselves
in a real-life situation.

5. Previous Similar Projects achieved

Client name Gallery

Sibanye Stillwater
We have done 3 groups of 10 candidates so far
and we have 15 delegates booked for July
2024.

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6. Employability Skills Achieved

Problem solving Adaptability Collaboration Resource /time Data & information

management management skills

62% of recruiting Companies look for Time-management is In the 21st century,

Collaboration is one of the
professionals identify people who can quickly part of a larger skill set, information is the new
sought-after employability
problem solving as a adjust to the ever- often referred to as currency.
skills, well-organized
skill that gets you hired, shifting business resource management, Sometimes a single
teams can achieve much
Companies face many landscape. where resources are piece of data can
more than any of its
obstacles. Those better understood as time, become a make or
members could if they
able to cope with New technologies, new effort, and others. One’s break factor for an
went solo.
challenges will thrive. kinds of competition, inability to plan time entire organization.
Those less able will new business models— efficiently, results having
Collaboration means:
ultimately fail. all these require you to problems with delivering Therefore, its clear
•being able to work with
•analysing facts and think on your feet and results. employees look for
people of different
figures have the courage to people who can:
backgrounds, ages,
•defining challenges propose new, yet-to-be- They will know how to:
religions, and political
•devising contingency tested solutions. •plan the use of •find the right
options
plans available resources information in any
If you are open-minded •recognizing each team
•assessing processes (time, effort, people, medium
and like to learn, you member’s strengths and
•creating and money, etc.) •organize it in a
will draw conclusions weaknesses to assign
implementing tasks accordingly •establish task or meaningful way
solutions from your mistakes to project period •analyse it and draw
invent new, more •accepting
accountability for the •set schedules and conclusions
efficient ways of milestones
results •communicate it to
performing your tasks.
•resolving conflicts •Prioritizing others
within the team •Delegating
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7. Other Benefits

Individual level Organizational level Societal level

Job creation More individuals are Growing organizations Innovation and

needed that are create more jobs entrepreneurship are
willing and capable to primary paths to growth
create job growth and job creation

Economic Innovation can give Organizational renewal Renewal processes are

success individuals economic is fundamental to every fundamental to the vitality
success firm’s long-term success of economies

Globalization, People need Entrepreneurial firms A deregulated and flexible

innovation entrepreneurial skills play a crucial role in market requires people with
and renewal and abilities to thrive changing market higher-level general skills
in an ever-changing structures
world

Joy, Creation / value Employee creativity and Economic wealth of nations

engagement, creation / creativity is joy is essential for the correlates with happiness of
creativity a main source of joy performance of new and its citizens
and pride for people existing organizations

Societal People can make a Corporations can Social Innovation addresses

challenges difference to society, collaborate with small problems in society that the
and marginalized social Innovation market economy has failed
people can achieve initiatives to create to address
economic success social value
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8. Contact Details

Contact Person Email Address Contact Address

Contact Person Email: Location

Mr Booker Nyaundi pbconsultantsp@gmail.com 186 Joubert Street,

Cell : 063 559 4711 info@pythonstraining.co.za
Rustenburg
Tel : 014 592 6950 marketingpbconsultants@gmail.com
0300

Postal Address

Postal Address
P.0 BOX 762
RUSTENBURG
NORTH WEST
0300

9. Closing Remarks
We would like to express my deepest gratitude for your generous support and
giving us this juncture to take your time off your busy
schedules and read through this proposal, to share this
national issue with you, l hope you will take my book
into consideration and work as alliances.

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