Accredited Innovation Training Program (AITP)®
Accredited Innovation Training Program (AITP)®
An Accredited Innovation Training Program (AITP)® is a training program – typically either a single course or a relatively short series of related courses – that focuses on or touches on some facet of business innovation – and that has been fully verified and subsequently accredited by the Accreditation Center of Global Innovation Institute.
There is significant value in business and academic organizations having their Innovation and Innovation-related training programs accredited by IGI as an AITP®.
AITP® accreditation assures all affected stakeholders that the program has been thoroughly assessed by IGI and therefore its caliber and scope conform fully to IGI’s demanding accreditation standards. No other organization in the world prescribes this same level of accreditation standard in the field of business innovation as does IGI . Consequently, accreditation by the IGI Accreditation Center is the global standard for the accreditation of Innovation Training Programs.
Innovation Training Programs that have achieved accreditation with IGI will bear IGI’s AITP badge – IGI’s seal of assurance that the program is of a high caliber and is being delivered with excellence. They will also have their official Certificates of Completion issued by IGI.
This offers significant value, because Accredited Innovation Training Programs attract more students than do non-accredited programs, resulting in measurable economic value to the organizations delivering these programs.
IGI remains fully committed to pursuing excellence and continuous improvement in all activities relating to the IGI Accreditation Center and the IGI Accreditation Program. The AITP Guidebook provided on this page sets forth the policies, procedures, and standards used to assess the quality and scope of individual Innovation Training Programs, and to thereafter accredit them to IGI’s standards.
Organizations wishing to pursue accreditation of their Innovation Training Programs with IGI must submit to IGI the AITP Application with full supporting evidence. The IGI Accreditation Center will then undertake a formal assessment of the program, after which it will make its determination of the program’s accreditation worthiness.
Innovation Training Program Accreditation is valid for the life of the program, so long as the organization continues to submit its Annual Report to IGI each year, and its re-application every other year for the program’s biennial reassessment review (used to ensure its ongoing compliance with IGI’s eligibility requirements).
What Organizations Should Apply?
Any organization offering a training course, workshop, or equivalent learning vehicle (whether academic or professional) that has been properly designed, organized, supervised, and delivered to achieve a defined set of learning objectives pertaining in some way to business innovation may apply for GInI’s accreditation of that program.
If an organization offers multiple such programs, it must secure accreditation for each program separately and independently. Accreditation of any one of its programs does not infer accreditation of any of its other programs.
Benefits
Accreditation differentiates a program as being part of a select group of programs that accurately reflect and teach the disciplines of Business Innovation.
Accreditation provides affirmation of a program’s ongoing commitment to educational quality and continuous improvement.
Accreditation indicates peer recognition for achievement to a globally-recognized benchmark standard.