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Innovation Workshop White Paper

The innovation game is challenging for the majority of companies, despite it being a well-recognized imperative. Our white paper is a brief examination of some of the challenges facing companies trying to deliver the promise of innovation, as well as a brief explanation of how our approach delivers results, with some examples from our client work.

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Innovation Workshops

Deliver Innovative Solutions to your most challenging Business Problems

Innovation doesn't emerge from lofty corporate vision statements or imperatives and mandates. "We need to be more innovative!" is a meaningless plea, usually delivered by those devoid of vision and lacking clear understanding of how innovation actually occurs.

Generating ideas is called "creativity." Innovation is the implementation of one or more ideas which solve a specific problem. Innovation begins with a solid understanding of what the problem to solve actually is, and follows with a means of exploring and experimenting within both the problem and solution spaces. The result is a viable solution that matters.

Innovation isn't optional.

it is critical.

You need innovation to be more than just great ideas that go nowhere. You need your innovations to solve your most pressing problems and shift the needle for your business.

 

Our innovation workshops have helped companies identify, refine, and solve some of their most challenging issues.

You start by focusing on the actual problems, a critical step to delivering innovative solutions. You also create clear, well-defined pathways to move solutions from the concept phase thru execution.

The Challenge Is Clear

Companies unconfident in their ability to innovate.

78%

CEOs who feel their company cannot innovate.

55%

Companies who do not have a process to innovate.

35%

The Need Is Real

Executives who feel innovation is critical for growth.

84%

Organizations considering innovation a top-3 priority.

70%

Innovation Workshop info deck

Our info deck is a brief, 10-slide PDF with information on workshop options, outcomes, and prices. It includes redacted case studies from previous workshops.

Where an Innovation Workshop could help

Challenging Problem, No Answers

You have a significant, challenging problem which could change the game for your business, if solved. The more intractable, the better.

Inability to Focus on Solutions

Many companies engage creative methods to generate ideas. Solutions, however, progress from ideation and experimentation into execution. Simple creativity is not enough.

Fast-Paced, Multi-Threaded Environment

Too many companies today have too many people working on too many competing priorities. For innovation to work, people must be able to focus and work the problem-solution space.

Ideas Get Shelved

Even when problems are well understood and creative solutions are generated, they go nowhere. Your ideas need a clear pathway to get from inception to execution.

Innovation is a Hackathon

Hackathons are fun. Too often, however, they are just explorations of ideas. Those ideas are often shelved, never to progress, or are delivered, but never provide value, because they were neat ideas, not solutions to meaningful problems.

Innovation is Leader-Directed

Innovation comes from everywhere. It is not the sole purview of leadership. You need to bring the right people together in the right place for the right problem. Leaders provide vision & constraints, but people build solutions together.

Start Delivering Innovation. Today.

We have led workshops delivering solutions to 3X production, clean and reuse precious resources, and leverage emerging technology capabilities such as Computer Vision and AI to create safer environments by reducing worker exposure to hazards.

 

This is only the start.

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You Would Work With Us If...
  • You're seeking coaches with actual, real-world leadership and organizational experience;
  • You want a partner who can provide multiple offerings and work with you in multiple ways;
  • You're seeking evidence-based approaches, grounded in research, versus simple, case-based (ineffective) solutions which purport to solve every problem, everywhere;
  • You want more than a staff of new college grads who simply rebrand pre-existing PowerPoint presentations;
  • You want more than a representative of some software solution who sells it as the sole source of capability;
  • You're smart enough to know that a single framework or simple approach will not solve all your problems, and you need a partner who thinks that way, too;
  • You need a partner who has worked in a variety of environments in multiple domains across industries;
You Would Not Work With Us If...
  • You are looking for a simple, off-the-shelf response to a pervasive, challenging problem;
  • You want to pay a consultant, ignore them, and then blame them later (there are companies who provide precisely this service);
  • You just want a rebranded, 400 slide PowerPoint presentation to show you're "working the problem";
  • You already have the answer to your issues and you need someone to (a) lend their credibility and/or (b) implement it for you;
  • You do not actually want to grow, develop, or improve your people, teams, and organization;
  • You think growth and improvement is something everyone else needs;
  • You want to be able to say you're doing things differently while still just doing the same, old things;

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