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Place For Innovation Discoveries It does not matter what you want to achieve through workshops, seminars, training or innovation dialogues, we can provide the stimulating environment to bring these together. The workshop or dialogue itself, although important needs commitment and follow up. It has to have clear objectives.Here are some opening thoughts: How can we all broaden our perspectives? What gives us a safe space to think and develop? What allows us to ‘synthesize’ learning? What can be a stimulus for new … Continue reading “Finding Space for Discoveries”

Firstly we need to achieve Innovation Foresight It really is about knowing the needs, those that can be seen and articulated but also those that are the unmet needs, the jobs we are all struggling to complete but don’t have the ideal solutions to complete it without a lot of ‘spent’ energy and applying solutions designed for other issues. When we have foresight we need to look at both the external customer ones and to encourage the organizational ones that … Continue reading “Achieving Innovation Foresight and Seeing A New Core”

The Three Horizons can structure the mission and intent, it can frame the options, determine the resources and ‘paint’ the viewpoint of how to manage innovation across multiple horizons The workshop is introducing the multiple values and benefits this powerful methodology can offer for framing innovation. Why is it necessary? We so often struggle to articulate our innovation activity and then can’t seemingly project our plans into the future in consistent and coherent ways. We often lack the framing necessary. … Continue reading “The Value of the Three Horizon Workshop”

The Work Mat Approach This work mat approach illustrates our unique approach to ‘working out’ your solutions in novel ways. We need to ‘wrestle’ with the problems but in a creative way Getting a thorough any workout makes us all feel ‘fitter’. These can be brain storming, structured design or collectively working through a difficult problem.  We use our ‘work mat’ approach that helps you ‘wrestle to the ground’ your unique challenges. We can tackle different problems through this work mat … Continue reading “Wrestling with a work mat approach wins”

Designing Unique Workshops Finding opportunities for Innovation and Growth is hard work. We design our workshops to meet your needs, to push the thinking and to generate new returns in innovation understanding. Our workshop are designed to help you need to think through many areas of productive innovation opportunity. For example: 1. Understand the trends and drivers in your industry as well as explore alternative perspectives allows you to look at not just ‘best practice’ but leading and emerging practice. … Continue reading “Designing Unique Workshops just for you!”

We need a crisis, a shock! A priority shift is required for innovation– in leadership, responsibility, accountability, overcoming the reluctance to innovate. “Even though it is important and we want to do innovation, we believe that there are many more important things in an organization to be done……..” As a result we do these more important things and by the time we come to the just important ones we have run out of time and we never do it.” “Unfortunately, … Continue reading “Innovation thrives at times of crisis, or should do”

Do you avoid that essential Sense of Renewal or attempt it in small incremental steps? Renewal needs to occur constantly; it needs to be embedded into your core activities. Are you looking for a structured approach to renewal and then being able to sustain it through innovation? How receptive are you to making the necessary changes demanded by difficult times, and can you really change? Taking a systematic and structured approach can re-equip you for a more innovative future by … Continue reading “A Sense of Renewal”

Balancing Risk & Opportunity Innovation is about two sides of the coin, risk and opportunity. You need risk and opportunity in different measures. We often like to call this the “yin and yang” of innovation. Some thoughts as you look at risk and opportunity for innovation to consider: 1. Recognize each side of the ‘coin’ enables better decisions 2. You seize better opportunities with confidence by balancing these two 3. Recognition means you allocate money more wisely 4. You achieve better … Continue reading “Are you balancing Risk & Opportunity”

Intrepreneurship or Entrepreneurship is all about getting the right environment to prosper and grow, to experiment and learn, to pivot and advance. The internal agent of change within an organization needs to be more an entrepreneur, ready and willing to champion and push for innovation so the organization succeeds. The difficulty for this to happen is often bound up in different organizational aspects that all need addressing including the culture, environment, the appetite for risk and reward. How can you … Continue reading “An Entrepreneurship Needs to Prosper”

Seeking out an Innovation Culture Knowing what constitutes an innovation culture is hard to define; it is always unique to the organisation. We believe we have some clear views to share with you on this. What do you want to achieve’ in creating a greater innovation culture? It is one of the most important areas to understand for innovation to thrive and be sustaining, We can really help on this through a structure approach It is a very different innovative world … Continue reading “Seeking out the new innovation culture”