Organizations need to stay sure-footed and keep pace with their markets while developing new business, marketing, R&D, and operational strategies. Often the road to sound practices is fraught with trial-and-error methods or blocked by company inertia costing millions of dollars in revenue and lost ground to competitors.
Creativity as a Corporate Resource
Creativity is key to planning, and while some people are more adept at managing the creative process, others feel encumbered—and sometimes intimidated—by the belief that it is an unwieldy, abstract process. The Innovative Thinking System dispels the myth that creativity exists only in gifted or talented business people.
The program takes a broad range of proven techniques and aligns them into a simple, manageable path for participants to follow in order to generate abundant new concepts, organize and filter them down to the single idea most likely to succeed, then hone the top idea into a useful tool, and implement it as a viable new initiative.
Once learned, this system brings executives, managers, and individual contributors to the next level of innovation. They become experts at drawing from their creativity to react progressively, quickly and positively not only to emerging market trends, but also to almost any organizational situation, from treading through complex negotiations to managing team conflicts and project crises.
Development Opportunities
Innovative Thinking System Workshop
A 4-day program that builds five fundamental skill sets at the basis of successful innovation:
- Divergent thinking techniques to generate abundant new ideas;
- Convergent thinking techniques to synthesize new alternatives from existing ideas;
- Screening techniques to select the ideas most likely to succeed;
- Polishing techniques to increase the probability of success; and
- Mapping techniques to create workable implementation plans.
Innovating Thinking Certification
This program trains participants to facilitate all the learning activities in the Innovative Thinking System Workshop.
