The Business & Process Innovation Summit
October 16-19, 2006 - Hotel del Coronado, CA
The Executive Retreat on Innovation
October 16, 2006
A full day workshop that will teach you the latest methods and tools for creating world class innovation skills. This session will build your skills and capabilities in the areas of innovation, with a proven set of tools and individualized analysis that has been deployed in many of the world's largest organizations.
The Executive Retreat on Innovation will focus on what is fast becoming one of the core competencies for survival in the global economy. As globalization reshapes the competitive landscape, individuals and organizations are realizing that growing their innovative capacity is the only way to build leadership and sustain it.
Can you list five different methods or tools that you use on a regular basis to create innovation in yourself, your people, and your organization? Can you do that? Don't be dissuaded. Most people can't get beyond brainstorming. We unfortunately regard innovation as a combination of serendipity, mysticism, and brute force - but there is more, much more. Innovation is a process. It involves steps, tools, and creative problem solving skills that can be taught.
With these exclusive tools, you and your organization can increase your ability to deal with higher levels of uncertainty and achieve a renewed emphasis on core competency. The results of process-driven innovation are measured in faster execution, shorter time to market, better success rates with new ideas, higher margins, more satisfied customers, and ultimately, a more competitive organization with more marketable skills.
In this fast-paced retreat, you will:
- Learn the core skills needed to become a master at innovation,
- Take a self-assessment test to determine your innovative profile,
- Learn how to assess the innovative profile of others,
- Review multiple collaborative techniques and methods to take you well beyond brainstorming,
- Learn how other organizations are leveraging their innovative capabilities,
- Receive the tools and methods for team-based creative problem solving.
Most of all, you will have an inordinate amount of fun participating in all of this.
Join us for a day that promises to reinvent what innovation means to you and your organization.
We have built a series of workshops for you to learn these skills that will push your creativity to the limit and help you go back to your organization with a wealth of knowledge, skill and confidence which you can immediately transfer to practical tasks and challenges.
The Innovation Workshops
What You Will Learn:
- Define your own personal style preferences in relation to solving problems and managing change,based on the VIEW assessment,
- Describe the implications of problem-solving style for individuals, teams, and groups,
- Define creative and critical thinking and give examples of their importance in your professional setting,
- Identify and give examples of four guidelines to follow when generating options, and four guidelines to follow when focusing options,
- Name, explain, and apply five proven tools to help you generate more options, a greater variety of options, and options that are novel or unusual,
- Name, explain, and apply five proven tools to help you to analyze and refine new options and to turn interesting possibilities into useful solutions.
The Program Offers You Many Important Benefits. You Will:
- Learn helpful tools that can be used individually,or in a group,to deal effectively with many different kinds of tasks and challenges,
- Increase your ability to create fresh new possibilities and put them to work immediately in your own personal life and your business, profession, or organization,
- Discover new ways to work more effectively and productively with your co-workers and clients,
- Understand the importance of creativity and innovation in the workplace with supporting metrics and business examples.