Bottom Line Innovation

After the workshop, you will be able to:

• Employ eight different strategies to establish the right environment for innovation
• Focus on key challenges and formulate a powerful challenge statement to focus your efforts
• Use the Bottom Line Innovation process map to guide the creation and implementation of innovative ideas and solutions
• Identify the ideal future and develop opportunity statements to shape and open possibilities
• Brainstorm individually and collectively to begin idea generation
• Go beyond brainstorming by using five pattern-breaking techniques to generate hundreds of new ideas
• Pool ideas and select key ones using consistent evaluation criteria
• Assess the relative risks and benefits of each idea to determine feasibility and establish priorities
• Build action plans and gain commitment from the implementation team
• Obtain support from others for your ideas and implementation plans

Benefits for the individual

Expanded thinking abilities beyond limited, traditional approaches

A clear focus and approach for tackling business issues in innovative ways

Generation of many more ideas, better scrutiny of selected ideas

A more results-oriented method for selling ideas internally

Understand and be able to immediately apply pattern-breaking techniques which increase the capability to generate innovative ideas

Benefits for the organization

• A systematic process for innovation to address business needs and issues
• Translates vision, mission and organizational imperatives into an actionable process
• A means for building and leveraging your organization’s intellectual capital
• A process for making innovation repeatable and sustainable
• Improves the quantity and quality of innovative ideas