Every decade, as the Silicon Valley heats up and produces a new wave of apparently successful, fast moving start-ups, corporate world re-discovers the need to innovate.
Most often, they delegate a happy, chosen few to open a representation office in the Silicon Valley. Those remote office representatives often lead an "innovation"task force. Mainly, they are tasked with being the porous "information membranes" in touch with the local small start-ups and networks of innovators, to bring back to the "mother-ship" the potential opportunities to invest in, emulate, partner with, or, more often than not, squash.
However, those organizations fail at doing the real, hard, patient, long term work of creating the conditions to successful innovation.
Also, mid size companies are in a difficult spot, stuck between the early, fun, adventurous days of their inception, and the glass ceiling of growth, with difficult access to capital.
Innovation is essential for them, to reinvent themselves, maybe "pivot". All busy with the daily running of the business to ensure continuity, they have a hard time creating and nurturing the space necessary to foster creative destruction, reinvention and innovation.
I posit that looking at innovation management in terms of resources, budgets, innovation spaces, is the wrong approach.
Indeed, the HEART of innovation is creative thinking.
Hence, I help you review, assess and analyze the thinking patterns, decision making processes of your organization.
- How does your CEO get information about the market?
- How does he talk to the customer service representative who's on the phone with the client?
- How does the information flow between the two?
- How is the veteran of the company, with years of experience, listened to when he says that something could be done better?
Through dedicated seminars, we get to the HEART or innovation and unleash the existing creativity potential which has been locked for years in the subconscious of your organization.