The Center for Innovation Excellence at Coles college of Business can satisfy your huger for innovation with research-based offerings that are guaranteed to please any taste.
They are provocative, practical and productive. Most of all, they are very affordable and we are here to be of service to you.
A recent study by Bain & Co., finds that innovation-driven firms tend to grow at 3 times the rate (84% vs. 28% 3-year compounded growth) of firms with a lesser propensity to be innovators. There clearly are tangible rewards for being an innovation-driven enterprise.
Course #1 Use this diagnostic tool to assess your company’s or department’s present innovation scorecard.
We send you a link which you pass it on to your employees and they complete a 32 question online profile anonymously. It takes no more than 10 minutes to complete and it is based on initial research among 513 companies with 2,000 or more employees which identified “10 key factors or drivers” of innovation. These 10 factors are essential ingredients and points of difference for “best-in-class” innovation-driven enterprises. They are:
Management Support // Culture of the organization // Communications about risk and failure// Vision for innovation// Metrics used// Satisfaction with results// Hiring Practices//Budgets available// Rewards offered// Systemic to the entire enterprise
The investment is only $3,750 per group tested. We can accommodate any size group you might suggest. Reduced prices for multiple groups are available.
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Course #2 How to become a Best-in-Class Innovation-Driven Enterprise.
Once the diagnostic test has been administered to different departments of the organization or to the entire enterprise we suggest course corrections where needed.
How? By looking at the 10 factors that make for a best-in-class innovation-driven enterprise we select with you the 2-3 areas that you wish to place interventions and suggest one or two half-day idea generating sessions custom-designed to your business model (your sandbox) and your corporate needs.
These boot camps are designed to create ownership and commitment by the participants so that results can be ownable and measurable. The investment is only $2,500 per half-day session
Course #3. How do your team members prefer to solve problems creatively?
Today innovation is vital for every organization. Yet each of us approaches problem solving differently. Understanding one’s particular approach toward innovating can enable success in our ever-changing world.
FourSight, the thinking preference profile, gives teams and organizations insight into each individual’s preferred way of clarifying, generating, developing, and implementing ideas.
How? By asking a series of simple questions on line. Each has been carefully developed and thoroughly researched to provide a clear perspective of how you can innovate with others most effectively.
The investment is only $35 per person
Read more at http://foursightonline.com/
Looking forward to discussing further with you,
Harry Vardis hvardis@kennesaw.edu and Gary Selden Ph.D. gselden@kennesaw.edu Tel 404 285 1086
Go for the gold. Full day boot camp programs.
These programs deliver more than the Creative Problem Solving process and the tools of the process. What we cover reaches deep inside the individual and strengthen his/ hers analytical and creative thinking skills.
We demonstrate how to use learning styles that allow for more harmonious relationships in teams, team interaction, collaboration, group work and creative thinking, time compression and performance, learning how to demystify innovation, using one’s creative powers etc. We cover the Person, Process, Place (environment) principles that promote innovation.
Above all we drive home the point where one can understand how to deliver more value to the customer and increase the benefit to the company.
This program will help raise the success levels in identifying and implementing great new ideas with the right business model.
Available in 1-day and 2-day formats ranging from $4,000 to $6,500 only.
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The Innovation Assessor is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.