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Aug. 14-15
Enhancing Innovation for Improved Business Success
This workshop provides a broad and
comprehensive set of approaches to significantly expand the
level and breadth of innovation in your company. Most
companies innovate far below their potential. This
workshop provides you with new ways to approach a much higher level of
innovation capacity and depth to improve your overall
business success. Innovation can be driven from many
perspectives. This course helps you organize and understand
those perspectives and helps you to drive innovation from
new, powerful and unexpected places. This is a very
practical course with a view to immediate application.
Aug. 28, 29
Managing the
Fuzzy Front End of New Projects
Trains you to use our highly systematic
approach in the design and layout of the definitional phase
of projects to maximize both innovation potential and
overall project success. A unique and powerful course for
both new and advanced project managers, engineers and their
managers, product marketing people involved in product
conceptualization and any others who need much more
effective ways to coalesce and condense the mass of ideas
and factors into a product and a plan. This course, (in its
fifth year but continuously evolving), consistently gets top
reviews from its attendees. The past two years we have
integrated Lean Concepts and many elements from The Toyota
Way into the course.
Sept. 17-18 2008
Program
Management Workshop:
Achieving
Improved Business Results with Program Management
The June session of this course
was a dramatic success with all participants rating it as
"delightful" or "exceeded expectations". This course is
directed at both aspiring and mature project managers and
program managers who want a comprehensive coverage by
world-class experts in Program Management. Successful
innovation depends on successful program management so
innovate better ™
with
excellence in your
program management.
Next Session - Sept 2008
Flexible Product Development:
Building Agility for Changing Markets
This course will help you
develop ways to adapt to changing requirements and emergent,
innovation-enhancing discoveries well into the development
process without significantly impacting the overall business
constraints.
OUR
WORKSHOPS ARE DESIGNED FOR YOUR SUCCESS:
Here's
how...
Our
workshops are purposely designed using best practices in
instructional design for long-lasting effect and high
retention.
The quality of our take-home
materials is excellent, and they are designed to be used as
reference books and project guidelines for a long time after
the course, not stored on a bookshelf to gather dust.
You won't find endless pages
of black and white bulleted power point lists, two or
four to a page in our books. Instead you will find colorful,
highly organized and reference-able materials with many
clear illustrations, examples and diagrams. The sections are
tabbed and indexed and the pages are well explained, not
just lists of points.
We don't
believe in Spray & Pray Training:
We support you with follow-on
communities of interest, consulting help, assessments and booster-shot programs to ensure
deep learning and full application of the powerful materials
taught.
Our
goal is Helping You Win with
Innovation™.
That's our tag line and it's exactly the same as our
mission: to help you succeed at whatever your goal
is...using our unique, innovation-enhancing support.
Why "Frameworks"?
Why did we
call our company
Innovation Frameworks
® ?
Because it
perfectly describes what we provide to help you Innovate
Better™
. Frameworks are structures and forms that help you design,
build and organize things, without constraining you too
tightly. They provide some organization, structure and
assistance to give you a head start, but still are much less
prescriptive than processes, so they don't constrain
creativity.
Our
frameworks encapsulate proven and well developed principles
of preparation, creativity, innovation methods,
innovation-friendly project design and other critical
elements to help you save time and avoid thrashing. Yet a
framework allows you the freedom to adapt, scale and fit
your plan to your unique situation and ideas.
Not to
worry... we do also provide plenty of processes. But they
are organized as a toolkit, not a mandatory structure.
True
innovation requires that. |
Consulting & Projects
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Analysis and Planning
Analyzing Current Problems and Situations
Creating New
Vision and a Program to Implement It
Program Layout &
Design
VALUE-DRIVEN INNOVATION
Lean Engineering and Design:
driving innovation with value, flow and waste elimination
Value Analysis
for Cost Innovation
Achieving
Value with Creative plus Critical Thinking
Innovative
Process Improvement
Improving
Business Processes with Innovative Methods and Frameworks
Guiding
Innovation and Business with Metrics
Creating
a Culture of Innovation
Development Programs
Facilitating Team Improvement Project
Driving
Constant Business Improvement with Metrics
Creating a
Lean AND Innovative Environment
Graduating
to Program Management
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