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“Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
—Margaret Mead
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Our features many innovation tools.
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teach the proven techniques of intentional innovation.
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help organizations weave innovation into their everyday activities and consistently
inspire the best from everyone on their team.
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are immersive, entertaining, no-holds-barred
experiences that deliver surprising new solutions.
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We’re located in Bend, Oregon’s historic Old Mill District.
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About: “Innovation Strategy Session”
“Working with Bob Newhart & the Innovation Center helped our group move away from what had become a traditional moment in time Retreat to a Strategy Session which invigorated all participants.”
—Michael J. Gonsalves, CEO
The Center, Bend
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Success Story: Free Radicals of Innovation DVD
Creative tools to break out and be true creative innovators!
Those participants in attendance were representatives of many departments of our business – product engineers, industrial designers, marketing managers, product managers, retail channel managers, marketing communications, financial advisors, accounting, customer service, manufacturing engineers, plant supervisors, etc. Overall, I believe many in attendance believed the video series made them look at their own business practices and reassess how they could introduce some of the creative tools to break out and be true creative innovators. I know many participants like the 6 “P”’s of innovation and the examples. I know our product development platform team members really enjoyed the segment about “suspending judgment” on ideas & products. I believe this video series allowed our platform teams to challenge our executive staff on the validity of using a “stage-gate” development process in evaluating potential innovative concepts, since many decision/judgments may not fall in the convenient “stage-gate” process and that the “stage-gate” process does not create a platform for generating new concepts and innovations. There were many chuckles about the segment illustrating that experience comes sometimes from bad judgment and that management should not crucify failures, but definitely learn from them. I can say that now many ideas and concepts are now coming from just about every facet of the business- ideas have flowed from the plant floor team members & from purchasing and channel colleagues to the product development teams on real consumer frustrations that we have been able to capitalize on with new innovative product. We have installed a “Raise the Bar” audit after many meetings, product launches, day-to-day interactions in training, communicating, etc. I also know our teams are trying to fully take advantage of opportunities that present themselves. The biggest and most important take-away is always keep observing our world for changes that can lead to opportunities. |
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