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Fostering a Culture of Innovation

This program examines strategies and tactics necessary for fostering a climate of growth. You'll learn best practices from leading organizations that encourage teams to embrace innovation. You'll also see why accepting risk is essential to innovation efforts, and learn how to differentiate a "smart" risk from a "bad" risk.

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What?

This program includes two eLearning courses, four tools, and three research reports.

Why?

You'll be able to:

  • Design a plan for creating a culture of innovation
  • Define, distinguish, and assess risks, and effectively communicate such evaluation to teams
  • Develop action plans in a way that fosters support and motivates employees

Who?

Organizational Leaders & High Performers

 

Included Courses

IN140: How to Create a Climate for Innovation

Learn four key elements of creating a climate for innovation, and find out how you can immediately implement new programs that will jumpstart creativity in your organization.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Format:
eLearning
Tags:
Climate, Culture, Employee Engagement, Leadership

IN242: Define Your Innovation Risk-Tolerance

Learn to implement smart methods for defining risk and setting boundaries that enable teams to better embrace innovation efforts.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Format:
eLearning
Tags:
Climate, Culture, Leadership, Open to Change

Included Research & Tools

Advanced Guides

Advanced Guide: How to Take Better Risks During Innovation

This 26-page tool will help you learn how leading innovators define smart risks. You'll also craft a strategy for smart risk-taking in your own organization, as well as arm yourself with information and tools to garner support for your efforts.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Idea Management, Ideas, Leadership, Smart Risks
Case Studies

Case Study: Google

Google has a strong history of innovation. Just look at the creative and useful products and services that seem to literally tumble out of their innovation pipeline—Google Maps, Google Talk, and Google Body Browser to name just a few. Find out what's behind this prolific innovator in this case study.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Climate, Consistent Innovation, Culture, Labs
Cheat Sheets

Cheat Sheet: Jumpstart Your Climate of Innovation

In this fast-paced world, only organizations that adapt with the changing marketplace are able to remain successful. You need to maintain a climate where employees are encouraged to innovate in a continuous and consistent manner. This handy list contains pointers for making innovation part of your DNA.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Climate, Culture, Driving Change, Leadership
Essentials Guides

How to Foster an Innovative Climate

Learn from the leaders when it comes to making innovation part of your organization's DNA. This 35-page guide and accompanying 9-page workbook analyzes best practices from top innovators, such as leading by example, encouraging smart risk-taking, and supporting an environment that rewards productive change.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Climate, Culture, Leadership, Team-Building
Program-Building Tools

Program-Building Tool: Define a Smart Risk

By defining your appetite for risk, you set the boundaries of comfort for management and offer innovation teams the opportunity to experiment within a framework. This eight-page tool helps you articulate specific limits around what defines an acceptable risk when it comes to innovation in your organization.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Planning, Strategy, Structuring
Resource Lists

Resource List: futurethink Bookshelf

Take a break from the computer screen and curl up with a book, while still working on your innovation capabilities. We've created a compilation of our favorite books—some timely and others timeless—that are sure to spark some inspiration.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Innovation Education, Innovation Sources, Knowledge Gathering, Strategy
Resource Lists

Resource List: Open Collaboration

"Collaboration" has become one of the most talked-about concepts in the world of innovation. Gain better insight into the benefits and practice of open collaboration with this valuable list of links.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Collaboration, Ideas, Partnerships

Client Quotes

  • “If you don't make innovation a strategic part of your business plan and you don't drive that into the culture, I don't think you'll have a strong innovation pipeline.”
    Mark Hausfeld, Innovation Manager, Global Business Services, Procter & Gamble Procter & Gamble
  • “Innovation is deliberate, if done well. There is a science and process to it. futurethink has done their homework to provide a wealth of practical knowledge to their customers.”
    Senior Vice President of Innovation, Wells Fargo Wells Fargo
  • “futurethink's research and 'how-to' tools have been essential to building our innovation program.”
    Cindy Morgan, Innovation Manager, New England Federal Credit Union New England Federal Credit Union
  • “futurethink's proven methodology, research, and tools help ensure we're always ready to meet the evolving public service challenges of tomorrow.”
    Sandy Stosz, Rear Admiral, United States Coast Guard United States Coast Guard
  • “futurethink is always thinking ahead about learning and 'innovate' it before we ask! Their programs have been a huge success with our teams.”
    Director of Learning & Development, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Sonovian Pharmaceuticals
  • “futurethink's sessions included excellent examples and energizing exercises that brought innovation to life. They got us to look at our business with new eyes.”
    Joan P. Lawrence-Ross, Chief Learning Officer, AXA
  • “The futurethink team did an outstanding job in designing and facilitating an innovation event for our senior leaders, many of who regarded this as the best innovation workshop that they had ever been a part of. I would recommend futurethink to any organization that is looking for clear and actionable pathways to Innovation.”
    Wayne Pethrick, Director, Marketing and Consumer Insights, Pitney Bowes Pitney Bowes
  • “If you don't innovate, be creative and look to the future and the possibilities of what will evolve over time, you will cease to be relevant.”
    Randy Voss, Senior Manager, Global Strategy & Business Development, Whirlpool Whirlpool
  • “futurethink made the topic of innovation, which means different things to different people, real, meaningful, and actionable.”
    Steven Rubinow, Chief Information Officer, NYSE Euronext NYSE Euronext Logo
  • “We need to look beyond our organization's walls to innovate.”
    Mehmoon Khan, Global Leader, Innovation Process Development, Unilever Unilever
  • “futurethink is enabling us to build critical innovation skills and share best practices across our global organization.”
    Jeff Honious, Vice President of Innovation, Reed Elsevier Reed Elsevier
  • “futurethink made my leadership team think in new ways and helped us develop winning business ideas right in the room. My team now embraces innovation rather than fearing it.”
    Mary Fennoglio, Managing Director, Citigroup Corporate Investment Bank Citigroup
  • “Any innovative company must develop processes for understanding and responding to consumer needs in a very focused way. Otherwise, they're just inventors, they're not necessarily innovators.”
    Tony Tomazic, Director of Consumer Innovations, Humana Humana
  • “The futurethink workshop not only provided an incredible jolt of energy to our collective innovation efforts and established the common understanding of innovation concepts, but it was also a wonderful team-building event. I don’t think it could have been organized and conducted any better.”
    Michael Ripa, Manager, FRI Infomatics
  • “futurethink is the innovation expert. They fine-tune their training to our clients' needs. I'm constantly looking for new opportunities to engage them in our work.”
    Brian Weberg, Director, National Conference of State Legislatures
  • “Working with futurethink was a very rewarding experience for our team. They brought a great combination of provocative outside ideas, market perspective and a program design that challenged us to think of our own business in more innovative ways.”
    Jim Daly, Vice President of Human Resources, Standard & Poor's Standard & Poor's