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Ideas Training Programs

Ideas

Learn tactical methods to develop original ideas that drive business value. Each of the four Ideas Training Programs listed below features a specific approach to generating innovative ideas that will help you improve your business. These approaches will challenge your mind and help you and your team think differently to drive results. 

Future-Thinking and Disruptive Innovation

Develop winning ideas so that your business can remain competitive in the years to come utilizing the strategies and tactics provided in this program. Start by gaining insight into the way smart organizations have differentiated themselves by challenging industry conventions. You’ll also learn how to implement forward-thinking techniques to help anticipate and plan for the future of your organization.

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Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Program includes:
2 Courses, 3 Tools, and 1 Research Report
Format:
Online Program
Tags:
Disruptive, Ideas, Ideation, Trend-Watching

Enhancing and Improving Existing Offerings

Explore ways to gain more value from your current offerings–and generate ideas for new businesses in the process. See examples of how top organizations have achieved incremental success simply by tweaking existing products or services, and learn how you can apply these techniques to do the same.

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Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Program includes:
4 Courses, 3 Tools, and 1 Research Report
Format:
Online Program
Tags:
Creativity, Enhancement, Ideas, Incremental

Leveraging Partnerships and Customers to Innovate

You can achieve better results and take products to market faster by leveraging customers and partners. Learn how to uncover latent customer needs and tap into unrecognized opportunities with potential partners, both of which can lead to fruitful new beginnings and a healthier bottom line.

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Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Program includes:
2 Courses, 4 Tools, and 3 Research Reports
Format:
Online Program
Tags:
Creative Problem Solving, Customers, Ideas, Partnering

Facilitating Productive Brainstorms

Find out what it takes to lead an effective brainstorm. Learn how to engage employees around ideation and conduct a powerful and meaningful brainstorm session. Facilitate better brainstorm results by executing these best practices before, during, and after the session.

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Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Program includes:
1 Course and 3 Tools
Format:
Online Program
Tags:
Brainstorming, Ideas, Ideation, Leadership

Client Quotes

  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “We need to look beyond our organization's walls to innovate.”
    Mehmoon Khan, Global Leader, Innovation Process Development, Unilever Unilever
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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'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 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
  • “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