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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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What?

This program includes the following two courses, three tools, and one research report. 

Why?

You'll be able to:

  • Generate bigger, better ideas so that your organization can be a relevant and powerful force for years to come
  • Ideate and solve problems with critical business objectives in mind
  • Practice the art of breaking industry rules and challenging conventions

Who?

  • Organizational Leaders, High Performers, and Individual Contributors

Included Courses

IN221: Front End of Innovation

Discover the future-focused ideation techniques that will help you uncover and capitalize on the driving forces that will shape your business in the coming years.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Format:
eLearning
Tags:
Front End Innovation, Future Planning, Ideas

IN224: Disruptive Innovation

See how leading organizations make a practice of breaking rules and questioning the status quo to uncover new ideas.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Format:
eLearning
Tags:
Breakthrough Innovation, Disruptive Innovation, Ideas, New Business Models

Included Research & Tools

Idea Generation Tools

Idea Generation Tool: Busting Paradigms

Leading innovators have one thing in common: they continually challenge industry norms and come up with groundbreaking ideas. This idea-generation tool will help you identify the unquestioned paradigms in your industry, and then explore ways to break them. You’ll be empowered to generate truly innovative ideas that will move your business, product or service forward.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Tags:
Brainstorming, Breakthrough Innovations, Competitive Advantage, Ideas
Idea Generation Tools

Idea Generation Tool: Change the Rules

This 6-page tool helps you first identify the rules and processes that constrain or confine your organization, and then find practical ways to change them for the better.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Tags:
Brainstorming, Creative Problem Solving, Ideas, Strategy
Program-Building Tools

Program-Building Tool: One Year from Now

What does your organization's future hold? One Year from Now gets participants into the mind of the future, helping them envision where they want to go, and encouraging them to work backwards from that goal to develop an action plan to get there.

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

Resource List: Futurist Sources

Go deeper than mere fads—this list will help you track the fundamental driving forces shaping our world and predict what might happen in the not-so-distant future. It contains 18 carefully selected books, blogs, websites, and other resources to help you discover the future.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Tags:
Future Planning, Ideas, Long Term Planning, Trend-Watching

Client Quotes

  • “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'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
  • “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 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
  • “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'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 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
  • “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 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
  • “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 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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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