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Establishing a Process for Moving Ideas Forward

Learn how to manage a portfolio of ideas and take the right ones through development. These practical techniques enable you to create efficiencies in the idea-management process so you can spend more time executing ideas and less time managing them.

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What?

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

Why?

You'll be able to: 

  • Create a plan that lets only the best ideas move forward, without wasting resources
  • Define a step-by-step process for innovation

Who?

  • Organizational Leaders & High Performers

Included Courses

IN130: How to Build a Process for Innovation

Learn the three key elements of an innovation process: channels, tools, and roadmap, and find out how to apply them in your organization.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Format:
eLearning
Tags:
Idea Evaluation, Idea Management, Idea Selection, Process

IN233: Charting Your Innovation Roadmap

Understand how to create a well-defined roadmap that enables you to better manage a portfolio of ideas and use limited resources more effectively.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Format:
eLearning
Tags:
Idea Management, Process

Included Research & Tools

Case Studies

Case Study: Harley-Davidson

Harley-Davidson, Inc. is a 105-year-old company that designs, manufactures, and markets heavy-weight motorcycles, motorcycle parts and accessories, as well as motorcycle collectibles and riding apparel. Discover what keeps this company’s innovation engine running.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Customer-Focused Innovation, Process
Cheat Sheets

Cheat Sheet: Jumpstart Innovation Process

The reality in every organization is that money is limited. If you're devoting resources to innovation, you must implement a streamlined process to ensure that you're spending effectively. A good process will consistently help to identify your best projects and enable you to move them forward faster.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Brainstorming, Idea Management, Process
Essentials Guides

How to Build an Innovation Process

Get a step-by-step approach to develop a streamlined process for innovation in your organization. This 35-page guide and accompanying 14-page workbook helps you learn how other leading innovators move ideas ahead faster, outlining the tools they use for objective idea selection, and the methods they employ to minimize development risk.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Execution, Idea Management, Planning, Process
Program-Building Tools

Program-Building Tool: Who. How. Then. What?

The best ideas can come from anywhere. Use this tool to help your team expand their range of idea sources. It encourages groups to discuss potentially untapped origins for inspiration, as well as techniques for coming up with ideas and what you’ll do with them once you have them.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Idea Management, Planning, Process
Resource Lists

Resource List: Idea Management Software

There is a wealth of software designed specifically to aid idea management. This list contains 13 carefully selected Idea Management Software products with a brief description and website for each to help you get started.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Idea Capturing, Idea Management, Innovation Challenge, Process

Client Quotes

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