Training | Facilitated Webinars

Activate innovation across global teams

Facilitated Webinars

Webinar

Bring together remote teams and reinforce workshop learnings with facilitated hour-long webinars on targeted and pressing innovation topics. Each webinar incorporates group polling, shout-outs, and Q&A to keep the conversation relevant and drive engagement.

What?

  • A series of nine webinars (one hour each, with time built in for questions)
  • Timely best-practice case studies encourage attendees to seek insight within, adjacent, and beyond their organization
  • Conversational tone encourages participation and a relaxed atmosphere
  • Participant "take-aways" include a resource guide and a set of tips and tricks for future reference
  • Up to 500 participants can be accommodated in each webinar 

Why? 

  • Engage dispersed, time-crunched teams around real business topics
  • Encourage cross-functional collaboration within large global organizations
  • Keep your teams abreast of what's happening in the marketplace today and tomorrow

Who?

  • Organizational Leaders, High Performers, and Individual Contributors

Where?

  • Delivered online (via futurethink's preferred webinar provider)

Webinars

Business Model Innovation

Business Model Innovation: Creating the Unexpected for Competitive Advantage

How do you become the disruptive innovator in your industry? The most innovative organizations go beyond enhancing their existing products and services—they rethink business models entirely. Gain insights and examples into how bold companies are reinventing the value chain and creating new market opportunities for their products and services.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Format:
Webinars
Tags:
Breakthrough Innovation, Critical Thinking, Ideas, Problem-Solving
Identifying Unmet Needs

Identifying Unmet Needs: How to Discover Your Customers' Unarticulated Needs

See how successful innovators develop a deep, intuitive understanding of their customers to transform latent needs into brilliant, quick-to-market solutions. Learn the strongest techniques and ideas to help you start understanding your customers better, right now.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Format:
Webinars
Tags:
Ethnography, Ideas, Ideation, Problem-Solving
Setting Innovation Metrics

Setting Innovation Metrics: Select the Best Criteria to Measure Your Program's Effectiveness

Setting metrics for your innovation program is perhaps one of the most critical decisions you will make. Metrics help calibrate your efforts and offer a clear path for remedy. You’ll know what’s working in your efforts, what’s not working, and how to modify or tweak your program. This course will share Input, Development, and Output metrics various innovators use and help you identify the right set of metrics for your organization. Learn which to apply to your program in order to better diagnose, track and mobilize your efforts.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Format:
Webinars
Establishing Innovation Risk-Tolerance

Establishing Innovation Risk-Tolerance: Set Boundaries that Support a Culture of Smart Risk Taking and Experimentation

Managing risk while driving change is a delicate balance. How do you encourage teams to take smart risks vs.stupid ones? Uncover the methods for defining risk and setting boundaries that enable teams to better embrace innovation efforts.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Format:
Webinars
Innovating When The Pressure Is On

Innovating When the Pressure is On: How to Do More with Less

Tough business environments set the stage for the strongest, smartest companies to emerge. Will you be one of them? Don't put innovation on hold in hard times. Learn the techniques winning companies utilize to work within extreme constraints and still come out ahead of the pack.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Format:
Webinars
Tags:
Basics, Incremental Innovation, New Business Models
Welcome To The Future

Welcome to the Future: A Look at People, Technologies, and Society in the Next Ten Years

Is your business ready for the long-term in regard to the changing marketplace? This webinar helps prepare you and your organization to innovate into the the next decade. Learn to leverage key trends being driven by shifts in society, technology, business, and government.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Format:
Webinars
Tags:
Foresight, Long-Range Planning, Scenario Planning, Trend-Watching
Building Digital Competency

Building Digital Competency: How the Social Web is Reshaping Workplace Expectations

Are you prepared for the new world of work? Competitiveness is increasingly based on our ability to work—and succeed—in a world that is digitally mediated. This course offers insights on the future of managing relationships, knowledge, workflows, and ideas examining what it means for your business.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Format:
Webinars
Tags:
Basics, Enterprise Social Media, Enterprise-wide Communication, Video Technology
Building A Better Brainstorm

Building A Better Brainstorm

Innovation is about more than coming up with a great idea, it’s also about the conversation surrounding those ideas. When people sit, share, and collaborate, innovation moves forward. It all comes down to the power of meetings and the crucial role that facilitators play to make these innovation-related sessions productive and effective. Learn the pre, during, and post-session best practices for better brainstorm results.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Format:
Webinars
Partnerships For Innovation Success

Partnerships for Innovation Success: Leveraging Outside Resources to Reduce Risk and Accelerate Results

Successful innovation involves cross-pollenization and dialogues across business units and with external partners. Discover the dozens of ways organizations break down silos, get rapid input, and learn to share works in progress for better results.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Format:
Webinars
Tags:
Collaboration, Reduce Risk, Strategic Partnerships
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Client Quotes

  • “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 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
  • “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 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 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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “futurethink made the topic of innovation, which means different things to different people, real, meaningful, and actionable.”
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  • “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
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    Sandy Stosz, Rear Admiral, United States Coast Guard United States Coast Guard
  • “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
  • “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