How we help

Most organizations struggle to turn creative ideas into real innovations. Sometimes innovation is treated as a “technology” issue, sometimes it stalls during rollout, and often it’s seen as something that happens only when inspiration strikes. The result is ad hoc innovation that’s hard to repeat and even harder to scale.

We help you change that!

Our approach blends proven methods from Lean Startup, broader Lean thinking, co-creation, systems thinking, and other innovation disciplines using workshops followed by coaching to reinforce concepts. We don’t just teach concepts or tell you what we think is best; we help you and your teams learn to innovate by applying a variety of methods and techniques.

This approach works because it:

  • Builds innovation fluency — the muscle memory to know when and how to use the right techniques.
  • Shows that great ideas need collaboration and testing, not lone genius creativity.
  • Helps teams grow, test, and improve innovations together to deliver true value.
  • Makes implementation easier, because the people doing the work helped shape the solution.

As a result, the organization grows creative ideas into intentional innovations and then harvests and improves them for lasting impact. Over time, the teams become more confident, more capable, and more self supportive in managing innovation across the full lifecycle. This lifecycle guides the structure, direction, measures, and thinking that you adapt to your innovation system.

The benefits to This Are –

  • Your people learn how to better innovate while realizing the ideas that will push your organization ahead or solve your immediate challenges.
  • You will see that innovation can take root everywhere in your organization.
  • You will gain experience with proven techniques to explore, test, and scale ideas, as well as give them ongoing improvement.
  • You can choose the state of fluency you need, preventing you from over investing in the short-term with an ability to expand that fluency when needed.

Freebies for You

We want you to get started. Here are some freebies to help…

  • Information on our Innovation Life-Cycle – this helps you realize the big goals and activities for each phase that innovation passes through from start to end, strategically and tactically.
  • What Innovation Fluency means – basically defining the states of fluency so you can decide the fluency your organization needs.
  • The Mission-Driven Organization Canvas – a single page way to capture the relevant information about your organization. Innovations can be tested, refined, and deployed within any box (or across several boxes) in the Canvas.

And don’t forget, our Reflections blog will contain a lot more useful items in the future!