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Offerings
Innovation Strategy, Development and
Assessment
Interventions, Facilitation and
Ideation
Training
Keynotes
Real Time Feedback
Coaching
Graduate Certificate
in Creativity, Creative Problem Solving and Change Leadership at The
University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis
The Gatehouse Discovery System
Innovation Strategy, Development and Assessment
We work with management to develop strategies for more creative and
innovative projects and organizations. As a full-service creativity and
innovation solution provider we also focus on the implementation of
these strategies. Some of the strategies we implement can be found
under offerings.
We have found that innovative, creative, successful organizations have
some things in common. How does your organization rate? We can study,
assess, plan and implement action that results in training,
interventions, etc.
Got Innovation? and its associates have worked with some of the largest
organizations in the world to develop organization-wide strategies for
creativity, creative thinking, innovation, idea collection and
development and engaged, passionate workforce cultures.
Contact us
for more information and references.
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Interventions, Facilitation and Ideation
Most consultants tell you what to do - then you need to figure out how
to do it. We facilitate sessions that get results. As process experts,
we don't come up with the ideas or even tell you which ones are best
- we are guides on the side and help create thinking environments that
allow you to use your content experts in a way that gets better results
regardless of the stage your project is in.
Examples of Interventions we conduct:
- New Product Development
- Ideation
- Productivity/Cost Savings
- Strategic Planning
- Problem Solving (Technical and Non-Technical)
- Opportunity/Mission/Vision Development
- Creating a Climate for Creativity and Innovation
- Team Development
Need to improve, develop, create or reduce? Does the status quo fall
short of your organizations needs? You aren't alone!
How have Proctor and Gamble, Frito Lay, The US Air Force and countless
other organizations developed great ideas, happy employees, countless
project successes and cost savings in the billions of dollars? By
unleashing creativity and innovation in their organizations using the
most respected and effective framework for creativity in the world -
Creative Problem Solving. Based on over 50 years of research,
Creative Problem Solving has been widely applied and proven to unleash
innovation and positive change within organizations. Since Creative
Problem Solving is a framework for creativity and innovation, it can be
combined with numerous other methodologies and tools to create optimum
results for you.
Our associates are some of the most experienced thought leaders and
trainers of Creative Problem Solving in the world. Each year our
associates work with tens of thousands of individuals in organizations
and academia. Our associates' credentials - and results - are truly
amazing.
Benefits You Can Expect:
- Drastically reduce the time it takes to solve real
organizational or personal problems.
- Leverage the power of deferred and affirmative judgment to create
breakthrough ideas and insights.
- Turn problems into opportunities.
- Productively and deliberately evaluate and build on new ideas.
- Enhance communication in your organization by providing a common
language and framework for solving problems.
- Make meetings more productive and engaging.
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Innovation Audit
Before you implement your innovation plan, know where you are! Got
Innovation? and its associates have developed an organization-wide
innovation instrument that can be combined with other services we
provide. Ask us for more details.
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Training
Got Innovation? provides innovation training for your organization. Here
is just a sample of some of our most popular offerings: (
Contact us
for a complete list of custom programming )
- Creative Problem Solving (A two to five day experience)
How have Proctor and Gamble, Frito Lay, The US Air Force and countless
other organizations developed happy employees, countless project
successes and cost savings in the billions of dollars? By unleashing
creativity and innovation in their organizations using the most
respected and effective system for creativity in the world -
Creative Problem Solving. Based on over 50 years of research,
Creative Problem Solving has been widely applied and proven to unleash
innovation and positive change within organizations.
Our associates are some of the most experienced thought leaders and
trainers of Creative Problem Solving in the world. Each year our
associates work with tens of thousands of individuals in organizations
and academia. Our associates' credentials - and results - are truly
amazing.
Benefits You Can Expect:
- Drastically reduce the time it takes to solve real
organizational or personal problems.
- Leverage the power of deferred and affirmative judgment to
create breakthrough ideas and insights.
- Turn problems into opportunities.
- Productively and deliberately evaluate and build on new ideas.
- Enhance communication in your organization by providing a
common language and framework for solving problems.
- Make meetings more productive and engaging.
What You Will Learn:
- A structured process for solving problems that ensures efforts
are more efficient and effective.
- An approach that enables you to identify and solve the real
problem, generate creative options and develop deliberate and
detailed plans of action.
- The common barriers to creativity and ways to overcome them.
- Tools and techniques that effectively jumpstart creative thinking.
- A common process and language that enables individuals, groups
and teams to solve problems and create breakthrough opportunities.
- Innovation with TRIZ: (a one to three day experience)
With TRIZ, innovation is a science. TRIZ (the Russian acronym for the
Theory of Solving Problems Inventively) is a powerful, new problem
solving method based on well defined, predictable patterns of how
inventors solve problems. Virtually every problem people try to solve
has been solved many times before by people in other companies and
industries. Many large organizations have adopted TRIZ as a key
component in their innovation strategy.
TRIZ can be applied to a wide variety of problems including
non-technical problems, predicting future product evolution, finding
hidden sources of quality problems, and more. The one, two or three day
course will focus on the basics of inventive problem solving.
Benefits You Can Expect:
- Confidently tackle difficult problems by identifying the
contradictions and resolving them without compromise.
- Find simpler, easier (more ideal) solutions using existing
resources.
- Quickly discover many non-traditional solutions.
- Those who consider themselves less "innovative" will also be able
to confidently solve problems and develop solutions using a
well-defined, thorough process.
What You Will Learn:
- How to identify contradictions in a system that is blocking
further system development and how to resolve them without
compromises.
- How to envision the Ideal Final Result and identify resources
present in the system that will allow you to achieve that Ideal
Final Result
- How to clearly define the problem in a way to see nearly every
way possible to improve the system or solve the problem
- How to make Substance-Field models of the problem so as to find
numerous solutions outside your field of expertise.
- The Gatehouse Discovery Workshop (A one to three day
experience)
The Gatehouse Discovery System workshop is foundational training in
personal and team effectiveness.
The Gatehouse Discovery System™ begins with an exciting
Gatehouse Discovery Workshop. These workshops are customized for
workgroups, management teams, or entire organizations to help
understand and improve the communication and interpersonal dynamics
within their group as well as with their customers and clients.
Each individual is different. The Gatehouse Discovery System™
is based on the principle that understanding self, others and
interactions can be the single most important aspect of personal and
organizational development. The Gatehouse Discovery Workshop
is a powerful and enlightening personal learning experience.
Based on the highly accurate and easy to use
Gatehouse Discovery Report, the
Gatehouse Discovery Workshop information is clear, easy to
remember and it produces results.
Learn more about the Gatehouse Discovery System:
www.gatehousealliance.com/gds.html
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Keynotes
Got Innovation associates are regular keynote speakers in the area of
Creativity, Innovation, Problem Solving and Change Leadership.
Contact us
for more details.
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Real Time FeedbackTM
Through our Strategic Partners
The Allison Group,
we bring you the Real Time FeedbackTM process. Using a
combination of technology (delivered through secure extranets),
disciplined processes, and coaching, Real-time Feedback enables
employees to collaborate effectively to produce peak business results
in a rapidly changing environment. While retaining managerial controls,
Real-time Feedback Programs bring businesses the benefits of focused
information flows that, in turn, enable synchronized decision-making at
the individual employee level to meet business objectives and
performance challenges.
The design is based on recent research into self-organizing systems.
The fluid reaction of flocks of birds to changing conditions is a well
known example of flexible self organization around a goal.
Real-time Feedback doesn't recreate the wheel; it enables businesses to
tailor leading edge research to their own situations. For example, you
can choose to compare the results of your Real-time Feedback programs
with results:
- exhibited by the Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work
For,
- described in Built to Last (by Collins and Porras), or
- the responses to the top 12 questions shown to correlate with
business performance according to research conducted by the
Gallup Organization (80,000+ interviews).
It builds on the best of the new learning and technological innovations, without many of the downsides.
Real-time Feedback doesn't become "flavor of the month" because:
- it is completely customized-using your objectives, performance challenges, organizational structure, and language.
- it respects individual's time and attention (for example, it takes less than 5 minutes a session to provide feedback).
- it changes as your situation changes and builds in suggestions and inquiries from everyone in the organization.
- it is based on proven principles from the new sciences.
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Coaching
Got Innovation? works with associates who have established reputations
as top notch coaches. Contact us for more
information.
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Graduate Certificate in Creativity, Creative Problem Solving and
Change Leadership at The University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis
Got Innovation? principal David Labno is also the Program Chair of The
Institute for Innovation and Creativity at the University of St. Thomas
in Minneapolis, MN. The institute has partnered up with The International
Center for Studies in Creativity at Buffalo State College, State
University of New York to bring a Graduate Level Certificate in
Creativity, Creative Problem Solving and Change Leadership to
Minneapolis. Click on www.stthomas.edu/mgmtctr/creativity to learn more about this program.
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The Gatehouse Discovery System
The Gatehouse Discovery System is fundamental training in personal and
team effectiveness. Learn more about the Gatehouse Discovery System and
Complete the Online Evaluator:
www.gatehousealliance.com/gds.html
Learn more about the one to three day workshop here.
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