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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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