Jump Start
Your Innovation

Coaching

Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who has been there. We specialize in helping you crystallize your thoughts, craft your strategy and build an assessment plan. Or maybe you just need a sounding board to test your thinking. Whether you are the corporate VP of Innovation or the team leader on an innovation project, you’ll find we can offer proven, real world advice on how to Jump Start Your Innovation.

Dr. Pletcher talks about how to rethink and use innovation as a way to solve business issues and to create competitive advantage.

Programs and Workshops

Sometimes you need a focused and disciplined program to solve knotty problems. A flow of innovation requires one project success after another; so we provide rapid innovation skills which can be incorporated into your play book. Our INNOVATION PLAYBOOK™ guides teams in solving the immediate problem.

Programs and Workshops

• Mining Our Expertise is a 2-day session to develop a new understanding of customers
• Seek and Find is a 5-day session to identify new product concepts
• Value Innovation is a multiple-day session to identify new markets
• Jump Start Innovation is a rapid 12 hour problem solving session

Whether you need to find a way to do more with less, to see opportunity in the old, to find new space or just to do innovation faster, we can offer proven customized programs and workshops to Jump Start Your Innovation.

Consulting

Sometimes you need a fresh, practical method to get the total flow of innovations going. Using our INNOVATION BOTTLENECKs™ approach to pinpoint the bottlenecks, we bring our experience and expertise to help you “debottle.” We can help you “debottle” the innovation process itself through:

1. Ideation—Getting to more potent ideas
2. Rapid Development—Reducing the costs
3. Portfolio Management—Putting innovation to work.

Or we can work with you to address systemic bottlenecks around your innovation framework, strategy, metrics, communications, recognition, etc.

Whether you need a systemic overhaul or targeted development of a repeatable and dependable process, we bring fresh practical methodology to Jump Start Your Innovation.