INNOVATION PROGRAMS
4-Day Innovation Sprints
Get profound answers in four days using an intensive, highly-structured and proven approach:
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Move from problem to validated solution in just five days.
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Frame the problem, gain team alignment, generate a massive quantity of options, choose and elaborate a solution, and test it with users.
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Group wisdom without Groupthink
Innovation Change Management
We help your organization overcome a natural immune response to change:
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Strategies tailored for sustainable innovation
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Aligned with the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) Standard
We use best practices: Design Thinking
Standardized by the Stanford d.school (Hasso Plattner Institute of Design) and the IDEO design agency, Design Thinking is a disciplined approach to creative problem solving and innovation.
The goal of Design Thinking is simple: creatively solve common business problems using the same well-structured, human-centred methods traditionally used by designers.
In recent years, it has become the centrepiece of innovation practices used every day at many of the world’s most respected and loved brands including Apple, Google, General Electric, Home Depot and others.
Proven methods used by these leading innovators
What is Design Thinking?
At its core, Design Thinking is a problem-solving philosophy that forces us to challenge assumptions, understand our customers' points-of-view (POV), generate massive quantities of ideas, capture collective wisdom, humanize through storytelling, and iteratively test our understanding to make evidence-based decisions. All at high-speed in a lean, agile way. These are the learnable traits of innovation and entrepreneurship for Industry 4.0.
Design Thinking consists of methods and tools across five (5) stages:
EMPATHIZE
Methods to observe and engage users to understand their needs
DEFINE
Methods to unambiguously define and frame the problem using customer's POV
IDEATE
Methods to generate a massive quantity of ideas and options to solve the problem statement
PROTOTYPE
Methods to prove (or disprove) promising ideas with the goal of quickly getting feedback
TEST
Methods to gather high-quality feedback that drives learning and iteration
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