Innovate to Thrive
Consulting with Flemming Rontved
There is a Constant Need to Innovate Today!
Are you Taking Advantage of the Opportunities?
- What Does "Winning" Look Like for Your Organization?
- Does Everyone have a Crystal-Clear picture of the Win?
- Make the Best Decisions Moment to Moment?
- (If Not, How Will You Get There?) In Order to Win
It sounds good. But how do you find the time and energy to innovate when most days, you are busy just doing?
And how do you engage your entire organization to actively incorporate new thinking, new products, and more effective ways of working - including getting more done with less resources?
What does innovation look like at work today and do you need to spend millions for a research and development department to come up with the next great product or service?
Today innovation needs to be about
- Challenging the ways, we do things, even when it has always worked well.
- Continually creating new products, services, and ideas that have value for stakeholders.
- Trying different and novel ways to deal with ongoing challenges.
- Constantly seeking and implementing new and better ways to achieve results.
Innovation is more than Brainstorming or Idea Generation.
To be truly innovative, you must DO something different. And whatever you do must have value for at least one of your stakeholder groups (employees, customers, suppliers, partners, etc.).
As organizations experience success, emphasis tends to shift to maintaining the success versus considering new opportunities/products/processes. Developing the skills and competencies required for innovation contribute to
- A relentless improvement mentality
- Increased awareness of opportunities and possibilities for products and efficiencies
- Further exploration and understanding of unmet customer needs.
- Greater clarity on success over the long term
- Higher standards and overall performance
- More engaged workforce
Becoming Innovative is not for the timid or the weak!
Be prepared to be prodded, poked, and provoked toward higher levels of Innovation. We will enlist your brain and support you in being the absolute best at what you do.
Adult Brains are Not Intuitively Good at Innovation
We are built to travel the same pathways again and again. It worked well when things were relatively stable, but it gets in our way in a hyper-changing world. We can learn to leverage the power of our brain by pausing every now and then to:
- Conduct “What if” …thinking.
- Balance the big picture with the details.
- Consider different perspectives and angles.
- Ask questions to trigger new ways of perceiving.
- Seek the second ‘right’ answer, the third – make a list and prioritize.
- Challenge assumptions
