The Innovation@Work
Portfolio Binder
 

Become a charter member of the Innovation@Work program today, and receive the Innovation@Work Portfolio Binder!

 

Available for a limited time, this handsome binder organizes and protects all of your program components.

Creating The Future- An Extraordinary Video Hour with Dr. Gary Hamel

Start with a strategic view of innovation from the world's leading expert on the subject, speaking live to CEOs at Standford University Executive Briefings forum.  In this 55-minute VHS Video, this best-selling author and president of the Strategos consulting group shows you and your colleagues the way to real wealth-creating creation in the new economy.  This video alone retails for $95!

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Winning at Innovation - The Comprehensive 14-hour Audio Course

This 14-hour course, on your choice of cassette or CD, will teach you innovation "Best Practices" from the world's most innovative and successful firms.  It covers each phase of the innovation cycle, from idea generation through implementation.  Topics include:

Setting the Stage for Innovation - Optimizing environmental and organizational factors to make the most of every innovation opportunity.
Setting Your Innovation Objectives - What does it mean to "win at innovation"? What separates winners from losers?
Creating Brilliant Ideas - Put ideation best practices to work in your life and your company: brainstorming, listening to the edge, visualization, paradoxical thinking, and other proven methods.
Turbo-Charging Your Group's Creativity - Put state-of-the-art facilitation techniques and software tools, from the world's top experts on innovation and creativity, to work.  Generating more and better ideas, faster.
Picking the Winners - Make the critical leap from imagination to bottom-line impact.  Develop a comprehensive business case for each new product, process, or business model selected.  Overcome barriers to brilliant decision-making.  Determine from the beginning precisely how business value will be extracted from each idea.
Development, Testing, and Validation of Ideas Prior to Rollout - Prototype and interactively develop each idea.  "Stress test" each business case.  Set go/no go guidelines to help cut your losses, early.
Managing Implementation & Value Realization - Ensure that the economic value of every innovation is actually captured.  Adapt industry best practices that enable you to learn from each creative cycle, in order to grow your innovation capabilities.  

The helpful Study Guide will supplement and enrich your audio experience.  If available at top business schools, this kind of post-MBA executive training program would require hours of classroom and reading time, and cost over $2,000 in tuition!

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Innovation@Work Digital Power Tools- The Top 16 Innovation Software Solutions

This ready-to-use CD-ROM is loaded with 16 of the most potent Windows-based software programs available for stimulating and guiding business creativity and innovation.  By special arrangement with our software partners, you'll receive trial versions of the 16 digital tools that real businesses find most useful for imagining, incubating, and implementing their business innovations.  A terrific value!

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Creative Thinking: Breaking New Ground for Innovative Business Solutions - A Video Jump-Start

One of the software programs you'll be receiving applies the research and work of Dr. Edward De Bono, regarded as the leading international authority on conceptual and creative thinking. (He coined the term "Lateral Thinking", now found in the Oxford English Dictionary!) De Bono's methods have profited corporations such as IBM, DuPont, Prudential, Shell, Eriksson, Ciba-Geigy, Ford and many others. In this mind-opening VHS video, De Bono-certified facilitator Lynda Curtin will apply lateral thinking, provocative operations, concept extraction, and random entry techniques as she engages you and your colleagues in a powerful idea-generating process that will help you out-think your competition! This presentation alone sells elsewhere for $95!

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The Innovator's Audio-Library - Our Top 14 Audio Summaries on Innovation

Expand your knowledge and skills with the 14 brilliant book summaries in this collection of top innovation titles:

Ignite your group's creativity with Jamming and Techno-Trends.  Get more innovative energy out of yourself and others with Patterns of High Performance.  Learn how to use sound, color, lighting, smell, texture, taste, temperature and nutrition to manage and enhance your group's ability to innovate with The Owner's Manual for the Brain. Develop the five crucial thinking skills you need to effectively innovate with The Leader's Edge.  Prototype your next breakthrough innovation with Serious Play.  Confront innovation strategically with The Innovator's Dilemma and Gary Hamel's Leading the Revolution.  Learn to use your imagination to see opportunities others miss with Learning from the Future, and guide the evolution of your industry with Reinventing the Business.  Discover what you can do to ensure your firm's long-term survival with Jumping the Curve. Learn how to make your next big project into a historic achievement with Organizing Genius.  And make the right innovation decisions, at the right times, with Smart Choices and The Right Moves.

Absorbed and applied, this first-of-its-kind collection will change your company, your career, and your life, forever.  Around 10 hours of insightful audio.  In book form, these titles list for over $350!

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