Crowd Innovation®: How to Reveal Your Team of Geniuses and Grow a Super Company Around Them

It’s good to be strong, but only the innovative will survive – the innovative people, the innovative teams and the innovative companies.  Our new Crowd Innovation® seminar will challenge every element of your understanding about innovation.  Through a series of hands-on activities during 2½ intense days and a series of follow up sessions, you will discover and practice seven patterns of thinking and five new strategies for growing and leading your own teams of innovative geniuses.  Your organization will harness Crowd Innovation® to achieve true Superperforming levels of innovation performance.

Crowd Innovation® is a new approach, method and set of tools that will improve company performance by driving new levels of highly valuable innovation activities throughout an organization.  This seminar delivers this and more in a novel combination of the new science of complexity, the underlying principles of Superpeformance, and Pretium Innovation’s portfolio of methods and tools distilled from expertise spanning dozens of industries and the successes of millions of innovators.  The seminar will go fast, it will be challenging, it will change the way you think and it will launch a new level of innovation performance for you, your team and throughout your organization.

Participant Benefits

After attending Crowd Innovation® participants will be able to:

• Apply new innovation approaches to real-world inventive problems
• Explore strategies to improve individual and team innovation performance
• Define your organization current innovation status and begin to build a road map to a super innovation culture
• Work with world experts in growing successful innovation cultures in global businesses
• Network with business leaders guiding the development of innovation cultures

Who Should Attend:

This seminar is designed for senior managers, leaders and owners in both large and small firms. Whether they have a long history of relying on innovation or have a newfound urgency to create new solutions, each attendee will serve as both a collaborator and mentor for the group. The session will be focused on the needs of the participants and will include exercises and discussions designed to leverage the intelligence of the entire group.

Agenda

1. First, Go Innovate (A Team Challenge)
2. How Not to Innovate
3. I Think Chaos Needs a Hug
4. “It Hits All by Itself.”
5. Donning Function-Colored Glasses
6. Growing Crystals (of Ideas) feat. “The Idea Derby”
7. Paging Mr. Webster (Defining Crowd Innovation®)
8. Tactical Innovation: Improve a system
9. Strategic Innovation: Create a system
10. Learn and Then Act