Capability Building 

All of Our Action-Planning Workshops are Designed to
Build Capability

Reseach shows that people will remember only about 20% of what they learn at a training seminar just three weeks later. That means they forget an incredible 80%!

We think -- and our clients agree -- that most seminars are a waste of your money.

However, the research also demonstrated that a program in which people were able to apply what they learned immediately, the results were just the opposite: They retained 80% of what they learned three weeks later!

Many Innovation Implementations are launched in environments where the sponsors need to demonstrate results fast, build credibility through pilot projects, and create internal capability before scaling up. For these situations, we custom design approaches that impact performance quickly.

Capability Building is a Quantum Jump Better than Training

Here’s how Capability Building works:

• Concepts: Most management personnel already either know the concept or have heard about it. So we don’t spend much time on them.
• Best Practices: Only those Concepts that can be translated into a Best Practice are worthy of an executive’s attention. Therefore, we are sure to provide clear and concise Best Practices.
• Tool Kits: Every Best Practice, to be applicable, should have a Tool Kit to make it work in the real world. Tool Kits are usually something simple, like a framework, a checklist, a set of questions, or set of sequential action steps.
• Application: Every cluster of Best Practices, within minutes of presentation, is brought to a point of Application to a real life situation your organization is grappling with now. That’s why we encourage people to attend in teams.

Custom Build Your Own Capability Action-Planning Workshop Program

Our programs are modularized to enable you to select the type of program you need to bring your staff up to speed on the most powerful innovation systems available today. Here are just a few of the modules you can choose from:

• Strategic Imperative for Innovation
• Key Leadership Role of Senior Executives
• Innovation Strategies
• Creating a Six-Pronged Innovation Engine
• Enabling Champions of Innovation
• Innovation Program & Policy Development
• Maximizing Innovation Pipeline Flows
• Using Customer Insight to Generate Innovation
• Co-Creative Negotiations to activate Innovation

• Combating the Politics of Innovation
• Preventing “Not Invented Here”
• Best Legal & Contractual Practices to stimulate Intellectual Property Generation
• Innovation on the Edge -- Using Alliances and Supply Chains to Double Innovation
• Best Core Processes & Practices for Innovation
• Structuring the Innovation Culture
• Innovation Architecture & Management
• Using Total Cost of Ownership as an Innovation Generator
• Setting the Right Metrics and Rewards for Innovation