InnovationWizard ... your 24/7 smart thinking resource
For about half of what it would cost to send 2 people to a
professional development conference, you can help ALL of your employees think smarter.
Give them simple, powerful tools to help them not only generate potentially game-changing
ideas but also know how to evaluate
and select the very best ideas and find the people and
resources needed to get those blockbuster ideas implemented.
Open their eyes to new possibilities and processes with case stories from leading organizations.
The InnovationWizard is the result of eleven years of study, research
and synthesizing the "best of the best." Now you can have it all . tools, techniques,
process models, articles, book reviews, reports . all in one place.
Link it to your intranet . or distribute items one at a time through your email campaign.
Drop specific tools into your training programs or use the process models as part of your
internal initiatives. All the information in the InnovationWizard is yours to use . forever .
royalty free!
All content on the Wizard can be used in training programs and other
materials used within your organization ... royalty free!
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Create the Future of Your Organization
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New Thinking Requires New Tools
- everything starts with an idea and
giant sequoias never sprout from acorns. The Wizard offers simple,
powerful tools and processes that help people deliberately look for ideas
with extraordinary potential ... and then helps them test, select and
implement those ideas in order to create value for the customer and
your organization.
Innovation Is a Team Sport and Culture Is the Playing Field - the
launch of a new product, service or process requires the engagement of
many people, often across multiple departments, divisions, and sometimes,
even separate organizations. The Wizard offers a powerful guide to
building the culture, the mindset, and competencies required to make
the kind of sweeping improvements and changes that lead to significant
growth.
Always Fresh ... Always Familiar
- Wizard client Mary Wallgren, Director of
Innovation for James Hardie Construction, says, "Out of sight, out of mind,"
and recommends the Wizard as her employees' home page. Every day there are
new tools and resources highlighted to make it an interesting and vital part
of the work day. At the same time, the stable, familiar structure makes it
easy for employees to use with minimal investment in time or training.
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11 Great Ways the Wizard Builds Smart Thinking
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Best of the Best - unlike individual books or consultant approaches, the Wizard represents a synthesis of the
best in the entire field of innovation. It maps together the principles, practices, tools,
techniques, processes and philosophies of innovation into a coherent whole that you can use
to create an innovation initiative that delivers the results you need.
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InnovationDNA Framework of Principles - includes case
stories from organizations around the world illustrating each principle. Also includes a
complete, graphically engaging and interactive PowerPoint presentation to help people
understand the need for innovation and what it takes to do it - perfect for presentations
to senior management and at company meetings.
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Royalty-free I-Toolkit - includes an e-learning guide to 43 of the most
important, carefully selected and validated tools of innovation, plus a workshop leaders' guide
for incorporating these tools into training programs. Also included is a resource guide to 37
powerful vendor tools, including descriptions and client references and ratings.
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Dynamic - the home page of the InnovationWizard is
filled with constantly rotating tools, techniques and information. On a daily basis, there
are ideas to increase personal competencies or spread innovation throughout the organization,
a mini-best practice and an idea stimulator. Two e-mail columns are posted weekly in addition
to a top article on innovation, a highlighted divergence and convergence tool, a recap of one
of the InnovationDNA principles and answers to one of the most frequently asked questions about
innovation. Additionally new content is added on a quarterly basis.
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Best Practices - hundreds of micro-cases and reports about
actions taken by organizations around the world. Includes ideas for using these to stimulate thinking
about changes that could be incorporated into your organization.
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Stimulate Ideas in 5 minutes -
there are hundreds of techniques for stimulating ideas but most people
will only need or use a few. The Wizard has synthesized all the ideas for
stimulating ideas into 5 simple processes and then offers only the simplest
and most powerful tools. Most require less than 5 minutes to understand
and use.
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Personal Innovation Competencies (PIC) - a self-development
guide to the 38 behaviors important to being a competent innovator.
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Bookshelf - a gathering of the best innovation and creativity books with accompanying
summaries, articles and author interviews.
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Frequently Asked Questions - in-depth answers and specific
guidance on the top questions on innovation.
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Mini-InnovationAudit - a simple, 12 - question electronic
assessment of your current culture to help you know where to start building a more innovative
organization. Use this mini-assessment as frequently as necessary. (A more complete survey is available if you want to have your entire
organization surveyed -- call 1-870-656-4141 for more information.)
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Constantly Updated - the field of innovation is
changing rapidly. Periodic updates to the Wizard make sure you always have the latest
and best information.
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Articles & Reports - scores of vital articles and reports by
important leaders, reseachers and practitioners of innovation.
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Interactive e-tools - powerful
and interactive e-tools such as
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Mindmapping - learn how to do this popular and powerful
technique in 8 easy steps.
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Creativity Gym - use this graphically inviting tool in
groups or individually to jump start ideas.
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Mini-InnovationAudit -
survey your organization periodically
to see how you are progressing in creating an innovation culture.
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Innovation Styles - make sure your innovation project
teams have a diversity of thinking styles by having each member take this powerful assessment.
It will help them understand their own thinking style and that of their team members.
(Available on InnovationWizard Plus only).
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Innovation Presentations - powerful and graphically engaging
PowerPoint presentations to use at company meetings and to engage participation in the innovation programs.
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Breakthrough Generator - if you want a breakthrough that
will make customers say "Wow!", start here.
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Quotes - great quotes focused around important innovation topics.
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InnovationWizard Plus ...
Includes these great features
(Call 1-870-656-4141 for a free demonstration)
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Innovation Styles - every person in the organization can
now benefit from understanding his or her own thinking style and the styles of team members
and co-workers. Unlimited use. (Available at a modest cost per participant.)
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Easy Announcement Function - you can announce
trainings or idea challenges with a simple text management function (in the box under
the green "Client Logo" box. (Available on InnovationWizard Plus only).
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Add Your Own Content - a simple knowledge management
system allows you to add your own company- or industry-specific content, models, or processes.
(Available on InnovationWizard Plus only).
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Branded Innovation E-Guide - your corporate logo
(or innovation initiative logo) will be part of this powerful internal guide to innovation
and will create ownership. (Available on InnovationWizard Plus only).
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For a demo, contact Joyce Wycoff
or call 1-870-656-4141.
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