Innovators and problem solvers know there is more than one right
answer. Some people need training and others want facilitations or innovative
meetings. Many people want more tools, while others search for
innovation processes or models. Regardless of your need or question,
Fesserdorff Consultants has many potential answers to fit your enterprise needs.
Customer unique wants and wishes can be addressed through our THINKn
Synergy Workshop menu of innovation steps. You may already know what is needed
or Fesserdorff Consultants can help you conduct an innovation workshop
pre-assessment to determine the best solutions or where to start.
The THINKn Synergy Workshop format is designed to bring specific problems,
issues or challenges into either a 1-day or a 2-1/2 day format. The
workshop is typically 5-8 mixed team members consolidated into an "innovation
team" that balances the desired innovation diversity. At an Innovation
Workshop a mood of discovery and positive energy creates
ground-breaking synergistic ideas.
Expected Results:
- Create new, novel & unique marketable and patentable ideas and
intellectual property
- Gain new insights and better solutions to strategic and tactical
challenges
- Solve marketing, management, process and product challenges using
proven innovation and communication processes
- Build innovation environments of greater commitment and trust to
- support learning and innovation.
- Refine solutions that are not meeting requirements
- Save time and money by spending the time to THINKn.
Understand the Situation or Problem:
- Define the requirements necessary to move forward
Quantify your customer requirements by understanding the parameters,
limitations and resources available to you
Use the Ladder of Abstraction to refocus the direction
Work the THINKn Synergy Workshop Process:
- Create a new communication style that allows idea creation
- Watch the "Incubation" process working
- Utilize known innovation processes in a synergy Workshop environment
- Feel the synergy of collective thinking
- Develop new thinking modes for random input or lateral thinking
- Create new idea associations
Harvest and Select the Optimal Idea's:
- Use the "Harvest" technique to grow your idea population
- Refine and reconstruct your ideas to fully understand them
- Affinitize your ideas to understand major themes or categories for
implementation
- Rank, Rate and Prioritize the results to understand the options to move
forward into implementation
What is Needed:
A person, agency, government department, or institution to organize a
workshop, to provide a venue with audio-visual equipment, refreshments,
workshop advertising, photocopying of handouts, processing of
enrolment fees, and any other administrative tasks.
THE COST - there are two options
For both options we arrange and pay for the costs of our own travel and
accommodation.
Option 1 [1 day THINKn Synergy Workshop]:
We charge a set fee for the
workshop. This fee is based upon a single day format. The problem definition
and focus statement development are completed by the participant's
during the workshop.
Cost = $1500. Plus travel and accommodations
Option 2 [2 ½ day THINKn Synergy Workshop]:
We charge a set fee for the
workshop. This fee is based upon a two ½ day format. The problem definition
and focus statement development are completed collaboratively and
off-line by the innovation team leader and Fesserdorff Consultants prior to
the workshop.
Cost = The fee is $5000. plus travel and accommodations
THINKn Synergy Workshop™ is a product of Fesserdorff Consultants
