Innovate Differently

“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”

John Maxwell

Innovation is the business survival skill of our times. We help individuals and businesses alike discover and develop their natural innovation potential.

We believe that great organisations are driven by the triple bottom line of ‘Planet, People and Profit’ all centred around a just cause.  Innovation is so much more than just having a great idea; we define it as the ability to create value from ideas that are new to us.  And value is key, it can be financial, social, environmental, and personal in nature.

We use the Six ‘I’s® of Innovation framework because it is accessible, agile, human-centric and purpose driven. It dispels the myth that innovation is something done by just the creative amongst us and proves that we can all have a part to play in the innovation process.

Innovate Differently
The Six ‘I’s® of Innovation model is unique in many ways, and it provides a clear structure to the six key phases of successful innovation:

  • Identify

    opportunities by understanding trends and customer needs.

  • Ignite

    ideas by creating novel solutions.

  • Investigate

    by developing propositions, prototyping, and testing.

  • Invest

    by creating business models and plans for investment.

  • Implement

    by bringing an idea to life and creating value.

  • Improve

    by optimising an idea into another area of opportunity.

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How is it human-centric? Well, each of the phases has its own unique mindset, a divergence from the belief that creativity is all that is needed. It is backed by a robust profiling tool that allows organisations to discover individual and team collective strengths; these enable targeted interventions and strategies to leverage or provide support where required.

Which “I” do you think you lead with?  Here’s a couple of ways to find out …

  • Flight, Fight or Innovate Course - Each team member will get an individual Six ‘I’s® profile with the option for a debrief. There is also a team report to reveal strengths and challenges the team faces in innovating.
  • Taster Session - These are open half day courses designed to introduce the model and each attendee will get an individual profile report.
  • Profiler and debrief - Take the profiler with a follow-up debrief - find out where your natural fit with the model is, and understand the benefits and challenges of your own innovation style.

“Don't take our word for it”

Thoughts

The clever Principal said “You are going to be fifty anyway”

On a holiday to the Philippines, I was lucky enough to see something both clever and stunning. I went to the north of the country to visit the one thing I really wanted to see there, the rice terraces.  In the mountainous north, rice fields are just as required to grow the crop needed to feed the people as they are in the flatter lowlands.  But with less flat land available, the population optimised what they had and created terraced fields to grow the rice. This is what clever, and in this case stunning, looks like. It embodies the mantra

Purpose – Start where you are; use what you have; do what you can.

If you could only have one of the following, which would you choose? £500k; or greater awareness to a cause close to your heart; or to inspire others to greatness? This week I read one of those ‘great-news-stories’ that pop up every once in a while.  An 11-year-old boy slept in a tent in his back garden for 365 days, the purpose was to raise money for a hospice after fundraising events were cancelled due to covid. After he had done the entire year under canvas, he had raised £500k; he had raised awareness of the cause; and he has become

Commitment to your decision, yet flexible in your approach

Can I do commitment?  Sure, I can.  During lockdown, with gyms closed, I decided to do  ‘Couch to 5K’, the running app. I loved it, I was really exhilarated by the continuing challenge and I completed the nine-week course by running three lots of 5K.  I feel so much fitter for having done it – this is the value I gained by committing to the app.  I run an internal strategy for pretty much most things that I do.  I call it ‘the reward before the work’ strategy. Take my run for example, it is a ‘there-and-back circuit’. As I

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