Many people believe that creativity is a gift, an innate talent that cannot be taught: there are "creative types" that are somehow different from the rest of us. It is also a common belief that the creative process is unpredictable and difficult to manage. The Innovative Thinking System dispels these myths by providing individuals and teams with a comprehensive array of tools and techniques to facilitate innovation in organizational settings.

Innovation Is a Teachable Process

In Innovative Thinking System (ITS) workshops, participants learn five fundamental skill sets for stimulating creativity and managing the creative process to produce bottom-line results:

Divergent thinking techniques to generate abundant new ideas.

Convergent thinking techniques to synthesize new alternatives from existing ideas.

Screening techniques to select the ideas most likely to succeed.

Polishing techniques to increase the probability of success.

Mapping techniques to create workable implementation plans.
Creativity as a Corporate Resource

The Innovative Thinking System is an essential set of tools for managers, teams, and individuals throughout the organization. The program takes a broad range of proven techniques and aligns them into a simple, manageable path for participants to follow in order to:

• Generate abundant new concepts.
• Organize and filter them down to the single idea most likely to succeed.
• Hone the top idea into a useful tool.
• Implement it as a viable new initiative.

ITS tools and techniques can help people solve difficult problems and achieve challenging goals in almost any situation, from emerging market trends to complex negotiations, team conflicts, and project crises. It is especially appropriate for anyone involved in developing new ideas, strategies, products, services, processes, or procedures.