Innovation Workshop Sessions
Innovate Now!
Rapidly launch your new business initiative in less time.
An online Innovation Workshop Series dates are based on your availability.
As the COVID crisis begins to turn a corner, so does your business. For owners and operators, the road ahead is still filled with challenges across many fronts. Our team will guide you on how to seize this moment as a golden opportunity to transform your company and change the way you do things. You will be able to meet and interact with peers to exchange ideas across industries. From past experience, we know you will find this workshop series to be a worthwhile, practical learning experience!
What is Included?
- Innovation education series – self-directed video learning covering the top industry best practices on innovation and growth; Recorded presentations plus instructor Q & A as needed
- 60 min personalized ideation session with Innovation leaders
- 60 min private coaching session with you or you and your team to recap key themes and apply to your business
Who Should Participate?
This workshop series is designed for every professional and corporate, small business or startup. It will help you sharpen your business edge and kickstart your firm’s path forward.
The program is designed to be a blend of self-directed, active workshop and real time discussion to be tailored to your business and your goals.
3 Critical “I’s” will be covered:
- Introspection
- Sharing of innovation best practices
- Assessment of your company’s innovation capabilities and resources
- Situational evaluation of your new product, process and market potential
- Ideation
- Creating the ecosystem to support your innovation initiative
- Brainstorming and mapping of solutions and ideas
- May include you or you and your team depending on the package
- Implementation
- Back casting to build an implementation plan and timeline
- Risk and countermeasure analysis
- Milestones and planning to track progress
- Follow-on coaching session
- Refine and develop a plan to continue
- Customer and market development plan
- Tailored discussion around your business
Innovation Leaders
Matthew Liotine, Ph.D.
Matt is a strategic advisor in operations and supply chain management, analytics, quality control and innovation. He has advised, coached and trained thousands of professionals from companies and organizations in a variety of industries from acround the globe. He has over 30 years of industry experience, and holds certifications in Six Sigma and business continuity. Matt is also a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is the founder and director of their graduate program in supply chain and operations management. He is the co-author of a new book entitled Technology in Supply Chain Management and Logistics: Current Practice and Future Applications.
Heidi Hattendorf
Heidi Hattendorf is a global business executive with expertise in strategy, innovation, transformation and end to end marketing. Heidi held executive roles at Motorola in both cellular and mission critical businesses leading product management, product marketing, innovation and digital transformation. Most recently she built the telecom & media industry practice from the ground up for a medium sized growth company in Silicon Valley looking to tailor their offering by industry. Heidi has a B.S. in Business plus an MBA, and certificate in Digital Transformation. She worked abroad in Europe for 11 years, holds two patents, and was recognized as one of the top 40 women in Innovation by Front End of Innovation.
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