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FastCompany Magazine calls the 7 Laws of Innovation - "..a guide to the ins-and-outs of innovation—how innovation works and how it thrives."

Over the years of being in the innovation space, I've discovered a set of laws by trial and error.  Needless to say, I have the scars from the school of hard knocks to validate that these are the set of laws that are critical for innovation success. If you violate any one of them, the consequences can be disastrous.  These laws apply to all sizes of organizations ranging from well-established multi-nationals, to early stage start-ups to governments.

This poster can become an innovation tool to help your team understand and grasp what it really takes to embrace a culture of innovation and transform the organization.

The original blog post was picked up by FastCompany, BusinessWeek and other leading publications. The result was the translation of the original manifesto into the poster.

Poster Size: 18" by 24"

Shipped in a tube and ready for framing.

Note: All profits for this product are donated to Hacking Autism (HackingAutism.org).

The Disruptive Ideation Workshop guides your team through a proven framework used by 1,000's of organizations that creates more and better ideas. In the end, you walk away with a ranked list of disruptive ideas -- and a team experienced in how to repeat the process.

Note: Fee includes travel for US and Canada workshops. Other locations will be charged for travel.

Location: At your facility 

Length: 1.5 days

Maximum Students: 20 max

Description: The course is based on the FIRE (Focus, Ideation, Ranking, Execution) framework developed by Phil McKinney, the retired CTO for HP and founder of HP's Innovation Program Office (IPO). Phil and his teams were named by FastCompany, Inc and other publications as the "Most Innovative/Creative" multiple years. The innovations from Phil and his teams are used 100's of million people every day.

To learn more, visit DisruptiveIdeation.com 

The Innovators Network, LLC has licensed Phil's courses, workshops and training materials to create this workshop. 

Innovation Guide - Advising, Guiding and Coaching. 

Our Innovation Guide Program is an advisory toolbox developed with the real needs of innovators in mind. This is what we would have wanted in our early days of driving innovation.

The program gives you a unique approach of hands on coaching and advising to build your innovation confidence more effectively and is unlike costly and lengthy consultancy engagements.

The program adjusts to where you are in your innovation lifecycle and is offered as a unique subscription model with a minimum of 3 months.

Monthly - Driving Innovation Session (with Award Winning Innovator Phil McKinney and Team)

Weekly - Innovation Huddle Up Call (with our Expert Innovation Team)

On Call Communication (with our Expert Practitioners and in touch with Phil McKinney our Chair, global innovator and host of the Killer Innovations Show)

NOTE: This offering is a 3 month price (our minimum time period, typical engagements are 6 months to a year) for organizations and innovation leaders. Coaching can be done with a team, individual leaders or a combination. Contact us for pricing on longer term coaching engagements.  For personal coaching, not affiliated with an organization, reach out to us for more details.

The Organization's Innovation Readiness Assessment (OIRA) takes a comprehensive look at your organization analyzing all elements, benchmarking, providing adjustments and recommendations to optimize for your innovation journey. 

Length: 1 Month Engagement

Location: At your facility and virtual

Note: Fee includes travel for US and Canada. Other locations will have additional travel fee.

Description:  The Organization’s Innovation Readiness Assessment takes you through a series of diagnostic questions, analysis and tests based on the 7 Immutable Laws of Innovation.  It also considers elements of our FIRE (Focus, Ideation, Ranking, Execution) framework. 

This framework and process determines areas of strength and where your organization needs to optimize. To get it right the assessment takes into consideration your unique organization, its business maturity stage and the innovation lifecycle you are in. This results in practical actions to be more effective.

After we synthesize all factors we then compare against others in the industry, similar organizations as well as organizations both larger and smaller across industries. By using your unique organization and a variety of data points from the ‘best in class’ to those experiencing growing pains in the trenches, you will gain a full suite of learnings that will enable you to be a leading innovation organization. 

This framework and process coupled with our innovation pedigree, cross industry breadth, functional expertise and experiences from startup to global 1000 companies provides your organization the highest degree of confidence you can succeed in the innovation economy.

To learn more, contacts us at info@TheInnovators.Network. 

Can't figure out how to brainstorm with your team while you are all virtual? In one session, see and experience a 100% virtual brainstorm/ideation session. You and your team will immediately be able to put the tools to use.

Virtual Brainstorming and Ideation is just as effective virtual as in person with the FIRE framework and intuitive tools. Our framework is used by 1,000's of organizations to create more and better ideas.

Take our 2.5 Hour Session -- learn how to have repeatable sessions and walk away with breakout ideas to keep the idea pipeline strong. Taught by Emmy Award Winning Innovators who’ve proven the virtual ideation techniques and online tools with major industries continually for many years.

Our virtual brainstorming and ideation session is interactive and will give you the framework and experience to always do remote sessions. Teams will focus ideating from a problem/challenge/opportunity statement generated by your organization (or by our teams) and walk away with a pipeline of ideas and a proven technique. To learn more on our virtual brainstorming see recent Killer Innovations podcasts at https://theinnovators.network/virtual-brainstorm/.

As we adopt to a new way of operating, what a perfect time to do a train teams on virtual brainstorming and ideation. No need to travel or have trainers on site with our Virtual Option. We train from our studio using Zoom Video Communications comprehensive capabilities. Zoom's Breakout Rooms effectively align w/ our ideation & ranking exercises and enables our interactive hands on approach. *Zoom Sponsors our Killer Innovations Show/Podcast

Note: Fee includes travel for US and Canada workshops. Other locations will be charged for travel.

Location: Virtual via Zoom/Zoom Room 

Length: 2.5 Hours

Maximum Students: 20 max

Description: The course is based on the FIRE (Focus, Ideation, Ranking, Execution) framework developed by Phil McKinney, the retired CTO for HP and founder of HP's Innovation Program Office (IPO). Phil and his teams were named by FastCompany, Inc and other publications as the "Most Innovative/Creative" multiple years. The innovations from Phil and his teams are used 100's of million people every day.

To learn more, visit DisruptiveIdeation.com 

The Innovators Network, LLC has licensed Phil's courses, workshops and training materials to create this workshop.