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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. 

Success in the Innovation Economy requires personal, team
and organizational creativity and innovation skills. This
includes the ability to use the tools and frameworks to
create more and better ideas. After this course, you will be
able to use innovation frameworks, ideation tools, ranking
strategies and executive options to create game-changing
innovations that lead to marked success.

Learning Outcomes

• Learn how to use the FIRE framework to Focus, Ideate,
Rank and Execute the best ideas.
• Gain innovation confidence that you can use your
personal creativity to create successful innovations.
• Learn how to identify and deal with corporate and
“Innovation Anti-Bodies” so they do not derail your
idea.
• Understand how to use the Innovation Lean Canvas to
capture a complete view of an idea to greatly improve
the likelihood of success.
• Become equipped to identify, capture and detect
customers problems that become the catalyst for new
ideas that become innovations.

Bonus

Recieve a TIN certificate if all three courses are completed.

Instructed by Phil McKinney (author, speaker, show host, and innovation guru) and team.

Location: Virtual (from our studios using Zoom Rooms/ other tools). Contact us for onsite options.

Length: 1/2 Day

Maximum Students: 20 max

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.

Success in innovation requires a strong portfolio of
ideas that lead to market success. Therefore, Portfolio
management becomes a critical skill to support a team’s
innovation agenda.                                                                                                             
Key Portfolio Management skills include establishing
innovation priorities, innovation pipeline management,
portfolio resourcing, metrics/measurements, schedule and
expectation management, innovation selection criteria,
stage gate management and overall governance of the
innovation agenda.

Learning Outcomes                                                                                  

• Use case studies to look at alternatives to structure
and manage a portfolio on innovation.
• Understand the steps and skills to establish, manage
and execute the innovation pipeline
• Become equipped to prioritize and select the
innovations to execute
• Learn to design experiments to test and validate
innovations
• Develop business skills, tools and standards to identify,
analyze and understand the impact of an innovation.

Bonus

Recieve a TIN certificate if all three courses are completed.

Instructed by Phil McKinney (author, speaker, show host, and innovation guru) and team.

Location: Virtual (from our studios using Zoom Rooms/ other tools). Contact us for onsite options.

Length: 1/2 Day

Maximum Students: 20 max

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

The Innovation Program Office (IPO) is a structure that when instituted effectively manages the innovation lifecycle from ideation to productization.  Our team works with your organization to establish, structure and customize the IPO. 

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 “Innovation Program Office” (IPO) is an effective tool that applies to any organization looking to integrate innovation as a discriminator… a foundational element for success. See our recent show on the IPO.

The role takes on many forms but the primary focus for the “IPO” is establishing the innovation framework, governance, metrics, idea generation, funnel management, securing the funding, project selection and tracking, and training and supporting the teams as they innovate.

Why is an Innovation Program Office (IPO) so vital. 1) It supports corporate/organization wide strategy setting & priorities.  2) Ensures you have a well-managed & functioning innovation lifecycle engine 3) Keeps enterprise plans living and focused  4) Promotes premium growth  5) Enables rapid alignment to take advantage of market forces

An IPO continually feeds ideas into planning, discovers adjustments that are needed to keep the execution of a plan relevant to market forces.  Using the IPO’s talent, idea sourcing capability/idea pipeline your enterprise strategy & tactics will always be challenged to exceed capacity and go beyond for success.

To learn more about the Innovation Program Office written about in the Harvard Business Review and a Stanford case study, contact 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.