Creative ideas are the lifeblood of innovation… but innovation can only ever occur when great ideas are effectively executed. Whether we are talking about new products or services, or ideas to enhance your business processes – your best ideas are useless if you can’t make them happen.
So, what to do? Well, you could try making the old-school, linear project management approach work for you (and there are some situations that definitely warrant that approach). But that’s often a slow, clunky and costly option.
Which leaves you with three options:
- Carry on as normal – who needs to innovate anyway? (a bad option).
- Engage the services of that rogue Dr Jason Fox to facilitate some gamestorming sessions to gain massive traction on our ideas (a good option, particularly if you want results fast).
- Get that man in to show us how to run our own gamestorming internally, and while we’re at it, let’s get all of his ideas-execution savvy too (another good option, especially if you want a better capacity to generate your own results in the future).
This here page is devoted to the third option, but I have a very nifty pdf that explains things in a much more visually attractive way (go on, download it).
Corporate in-house training on ideas execution.
You may have already invested in some creativity training (like from the wonderful people and fellow scientists at Inventium, mayhaps). But when it comes to execution and productivity, most corporate training comes from the land of efficiency. Which is great if you’ve got a clear plan and you know what to do to achieve it.
But executing new ideas on the path to innovation doesn’t always follow a clear plan. Sometimes, all you’ve got is a clear problem and a fuzzy goal, and making progress is much like jazz (improvised yet working, and if you stuff it up you just keep on playing and incorporate it into the flow).
Your classic goal-setting expert would spend a lot of time trying to get you clear on your vision and goal. I, on the other hand, (having completed a PhD on the topic) know when to ignore that tact, and instead focus on making clever happen.
So, if you’re keen to get some gamestorming, rapid-prototyping, gameful ideas execution savvy happening amongst your team, get in touch to learn more!