Learn from everyone involved in the problem.

We start by asking, “What’s the problem?” and listening to each point of view, learning what each stakeholder knows. We facilitate constructive conflict to create statements with words that communicate clear intent and lead to the consensus from all participants.

The result is hard to have conversations that get to the real issues using IdeaScale, the world’s leading innovation management platform. Moderated to maintain focus, and managed to stay on schedule, activities are measured to identify who signed up and who leaned in. 

The result is a 67% higher rate of active participants who understand the process, have the individual confidence to fully participate, and are prepared to move forward together.

Once approved, the Problem Statement becomes a true North Star, guiding all future work, answering “is what we are about to do bringing us closer to, or farther away from our goals?”

Let’s work together on new ideas.

ORGANIZE MOTIVATED PEOPLE

Participants with similar or related focus form teams, each with a unique perspective, life experience, or related skill set. This diversity of people interested in solving the same problems produces greater outcomes in the forms of more relevant ideas that have the potential to impact the problem.

This approach to team building has proven to reduce costs, reduce time to implementation, and create a more innovative culture.

APPLY DESIGN THINKING TO CREATE NEW IDEAS

Teams complete a Design Thinking workshop to apply what they have learned and rapidly prototype a potential solution.

The team gains experience building Empathy, a key component of Design Thinking, and confirms they are working on the right problem within the Define stage. This double-check ensures the ideas created during Ideate will be on point, and the prototype will be appropriate to the solution.

Based on objective community evaluation, and leadership assessment of the data, the best ideas are moved forward with confidence into accelerated development.

From Problem Statement to Prototype.

SETUP FOR SUCCESS

Teams are coached by The Idea Guy to create a powerful Problem Statement, adding language that motivates participants to address key performance indicators.

With clear intent, a Problem Plan is created to document the work ahead required to create a viable, feasible, and desirable solution within the time allocated. This results in an organized team, with clear direction, focusing on new ideas for the right problem.

GO/NO GO EACH STEP OF THE WAY

Each step of the Design Thinking process is executed with go/no-go requirements. This means that no team can progress to the next step without completing the required work. When each step is completed according to the Problem Plan, the team learns best practices, ensuring consistency in the process, producing the best outcomes.

Presenting ideas for feedback and evaluation.

Teams are coached on how to best communicate their new ideas for evaluation by everyone in the community. Using customized rubrics, we collect quantitative and qualitative feedback to calculate the learning from the crowd.

Addressing feasibility, viability, and desirability, amongst other criteria, the crowd shared what it sees in each idea. Based on this learning, leadership can confidently assess the potential for each idea, and the return on innovation.

Leadership now has the information to make informed decisions on solutions based on well-vetted insights from experts and people involved throughout the problem.

New ideas that solve business problems.

The Innovation Funnel is a repeatable process to create engagement with a remote workforce. Built on the world’s largest innovation management platform, What’s Your Problem?™ is proven to accelerate innovation.

This program increases an organization’s ability to respond to current issues providing a manageable process for leaders, managers, and staff to collaborate.

Each time an organization executes the process, they improve their ability to identify real problems that decrease costs, increase revenue, and help gain measurable insights.