Aperian Global's Innovation practice utilizes a model based on years of in-depth research at some of the world's most innovative firms. Our approach does not rely on quick-fix solutions, but offers practical measures that can be taken at the individual, team, and organizational levels and at different stages in the process that leads from invention to commercialization. We provide diagnostic tools, consulting, and training services that enable companies and their employees to innovate on a global basis while amplifying the impact of new products and services.
Consulting
Innovation Systems Consulting: Innovation occurs most readily when there is a supportive organizational context that provides a kind of "hothouse" environment. In order to create such an environment, it is necessary to align various levels of the organizational activity: individual, team, managerial, organizational systems, corporate culture, and cross-border. There are also important success factors for interfacing with customers to create products and services that meet both articulated and unarticulated needs. Our consultants can work with you to identify when there is lack of alignment and to enable alignment to take place.
Training
Global Innovation Workshops: Innovation is the fundamental source of fresh value, profit, and customer satisfaction. Companies that innovate on a global scale are able to leverage these competitive advantages across a wide range of markets. However, there are many barriers to innovation, including varying customer requirements and the challenge of transferring new ideas, products, or services across borders.
Aperian Global's innovation workshops focus on increasing global innovation at multiple levels: individual, managerial, team, and organization-wide. We help individuals and companies to diagnose their current innovation competencies and ways to bring new value to the marketplace. While some innovations must be transmitted from headquarters to subsidaries, innovative global teams, project groups, and individual subsidiary employees can become more significant contributors in the process of innovation as well.
Innovation Leadership Workshop & Coaching: Company leaders in different locations around the world may be accustomed to running a tight ship, meeting short-term targets, and controlling expenses, but are not necessarily champions of innovation. As an organization shifts in the direction of more rapid change and the introduction of new products and/or business models, their established leadership styles can sometimes become an obstacle to progress. Or, young high potential leadership candidates might face unfamiliar challenges as they take control of the larger organizational units that need to accelerate the pace of change.
Aperian Global's Innovation Leadership program combines an introductory workshop, followed by up to six months of one-on-one coaching sessions to ensure that key innovation concepts are applied.
Web Tools
Global Innovation OnlineSM: In our Innovation practice, we utilize our Global Innovation Online web tool to diagnose an organization's current state of innovative health. This customizable web-based assessment also becomes the foundation for our recommendations on how best to accelerate business growth. We do not simply offer cookie-cutter "best practices," but look together with the client at what is already working within the organization and how to augment it with new or adapted measures that fit and transcend existing practices.
For more information on Aperian Global's Innovation solutions, please contact us.
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