“The ‘surplus society’ has a surplus of similar companies, employing similar people, with similar educational backgrounds, coming up with similar ideas, producing similar things, with similar prices and similar quality.”

—Kjell Nordström and Jonas Ridderstråle, Funky Business


Our Store features many innovation tools.

Our Video Programs teach the proven techniques of intentional innovation.

Our Workshop Trainings help organizations weave innovation into their everyday activities and consistently inspire the best from everyone on their team.

Our Strategy Sessions are immersive, entertaining, no-holds-barred experiences that deliver surprising new solutions.

We Speak at Events conferences, trade shows, and other keynote gatherings.

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About: “Innovation Strategy Session”

“Dr. Knute Buehler, MD”
—The Center, Bend, OR

Books

Driving Growth Through Innovation
by Robert B. Tucker

Driving Growth Through Innovation

Business managers know that cost-cutting measures cannot create long-term growth. Greater revenues require sustained innovation. In this book, Robert B. Tucker provides a practical step-by-step method any business can use to identify opportunities and encourage innovations that capitalize on them. Readers learn to create an environment that nurtures and rewards innovation; to ensure that creative ideas lead to breakthroughs; and to analyze and predict the future of their industry and their customers. Numerous case studies explore companies that have excelled at innovative thinking, detailing how their methods, procedures, and corporate cultures create sustained success.

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