Innovation Styles

The first, the "Innovation Styles 'Kite'," gives you a clear way to see the relative degree to which you prefer each of the four styles in relation to each other.

Jatin DeSai is CEO of DeSai Learning.

His passion is creating Living Organizations.

The approach to becoming a Living Organization is a values-driven one. Realizing that each organization and person holds different values, the first step is determining what they are.

Full cultural change happens when those values are defined, communicated, and adopted throughout the organization and aligns to purpose, vision, organizational values, and brand.

Alain Rostain, founder of Creative Advantage Inc.

Alain brings a unique combination of skills from his 20 years of experience in the field of corporate creativity and innovation - including an expertise in designing internet-based tools for innovation assessments, and his use of experiential techniques gained from his background in improvisational theatre.

He is editor of the e-zines InnovAgent and Improv-It, and founder of the Applied Improvisation Network.

Combining this experience with his expertise in business innovation and software engineering, Alain stays at the leading edge in bringing innovation consulting, training, assessments and facilitation to his clients in Fortune 100 and 500 companies.

Alain Rostain has taken the lead in making Innovation Styles available to corporations and consultants around the world through his corporate consulting and by automating the evaluation, administration and feedback process.

The second, the "Point" graph, shows the average point between your Visioning/Experimenting and your Modifying/Exploring scores. It is like the "center of gravity" for your "kite" profile."

When your "point" is put on a graph with other people's points, you can gain insights on the group dynamics for innovation.

The numerical value of each score does not indicate a level of innovativeness. Rather, each score indicates the strength of your tendency, disposition and preference among these four distinct approaches to innovation. The higher your raw score for a particular style, the more strongly you prefer to use that style.

Call Dan Browne at DeSai for more information and to learn how to bring Innovation Styles to your company.

860-233-0011 x860

dbrowne@desai.com

William C. Miller is an internationally recognised expert on values-driven innovation who was named in 2005 as one of the top 30 leadership consultants worldwide by "Leadership Excellence".

He developed the concept of Innovation Styles when he was head of the Innovation Management program at SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute) in the mid-1980's.

In 1987, he founded the Global Creativity Corporation, where he furthered his research and consulting on different approaches to innovation in collaboration with dozens of companies in countries as diverse as England, Netherlands, France, India, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Canada, and the USA.

William highlighted the Innovation Styles in two of his four books: Flash of Brilliance: Inspiring Creativity Where You Work (1999, Perseus), recognized as one of "Executive Book Summaries" top 30 business books in the USA for 1999.

His second book, the companion Flash of Brilliance Workbook, was selected in 2000 for the Doubleday Executive Book Club.

William has also been a Guest Faculty member at Stanford University Graduate School of Business and business schools in India.

Have You Ever Been a Part Of...

1. Marketing an innovative idea or product that was not well received?

2. Rolling our a strategy that didn't get full buy-in and participation?

3. Attempting to improve productivity but failing to focus on here-and-now practical solutions?

4. Putting together a team that didn't have the right mix of people to produce the innovation you wanted?

Every person in your organization has the potential for being innovative. Bringing out that potential and focusing it on what really matters-with intergrity-is the challenge we all face in these turbulent times.

Learn how to maximize your potential in these areas and more by contacting DeSai Innovation & Learning.

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A special feature of the Innovation Styles model and profile is its applicability in multi-national settings and in multi-cultural, "intact" work teams - having been successfully applied in a variety of countries and cultures.

The ISP has been used around the world in countries such as:

Canada: Shell Canada
China: Motorola
England: Eli Lilly
France: Marion-Merrill Dow
India: ACC Cement, Excel Industries
Japan: Levi Strauss
Mexico: Starwood Hotels
Netherlands: Philips Electronics
Singapore: Overseas Bank
Spain: Hewlett Packard

USA:
ATT, Chevron, HP, IBM, Kraft, P&G, DuPont, Schwab