Very much learning from Toyota’s “Genchi Genbutsu”, the beginning of your Innovation Journey is going to require a thorough understanding of your organization, culture, processes, strategy and decision making.

Over the years, we have learned that each organization is unique. Truly, Deeply Unique. We see it as our objective to learn as much as possible about you and your team before we even begin to work on your strategy.

Whether that is through keynote speeches at your strategy meetings, or through training engagements on general topics like Idea Generation, we have learned that we need to take the time to “firmly frame the canvas”, so to speak, before we start to paint.

There is a lot of experience we can share with you, it just needs to be given in a way that makes absorbing, “digesting” it efficient for you.

Read more on the activities in this step:

• Understand Your Wants: Do you have firm plans or a nagging feeling?
• Understand Your Vision: “Getting” the Larger Picture for the organization
• Understand Your Culture: What works, what does not, what orthodoxies exist, what is a sacred cow?