Building the workshop ready for innovation is deliberately designed to help you think through many productive innovating and creative opportunities. For example:

1. Understanding the trends and drivers in your industry and exploring alternative perspectives allows you to look at not just ‘best practices’ but leading and emerging practices.

2. Look constantly outside your organization to ‘see’ and collaborate from the values of applying open innovation principles and techniques

3. Fostering the culture and climate for Innovation to work inside your organization can create the environment you are looking for, but it takes a real understanding.

4. We all need to be aware of the way we earn our profit and where and why, and it becomes absolutely vital that our innovation activity fully aligns with the strategic needs

5. Complete differently in the value chain- what it gives from new Business Models and discovering new opportunities to energize your business in different ways

6. When we stop and look at customers in different ways to listen to their needs, we can discover new innovation opportunities and then how do you discover those unarticulated ones?

7. Expand into new markets and customers thoughtfully using the core within your business, exploring the adjacency spaces and probing those ‘white spaces’ needs careful consideration.

8. Develop new product, services, structures and processes needs debate and understanding

9. Pursue a range of degrees of novelty to generate a greater sense of innovation and possibility

10. Being able to sustain your momentum and make innovation repeatable does need a broad identification and set of discussions to raise awareness and build those capabilities and capacities well.

These journeys are personal ones as well as team-forming opportunities.