Leaders and Managers need to explore the Future with Imagination versus recognising what they already know and repeating the Past. They need to develop the courage and the capacity to see things differently and to creatively reinvent their approaches instead of just "rearranging" their furniture in the same room!
Innovation requires a favorable context. Without the proper "States of Minds", the competences and the necessary methods, a company has a tendency to draw back towards the Past or to remain in the status quo.
Our approaches give a company the capacity to develop a Culture of Inventiveness and Innovation. They place Creativity and Innovation at the heart of the company's "Raison d'être", Strategy, Culture, Processes and Practices.
Our methods and tools boost the development of the Mindsets and Skillsets required for successful Innovation, i.e. creative Thinking, mental agility, new ways of seeing, thinking and doing, the capacity to move more quickly and more often from "Breakthrough Thinking" to "Breakthrough Growth".
Your company can thus develop a major, durable, hard-to-duplicate competitive advantage which is the collective capacity to learn, to innovate and to reinvent itself faster than its competitors and, at the same time, invent its Future while managing its Present.
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We have gained extensive international experience in bringing "Serious Creativity" ® to companies.
We can provide Advice, Training, Facilitation of Strategic Creative Sessions and Expert Assistance to Think Tanks.
Transfer through Training and Coaching : Boosting "Serious Creativity" ® as an individual and collective Skill
We design and facilitate customised training sessions to transmit the "Creative Activist" tools and methods that boost people and teams creative skills. We use our own methodologies and the ones we selected, among which the "Six Thinking Hats" ® and "Lateral Thinking" ®, time-tested, proven around the world thinking methods invented by Dr. Edward de Bono.
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Thinking Clubs: skills and solutions incubators
Thinking clubs allow the practice of "Serious Creativity" ® in real life conditions among people who must really generate results with one another. As mini infrastructures for the learning and practice of Creative Thinking, Thinking Clubs are a simple, efficient and easy way to develop Creativity as a skill.
"MAT" (Mobile Assistance in Thinking): creative assistance for collaborative and innovative sessions on key issues
We help you stretch your mind, take a new look at information, develop new perspectives and insights, get out of vicious circles, boost the creative phase and detect new growth opportunities."MAT" helps you get "unstuck", create new paths towards the Future and turn meetings into productive Thinking sessions.
Creative outsource : we become your Think Tank on demand
We offer you the possibility to use us as an "Expert External Think Tank", source of new ideas and concepts on specific issues that you consider vital.
Challenging Partner
We offer you an Expert "Sounding Board" you can use to test new creative concepts and ideas in different fields of your activity such as services, products, communication, distribution, processes etc.
Naming services Name It! Sell It!
We assist you in finding the original, meaningful and "catchy" name(s), baselines and slogans that will contribute to your company's, services and products' success.
The "Creative Thinking" imperative
To design innovative ways forward and shape our Future for the best, it is vital to move away from just recognising standard situations and providing standard answers.
The 2010 IBM Global CEO Study, conducted among 1541 leaders accros the world, reveals that today's CEOs consider that Creativity trumps other leadership characteristics. "We need to find, recognize and reward creativity." CEOs saw the need to seed creativity across their organizations rather than set apart "creative types" in siloed departments like product design.
Today's challenges call for us to tap on all of the Creativity and Knowledge at our disposal. They require a Creative - even "Revolutionary", not incremental - Thinking to invent the widest range of solutions for the challenges now facing our lives.