Getting to Innovation : How Asking the Right Questions Generates the Great Ideas Your Company Needs

As an acknowledged guru in the field of creativity and innovation, Arthur VanGundy has inspired businesses in a variety of industries to generate more original, cutting-edge ideas. Getting to Innovation is a detailed guide to achieving the critical first step in formulating creative and useful ideas-i.e., asking the right questions that define the challenges facing any organization. Readers will discover: • how to write positioning and rationale statements for each challenge • how to link together multiple objectives in priority frameworks • the top 10 techniques for generating creative ideas • tips for designing and running brainstorming retreats • advice on how to select the best ideas from the many that have been generated When it comes to true innovation, it's not formulating the great ideas, but asking the right questions that will ultimately lead to results. Getting to Innovation offers the tools to help every company tap into its most inspired thinking.

As an acknowledged guru in the field of creativity and innovation, Arthur VanGundy has inspired businesses in a variety of industries to generate more original, cutting-edge ideas. Getting to Innovation is a detailed guide to achieving the critical first step in formulating creative and useful ideas-i.e., asking the right questions that define the challenges facing any organization. Readers will discover:
* how to write positioning and rationale statements for each challenge
* how to link together multiple objectives in priority frameworks
* the top 10 techniques for generating creative ideas
* tips for designing and running brainstorming retreats
* advice on how to select the best ideas from the many that have been generated

When it comes to true innovation, it's not formulating the great ideas, but asking the right questions that will ultimately lead to results. Getting to Innovation offers the tools to help every company tap into its most inspired thinking.

This book allows readers to discover: how to write positioning and rationale statements for each challenge; how to link together multiple objectives in priority frameworks; the top 10 techniques for generating creative ideas; tips for designing and running brainstorming retreats; and, advice on how to select the best ideas from the many that have been generated "Getting to Innovation helps you break free of outdated assumptions and misdirected approaches by asking the most pertinent, meaningful questions about your organization, what it does and does not do, and what it should do. Packed with real-world examples and hundreds of sample questions you can use for your own company."--Jacket