Innovation Engineering Workshops
Experience the New Way of Thinking about Innovation

Innovation Engineering Workshops provide a sampling of the basics of the Innovation Engineering Mindset on how to CREATE, COMMUNICATE & COMMERCIALIZE Meaningfully Unique Ideas.

The Innovation Engineering Workshops are taught using the Cycles to Mastery™ teaching system.  It’s a system of learning that has been found in University research to be 4 times more effective than classic training programs.   

Each public Workshop involves a series of digital classes that are watched in advance and one compressed day of both both LAB Classes that drive deeper understanding through case study examples.  And APPLICATION Classes where you begin the process of applying the learning to your company situation. The Innovation Engineering Workshops include:  

CREATE:  Here you learn the new mindset that creates a 6x increase in the number of high quality ideas versus classic “brainstorming.”  It features a special focus on how to enable active learning from customer insights, marketplace benchmarking, technology and future mining.  And, how to leverage a collaboration mindset to create an exponential increase in effectiveness. 

COMMUNICATE: This workshop exposes you to the new “outside in” thinking approach that doubles your odds of success by turning sales and marketing into a customer pull system.  It also provides a simple way for defining ideas so that everyone - from front line worker to the CEO can speak the same language. 

COMMERCIALIZE:  This workshop is a transformation in how to reduce innovation risk.   Instead of attempting to “plan, study and study away risk” you learn the new Fail FAST Fail CHEAP™ approach.  It’s a modern and accelerated version of the classic Deming learning cycle of “Plan, Do, Study, Act” applied to innovation. 

What’s Next:  Innovation Engineering Workshops cover 6 of the 48 Skills that make up the Innovation Engineering Body of Knowledge.  For most companies the next step is either to make the full commitment to Innovation Engineering Management system or take a deeper step with an Innovation Engineering Jump Start.  Note, for some very small companies we have found that I.E. Workshops are all they need or that they can afford to invest the time and money in to help them accelerate profitable growth.  

Private Events:  Private Innovation Engineering Workshops can be done for your company. Private workshops can be presented to maximize effectiveness or efficiency.  The most effective method is to have three separate classes providing time for greater application and synthesis.  The most efficient is to conduct the classes in one compressed day. 

The Innovation Engineering program in Topeka, Kansas was a sell out with people on the waiting list. All I can say is WOW! Many participants have already said that they are implementing techniques as we are in our organization. 

Innovation Engineering should be mandatory for all organizations. The techniques and approaches presented will help any organization succeed as we move into a volatile era.  No one should let this opportunity go untapped.


Steve R. Jenkins, CEcD
Senior Vice President - Economic Development
Greater Topeka Chamber of Commerce/GO Topeka

"This workshop gave me the tools to start thinking in a more creative way, beyond the typical brainstorming."

Barb Hogan, CIMx

"Energetic, Applicable, Actionable... can't wait to get started failing, winning & profiting."

- Bob Pautke, President
  Pro Train Career Services