We offer our clients a complete solution to build their capability and capacity to innovate. This involves consulting, facilitation, solution design right up to learning programmes. This can range from conducting 1 hour talks, running innovation workshops, conducting innovation surveys, creating innovative spaces, designing innovation processes, building a team of innovation catalyst or even developing an extensive strategy to get the whole organization to innovate.
Our engagement with our clients can happen at four stages: (Mouseover the different stages to read more)
Stage 1: Building awareness on the importance of innovation
Stage 2: Building capability and a portfolio of innovative ideas & solutions
Stage 3: Building courage to choose and the capacity to execute innovative solutions
Stage 4: Building the capacity to follow through and create value with these solutions.
Our consulting solutions help our clients explore some of the following questions:
Where can we innovate?
What is the best approach for innovation to happen in our organization?
Do we have the right elements for innovation to happen?
How can I be more systematic in innovating?
How do we build our people’s capability to innovate?
How do we create a culture of innovation?
How do I track my innovation projects?
Solution Design
We collaborate with our clients to develop solutions to their challenges by surfacing issues in a safe and systematic manner. This will help create ownership of the challenges, solutions and outcomes generated. Our role is to challenge and provoke our client’s minds, instead of offering tried and tested ideas and solutions.
Insight and Idea Generation sessions
Explorations and Prototyping session
Visualize and Imagine sessions
Strategy development and selection session
Open communication and polling session
Innovation space and Centers
Innovation Management Systems (IMS)
Management retreat and renewal sessions
Innovation library and resources
Learning & Workshops
We deliver a range of learning and development solutions to help our clients build the capability of their employees to innovate. Our learning sessions can be adapted for young executives right up to top management and board of directors level. Our learning offerings include:
Workshops and Learning Sessions
Catalyst for Change ® Workshop Series
Speeches, Talks, Forums and Seminars
Espresso Workshop – Short and intense learning sessions
Innovation Tours and Excursions
Coaching and reflection sessions
Our learning philosophy
Our view is that there is a huge difference between training and learning. Training, is driven by the trainer with specific learning
objectives, while learning is driven by the interplay of the learner and their context. In addition to that, we believe that learning should engage an individual’s whole mind and body. Therefore in all our learning or workshop sessions, we use plenty of facilitation techniques to draw out the participant’s experience and also to make the entire learning process deeper and engaging. We have also introduced several innovative and unconventional approaches in our learning sessions such as the use of:
Visual Thinking Techniques using playdough, oil pastel, graphics, etc.
Design Thinking using Lego, Physical materials and many others
Metaphors e.g. Juggling, Story telling, Akido etc.
Innovation Activation Series
Innovation Activation - this workshop introduces the participants to the basics of innovation based on the Catalyst for Change ® innovation framework.
Innovation Activation Team - this workshop builds on the first Innovation Activation workshop with a stronger emphasis on building the capability to innovate in a team.
Leadership Activation - this workshop is designed to build the leaderships skills necessary to facilitate and drive innovation and change in teams and organizations.
Innovation Activation Project - a project based workshop that is focused on developing an innovative solution in various areas such as new product development, systems design or gaining customer insight.
Strategic Change & Innovation - workshop on strategic thinking, foresight and strategic innovation formulation that focuses on driving growth and high performance through innovation on large scale.
Energy Activation Series
Energy Foundation - This workshop focuses on managing an individual’s energy level and uncovering sources of stress and ways to overcome them.
Energy Activation: High Performance under Pressure - This workshop focuses on strategies for achieving high performance, emotional and mental resilience through advanced stress management and brain enhancement techniques.
Advanced Energy Fitness - This workshop is targeted for people under extreme pressure or intense projects who desire a sustained high performance. The workshop also helps participants identify and assist others who are under energized. Advanced level of relaxation techniques are included.
Catalyst for Change ® Workshop Series
The Catalyst for Change ® Workshop series is derived from Alpha Catalyst's experience in consulting, facilitating and running workshops for more than 1000 people, from different countries, diverse industries and across various levels. In the wake of globalization, Asian businesses need to embrace the need to constantly change to remain competitive. We believe that to face these challenges, organizations need to develop the capability of the individual to innovate, ensuring that they have the energy to sustain and face up to these new challenges and lastly encourage and propagate innovation as a leader.
We have created a framework that is pragmatic, easy to grasp and consistent with the evolving Asian culture and values. The workshops are highly context driven, deliberately interactive and practical; to meet the needs of demanding senior and middle managers in organizations seeking to renew themselves or those braving new frontiers. The series of workshops acts as a catalyst towards an exciting transformation.
Workshop 1: Innovation Activation - The Chemistry of Creativity and Constraints
This workshop is designed to expose participants to the fundamentals of innovation in order to build their personal capacity and capability to innovate, to develop new solutions to problems and challenges and achieve high performance.
Workshop 2: Energy Activation: Excelling Under Pressure
This workshop is designed to help individuals accomplish greater heights of achievement through proper energy management and renewal.
This workshop is designed to help participants understand the fundamentals of innovation in order to help them facilitate and drive innovation and change in their department or organization.
Espresso Workshops
Innovation
Embracing Constraints to Innovate
The Rise of the Innovation Economy
Embracing Constraints in Action
Courage to Create
Innovation and the Innovative Mindset
Energy Management
Keeping your energy up in the office
Feeding the Brain
Rapid Energy Recharging
Identifying Energy Predators and Overcoming It
Corporate & Social Innovation
We work hand in hand with the corporate and public community to help spur innovation at multiple levels. We have worked with various universities (IIUM, UITM, LUCT), non- profit organizations and have also supported various events in organizations under this umbrella.
Innovation and the Innovative Mindset @ Limkokwing University - 4th November 2008
In conjunction with the GEW, ACC, a partner of GEW in Malaysia, kicked off their list of events with a talk at LUCT which was appropriately entitled “Innovation and the Innovative Mindset”.
The event was organized by the Business school and was held at the Hall of Fame at LUCT, Cyberjaya. This was attended by about 150 students and lecturers of LUCT mainly from the Business and ICT Faculty. The main objective is to share with them the importance of innovation and the mindset required to innovate.
It was hailed as a very engaging session by the students, many whom subsequently stayed back to seek further information. During the session, attendees managed to profile their preferred thinking style and was exposed to simple yet prolific examples of innovation.
