Dynamic and strategically adaptive tools are essential. They are needed to maintain the integrity of the planning process and its corresponding vision. The planning process needs strengthening. This will allow the team to interact with the business’ challenges. It helps them gain a stronger, deeper, and dynamic understanding of how to shape and influence the future.
Current business challenges require being able to apply specific tools or models across varying and complex environments. Deterministic tools of the past are no longer adequate for supporting this leap.
Factors that influence the rise & fall of businesses are interactive and dynamic. Yet, the business model tools we often depend on for planning and strategic efforts are usually deterministic and inflexible.
TOOLS & WIDGETS
The following widgets and resources are used within each tool to help strengthen the reader’s understanding of each innovation model:
The following interactive tools are available. They supplement your team’s training and professional development. These tools support strategic vision and goal setting. They establish benchmarks for future planning and strategic efforts.
Models
Learn New Innovation Models
Strategy
Introduce Teams to New Strategies
Practice
Practice what you Learned
Test
Interactive Tools to Test Your Knowledge
Standards
Identify Best Practices
Improve
Identify Areas for Continuous Improvement
Lead
Champion Your Insights & New Ideas
Plan
Put Your Plan into Action
AVAILABLE INTERACTIVE TOOLS
Poster: Leadership Innovation – In a Box
Transform the way you lead, plan, and grow with Leadership Innovation in a Box. It is a comprehensive collection of interactive tools. These tools are designed to fuel strategic thinking, inspire innovation, and empower leadership at every level of your organization.
These tools is built for business owners, executives, and team leads. It is also for project managers, consultants, and nonprofit leaders. They are ready to take a fresh approach to planning and problem-solving.
You might be launching a new initiative or rethinking your strategy. Maybe you’re aligning cross-functional teams. Perhaps you’re navigating organizational change. Leadership Innovation in a Box gives you the structure and creativity you need to move forward with confidence.
Inside the toolkit, you’ll find proven tools for vision mapping and team alignment. You’ll also find tools for strategic goal setting and stakeholder engagement. Systems thinking, process improvement, change management, and more are included.
Each resource is designed to be practical, flexible, and adaptable to your specific needs. You can use them when facilitating a leadership retreat. They are also useful when hosting a planning workshop or coaching your team through transformation.
These aren’t just worksheets—they’re powerful catalysts for collaboration, insight, and momentum. You’ll find that they naturally spark important conversations, uncover blind spots, and bring clarity to complex challenges.
Use them to build consensus, align values with action, and drive initiatives that deliver results.
What makes this toolkit stand out is its emphasis on accessibility and empowerment. You don’t need to be an expert strategist or facilitator—just bring your curiosity, commitment, and willingness to explore new possibilities.
Leadership Innovation in a Box provides clear instructions. It includes guided prompts and real-world examples. It helps teams of all sizes take ownership of their planning process. Additionally, it elevates their leadership capacity.
If you’re ready to strengthen your business, engage your team on a deeper level, and lead with purpose, this solution is ideal. Leadership Innovation in a Box meets your needs.
You can engage your team on a deeper level. You can lead with purpose. Leadership Innovation in a Box is for you. It is your ultimate planning companion. It provides precision and clarity in your leadership journey. Unlock your potential. Accelerate your impact. Lead the future—starting today.
Elevate Your Knowledge Management with SharePoint Tools
Effective Knowledge Management is a competitive advantage.
It is critical to strengthen product and service differentiation. It is also essential to design and execute effective, sustainable, and adaptive strategies at scale. Check out the new Interactive Tool
Unlocking Practical Innovation for Business Growth
Practical Innovation doesn’t begin with disruption or pursuing an objective that is out of reach.
It involves identifying opportunities that are closer to home, important to internal & external stakeholders, and building on that foundation. The future is reached in small steps. Check out the new Interactive Tool
Transforming PMOs: Tools and Techniques
Designing your company’s project management office should not follow cookie-cutter approach. But it is also worth acknowledging that individualizing, and managing trade-offs, is not without its risks.
Understanding the risks of less rigorous models is necessary as part of the design process. Check out the new Interactive Tool
Research Innovation: Transforming Ideas into Impact
Research Innovation focuses on ensuring that success is measured. It identifies appropriate goals and strategies. A coherent approach to planning and evaluation is also conducted.
Research fuels innovation and needs to be conducted strategically. Check out the new Interactive Tool
Innovative Strategies for Effective Key Account Management
Key Account Management Innovation identifies unprofitable customers. It distinguishes these from customers who are profitable. These customers also align with the company’s vision for the future.
Building these relationships is crucial if the company’s business model is to grow and become stronger. Understanding which customers support this vision is just the first step. Check out the new Interactive Tool
Elevate Your Strategy with Innovation KPI Insights
Measuring Innovation is not a simple task. Many project teams are evaluated on key performance indicators (KPI’s) that are not central to the company’s strategic vision.
Understanding which KPI’s to focus on is just the first step. Setting the foundation to ensure that the KPI’s are supported requires the entire company to establish. Check out the new Interactive Tool
Maximizing M&A Success through Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise architecture includes the business and technology tools, assets, and resources used to run the business. Alignment is crucial. Check out the new Interactive Tool
Revolutionize Your Processes for Operational Success
Operations innovation includes the processes, tools, and strategies deployed every day to keep the business running. Improvements in this area distribute efficiencies and gains throughout the system.
Explore some of the operations excellence and process improvement tools commonly used in the business sector. Check out the new Interactive Tool
Transform Your Business with Supply Chain Innovation
Supply chain innovation involves improvements to how the business model and relationships are interconnected. Improvements to the supply chain are shared with all the inter-dependencies, and customers, downstream.
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Outsourcing Innovation: A Path to Competitive Advantage
Innovation is a competitive advantage. Outsourcing innovation to an external supplier poses risks. It should be evaluated carefully. Determine if the innovation is an internal competency that should be insourced.
There are many options between outsourcing and insourcing and each has its own challenges. Choose your strategy wisely. Check out the new Interactive Tool
The Art of Product Innovation: Transforming Ideas into Reality
Product innovation involves the steps necessary to understand what functions and features will be considered useful to the customer.
This includes both products and services. Misalignment with customer needs can be costly. Check out the new Interactive Tool
Transforming Business Culture: The Innovation Blueprint
The business culture includes the traditions, beliefs, assumptions, and rituals of the company.
The business culture has a significant influence over how things are done. It affects whether things are done and the tools that are available. Check out the new Interactive Tool
Business Consulting Canvas: A Guide to Effective Project Planning
Professional Services are on the rise. As the economy improves so does the demand for Business Consulting. The skills, abilities, resources, and knowledge to compete in the modern economy are extensive. Even some of the largest corporations find these requirements beyond their grasp.
Healthier economies breed competition as barriers to entrants are decreased. Competitive advantages that exist in an economic downturn are no longer as influential when the economy improves. Check out the new Interactive Tool
Transform Your Construction Projects with Earned Value Insights
Earned Value in construction management involves evaluating how a project is performing. Comparisons are made against the project’s plan as resources are allocated, hours are deployed, and phases are launched.
Adjustments are introduced in response to deviations from the plan in order to manage the project’s scope, schedule, and cost. The customer’s voice is similarly used to insure quality is sustained throughout the project’s lifecycle. Check out the new Interactive Tool
ERP Innovation: A Game Changer for Modern Enterprises
ERP solutions serve as a significant solution to enterprise barriers and their resulting inefficiencies. They should not be adopted without due consideration of the demands they will place on the company. This includes demands on its network.
ERP implementations are often costly and often require company’s to conduct significant reorganization, process engineering, and workflow redesign. Existing silos and non-integrated industry verticals will resist the disruption represented by an ERP implementation. Check out the new Interactive Planning Tool
Transforming Operations Planning Through Innovative Thinking
Operations Planning is responsible for designing, evaluating, implementing, monitoring, and reporting on the department level initiatives. These initiatives and strategies are identified based on the company’s strategic priorities. Success at the operations level feedback upwards to the strategic plan at the corporate and enterprise level.
Understanding the linkages between the strategic plan, business model, and the operations plan is critical as a leader. Check out the new Interactive Planning Tool
The Intersection of Union Membership and Innovation
The focus of Union Membership over the past 100 years has evolved. Innovations, strategies, and values have increasingly aligned with socially progressive ideas. With advances in legislation and regulations, many employers struggle to achieve these socially progressive norms. Innovation and business model modifications often result, albeit slowly.
Proactive advocacy and lobbying of these progressive values have helped move these business models forward into the 21st Century. Check out the new Interactive Planning Tool
Transform Your Ideas with a Strategic Innovation Plan Generator
Innovation does not often happen by accident. Even when it does occur, the company is not always able to leverage the opportunities it represents. This is why a strategic approach to innovation planning, development, and execution is necessary. Without it the innovation will be picked up by the company’s competition.
This online tool is available through the purchase of the Leadership Innovation book available on Amazon. You can also access it via the Android App available online. Each product contains a unique password that can be used to access the Strategic Innovation Plan Generator online.
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Implementing a Corporate Resilience Scorecard for Success
Corporate resilience supports agility and adapting to change environmental demands, innovations, opportunities, and risks. Having a corporate resilience framework is crucial towards supporting a sustainable competitive advantage.
This online tools walks your team through the basic recommendations for strengthening corporate resilience. Pitfalls in general practices are discussed. Recommendations are provided at the end of the essay. An interactive planning tool can be used by your team. It helps create its own unique corporate resilience plan.
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Overcoming Barriers in Organizational Transformation
A readiness assessment can help an organization to better understand its ability to take on an endeavor. However, it will not change its DNA or culture. This requires courage, leadership, and a thoughtful approach that acknowledges internal barriers to change.
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Travis Barker, MPA GCPM
Innovate Vancouver
Innovate Vancouver is a Technology and Business Innovation Consulting Service located in Vancouver, BC. Contact Innovate Vancouver to help with your new project.