Syniad Innovation Summit  ©

A process to find the best new ideas in your company; accelerating Innovation, Synergy and Employee Engagement.

Background:

• We have gotten very good at process improvement from Deming to Kaizen.
• Computing has made great progress in automating anything rote or redundant.
• Access to information and communication has improved remarkably.
• Therefore, our people are well informed and have increasing time to think and innovate.
• Plus, technology has enabled us to easily use the collective wisdom of our employees.
• The Syniad process accelerates the innovation cycle in a company by drawing up and crowd sourcing the best new ideas from our people.

The Innovation System

• The opportunity of all companies is to grow revenue via innovations and incremental product and service improvements. But to discover and deploy those innovations, you need to ensure that the Innovation System is as robust as the Improvement System.
• Wikipedia defines an Innovation System as “the interaction between the actors who are needed in order to turn an idea into a process, product or service on the market”.
• The system needs to include several discreet processes:
• Finding good ideas
• Vetting good ideas with market place
• Providing feedback to the actors to enhance the learning loop
• Planning initiatives
• Executing the initiatives
• Measuring results

The Syniad Innovation Summit gives you a chance to:

• Mine good ideas among your employees
• Increase the culture of innovation
• Inspire and energize your people
• Increase engagement in the company

Let us know if you would like more information. Contact us at nancy@woodscreek.com or call us at (360) 794-8303 for additional information.

Merger Survival Guide 
$495

One of the few factors proven through research to make a difference in the success or failure of a merger is speed. Our Merger Survival Guide is designed to help you get through the key areas of merger impact and complete the integration quickly and successfully. The contents include information on:

• Understanding a merger overall / key areas of human impact and what to expect
• Establishing integration goals / describing success in human and financial terms
• Teams of leaders from the merging companies to guide the integration
• Setting up communication to and from the people
• Conducting a gap analysis on culture, leadership, business models, operations and stage of growth
• Successfully integrating operation for the company, the departments and the the individuals
• List for integrating the Human Resource areas (employee policies, compensation and benefits)

We provide a disc with drafts for several commonly used documents to make it easy for you to grab it and go. The Merger Survival Guide notebook, the disc and one hour of phone consultation with one of our experienced consultants are all included in the $495 price. Contact us at nancy@woodscreek.com or call us at (360) 794-8303 for additional information.

Fast Growth Map 
$195

Fast growth is exciting. However, it also creates many challenges, especially in the early stages of business development when you are grappling with everything from establishing market presence, to hiring the right people, to building the processes to creating the culture. Our Fast Growth Map is designed to help you sort out the work related to organizational effectiveness so you can use your precious time wisely.

In the Fast Growth Map we cover:

• Organizational Effectiveness - what it includes
• The three ways companies grow - momentum, mass and maturity - and how each affects your business.
• How to develop and evolve the key internal processes (leadership, communication, planning and measurement).
• Descriptions for each process in early stage to the next.
• A map to track your work so you will know where you are leading and where you are lagging on each element.

The price of $195 includes the Map, a disk with a draft of the map, and one hour of phone consultation with one of our experienced consultants. Contact us at nancy@woodscreek.com or call us at (360) 794-8303 for additional information.

Leadership Card Game
$195

A deck of over 100 leadership attributes set up so you can sort the deck to quickly identify the leadership attributes most important for your organization. The deck comes as a word doc you can edit to fit your situation and includes directions for use.

The Book - The Founder Factor

'Insider Secrets to Growing a Billion Dollar Business'

$19.95

By Nancy Truitt Pierce

When founders, boards and executive teams get together to build a billion dollar business, they often fail to realize that what's required in a leader during the early stages of growth is altogether different than what's needed later on. The characteristics of leadership so crucial in a company's infancy - the vision, the drive, the creative genius - are not the same qualities needed in a big company. This book is about the journey from entrepreneurial start up to a high impact company and the pitfalls you can avoid along the way.