Innovation Services

“The human element is the difference between success and failure. Innovation failure is really the failure to invest in the success of people.” Kathy Klotz-Guest

The High Price of Stagnation
Organizations must innovate in order to remain competitive. But what happens when:

• Processes stop working
• People stop working at their potential
• Your employees stop taking risks
• Work becomes unchallenging and uncreative
• The corporate environment stagnates

The cost of static, stagnated environments is a high price. The failure to innovate, create and change internally is a sure way to fail in the marketplace.

Build Competitive Innovation with Humor and Creative Play

Powerfully Funny’s HUMORvention™ is a creative approach to understanding and influencing the human element in your innovation and invention process.

We approach service and product innovation from the understanding that humor plays a critical role in turning creative potential into creative capital. We assist you in looking at the role of your people, processes and environment to create a culture of humor that triggers innovation, market success and bottom-line impact.

Our innovation services are tailored for your organization’s needs! What if your company could better stimulate humor and creative play for the pursuit of competitive innovation? We can help!

HUMORvention™ Workshops and Training

Interested in finding out how humor and play are serious ingredients to innovation? The management of innovation and its components is critical to sustainable competitive advantage.
Our 4 and 8-hour workshops help you increase innovation:

• Learn and apply theories of creativity to catapult your innovative results
• Introduce the humor-innovation connection to improve team performance
• Understand 7 key strategies to leverage your existing resources
• Review innovation case studies and determine best practices for your organization
• Identify specific actions for your “innovation culture” to increase technological innovation

HUMORvention™ Research Services

Think your organization is primed for innovation? How do you know? How do you measure it? Powerfully Funny has developed measures that are correlated with unleashed innovation. We can help you measure, analyze, and interpret findings. Additionally, we offer consulting to help implement strategies based on research findings. Our research helps you:

• Uncover your organization’s preparedness for innovation
• Determine strengths and areas for improvement to save time, money, and resources
• Find out what employees think about innovation drivers and impediments to their own productivity
• Measure your organization against the 13 HUMORvention™ Innovation Competencies
• Receive a comprehensive report of results

HUMORvention™ Innovation Consulting

Powerfully Funny can help your team, department, or organization increase its innovative capital. We start with people – the building blocks of creative potential and focus on where to improve processes and the environment where humor, creativity and innovation intersect. We help you implement customized processes, environmental tune-ups, training, and cultural changes to help your organization turn humor and creative play into strategic bottom-line advantage.

• Gauge whether or not your organization is truly an innovative culture
• Learn what factors in your culture create results and which undermine
• Implement high-impact, customized processes and procedures to increase “innovative ROI” on existing and future programs
• Create an organization that delivers consistent, innovative performance internally and in the marketplace
• Build a training plan for building a cultural mindshift around innovation to help your people increase consistent performance
• Develop an Innovation Plan, leveraging the HUMORvention™ Competencies, to preserve your current investment and accelerate future growth/development

Call to unlock your creative potential.
The only thing you have to lose is the competitive edge!