INNOVATION BOUND LLC
SEMINOLE, FLORIDA

NASA MISSIONS Complex challenges exist across various sectors, economies, and countries, and we've been there to help accelerate innovation efforts. Here are some examples of our past projects with Fortune 500 enterprises and beyond. Innovation dies...with middle managers. It doesn't matter that 'innovation' is in the mission statement or that you hire the most creative people if your directors and managers don't know how to support and integrate change. This learning experience was cocreated by Innovation Bound, and three other extraordinary training firms. The first two days were dedicated to strategy and research. This was followed by a three-day business case building challenge, and topped off with a collaborative design session. Training top talent is ultimately an act of stewardship. The future CEO of the company is in the room, and she has the potential to do incredible things. The learning architecture we built took into account the career evolution of these high potentials, and the intricacies of innovation at our client's organization. An innovation team in the US segment of a Fortune 500 company had crafted an innovation system, and having tuned it to work efficiently in the US, took it to their international hubs. As you may have predicted, the system broke down. We worked with our client to create their own language of innovation, which was rolled out to all levels of leadership. Over the three years of our engagement there was a tangible and dynamic change in the organization's culture. In our experience we have never seen a culture of innovation so strong develop so quickly. We are very proud of our client. A group of forward-thinking managers and their VP set out to learn what creativity and innovation skills can do to help them heed those changes, or become leaders in disruptive change. As part of their effort, they hired us to run a half-day in-person training on CPS (Creative Problem Solving) skills, and six weekly webinars to follow. How does investment drive impact in economic development? In this project our team designed and facilitated a dynamic all-hands meeting, followed by a hackathon, to help the innovation group inside of a development bank answer this question. The meeting included people from all levels of the organization, and was facilitated in English and Spanish. Participants identified core challenges, delved into their core competencies and took a good hard look at their culture. They crafted strategy, began to make major shifts in their culture and demonstrated beautifully the key characteristics of a high-functioning team. Storytelling is one of the oldest art forms, and in this project we used it to improve the sales performance of a large tech firm's North America regional team. We utilized immersive webcasts, easy-to-use templates, and a little bit of friendly competition to turn the sales team into expert storytellers and improve the effectiveness of their engagement with clients. Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation is a USAID-funded program that spurs private sector investment in disseminating new technologies in developing countries to help smallholder farmers build profitable, sustainable businesses. We designed and facilitated a workshop to help accelerate innovative efforts within the program. Contact us to learn about more of our past projects, or follow our company on