Innovation Training - Softcover

As co-founder of InnovationNetwork®, Ruth Ann Hattori has studied how innovation occurs in countless organizations. She has created dozens of learning experiences for individuals and organizations of the topic of innovation, including the annual innovation conference, Convergence.

Having enjoyed remarkable success in the apparel industry for 20 years, Hattori brings a pragmatic business perspective to her work in both innovation and organizational effectiveness. After leaving her post as president of Rocky Mountain Clothing Co., she joined InnovationNetwork, during its transition from a professional association to a business education and virtual innovation resource center. She has led their InnovationUniversity program, written articles on innovation, and created innovation assessment tools.

In addition to her research and writing with InnovationNetwork, Hattori is a principal of Customer Contact Corporation (C³), working directly with organizations to help them improve their collaborative and innovative practices. A founding fellow of InnovationUniversity and alumnus of the Creative Problem Solving Institute, Hattori is passionate about the people side of innovation. She has studied continuous improvement, behavioral linguistics, accelerated learning, and numerous art and creative techniques for learning, and has found a way to bring all of those elements together in a manner that helps organizations be more effective.

Joyce Wycoff is the co-founder of the InnovationNetwork®. For the past 11 years she has studied and articulated the system of innovation and created ways to share findings with innovation practitioners around the world. Since 1994 she has brought leading thinkers and practitioners to a gathering known as Convergence so that they can share their ideas, experiences, and great practices.

Wycoff is a popular keynote speaker, trainer, and facilitator as well as author of four personal productivity books focused on creativity and innovation. Two of these books (Mindmapping and To Do, Doing, Done!) have achieved best-selling classic status and have been published in several languages. She writes a weekly electronic column for some 15, 000 readers and has written numerous magazine articles, booklets, and video scripts.

Wycoff is a die-hard optimist who believes in the proverbial better way. Life has also taught her to be a pragmatist--to look for better ways that work. Her professional background has been a journey from financial management to creativity and innovation, with a lot of side trips along the way. She fervently believes that a committed group of people can change an organization and that enough changed organizations can create a better world.

Wycoff fervently encourages people to explore their personal creativity, and her own creative journey focuses on poetry and intuitive painting, She includes poetry, collage, metaphorical thinking, and other creative exercises in all of her business workshops and keynote speeches.

Finally! Innovation Training gives trainers and group leaders the practical tools and guides to get innovation on track fast. It's a major contribution to this often misunderstood field. --George Land, Chairman, Leadership 2000, the FarSight Group

Innovation legends Ruth Ann Hattori and Joyce Wycoff have taken away all excuses for not taking action on innovation. Their new book makes it easy for everyone to think smarter and more creatively about profitable business innovation. It's a monumental work that gets to the true DNA of what drives success. --Doug Hall, Eureka! Ranch Founder/Chairman, Author of Jump Start your Business Brain

It is amazing to see what can happen when two women who have spent much of their life energy plowing the fields of innovation decide to share their accumulated wisdom and their practical ideas with us. Innovation Training is a massive gift to training and development. --Stephen C. Lundin, Big Tuna PH.D. Author of the four FISH! books

It is amazing to see what can happen when two women who have spent much of their life energy plowing the fields of innovation decide to share their accumulated wisdom and their practical ideas with us. Innovation Training is a massive gift to training and development. --Stephen C. Lundin, Big Tuna PH.D. Author of the four FISH! books

Innovation legends Ruth Ann Hattori and Joyce Wycoff have taken away all excuses for not taking action on innovation. Their new book makes it easy for everyone to think smarter and more creatively about profitable business innovation. It's a monumental work that gets to the true DNA of what drives success. --Doug Hall, Eureka! Ranch Founder/Chairman, Author of Jump Start your Business Brain