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Over 125 research & tools to help you innovate

Research

Case Studies

Get inspired and borrow best practices from some of today's most talked-about innovators. Discover the secrets behind companies including Apple, Kraft, TD Bank, and 18 more.

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Futurist Reports

Put your thinking caps on and glimpse into the future of the biggest trends affecting your business today and discover opportunities for innovation for your organization. These thought-leadership reports dispense cutting-edge perspectives on innovation.

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Innovator Interviews

Take a quick peek inside the minds of some of today's most inspiring entrepreneurs and innovators. Hear how real people have made innovation work in their organizations, from leaders such as Tony Tomazic of Humana, Anne Carullo of Estee Lauder, Sue Brush of Westin Hotels & Resorts, and 12 more.

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Resource Lists

Handpicked by the futurethink team, these innovation resources span a variety of subjects including: idea management software, mobile apps, blogs, ideation tools, books, and more.

Tools

Essentials Guides

Build your innovation capabilities from the ground up with these comprehensive “how-to” workbooks. Start innovating the right way with How to Develop an Innovation Strategy, How to Enhance Idea Generation, and two more guides.

Advanced Guides

Solve your most pressing innovation challenges with these step-by-step guides. You'll follow proven methods for tackling tasks such as setting innovation metrics, rewarding employees, evaluating ideas, taking better risks during innovation, and more.

Program-Building Tools

Overcome typical "business as usual" hurdles and build a winning innovation program quickly and more effectively.

Skill-Building Tools

Tap into your organization's underdeveloped and unrecognized abilities to innovate. You'll find new ways to bring meetings to life with these detailed facilitation guidelines and worksheets.

Idea Generation Tools

Generate both incremental and breakthrough ideas based on your business objectives with these tools. Mind-stretching techniques include 40 New Opportunities, What If?, From Impossible to Possible, Hunting Grounds, and 14 more.

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Cheat Sheets

Use these quick-glance downloads as handy reminders for how to be and stay innovative, both personally and professionally. We provide tips and techniques to jump-start innovation, hold lively and productive brainstorms, and much, much more.

Client Quotes

  • “We need to look beyond our organization's walls to innovate.”
    Mehmoon Khan, Global Leader, Innovation Process Development, Unilever Unilever
  • “futurethink's sessions included excellent examples and energizing exercises that brought innovation to life. They got us to look at our business with new eyes.”
    Joan P. Lawrence-Ross, Chief Learning Officer, AXA
  • “Innovation is deliberate, if done well. There is a science and process to it. futurethink has done their homework to provide a wealth of practical knowledge to their customers.”
    Senior Vice President of Innovation, Wells Fargo Wells Fargo
  • “Any innovative company must develop processes for understanding and responding to consumer needs in a very focused way. Otherwise, they're just inventors, they're not necessarily innovators.”
    Tony Tomazic, Director of Consumer Innovations, Humana Humana
  • “futurethink's proven methodology, research, and tools help ensure we're always ready to meet the evolving public service challenges of tomorrow.”
    Sandy Stosz, Rear Admiral, United States Coast Guard United States Coast Guard
  • “futurethink is the innovation expert. They fine-tune their training to our clients' needs. I'm constantly looking for new opportunities to engage them in our work.”
    Brian Weberg, Director, National Conference of State Legislatures
  • “Working with futurethink was a very rewarding experience for our team. They brought a great combination of provocative outside ideas, market perspective and a program design that challenged us to think of our own business in more innovative ways.”
    Jim Daly, Vice President of Human Resources, Standard & Poor's Standard & Poor's
  • “futurethink is enabling us to build critical innovation skills and share best practices across our global organization.”
    Jeff Honious, Vice President of Innovation, Reed Elsevier Reed Elsevier
  • “If you don't make innovation a strategic part of your business plan and you don't drive that into the culture, I don't think you'll have a strong innovation pipeline.”
    Mark Hausfeld, Innovation Manager, Global Business Services, Procter & Gamble Procter & Gamble
  • “futurethink made the topic of innovation, which means different things to different people, real, meaningful, and actionable.”
    Steven Rubinow, Chief Information Officer, NYSE Euronext NYSE Euronext Logo
  • “The futurethink workshop not only provided an incredible jolt of energy to our collective innovation efforts and established the common understanding of innovation concepts, but it was also a wonderful team-building event. I don’t think it could have been organized and conducted any better.”
    Michael Ripa, Manager, FRI Infomatics
  • “The futurethink team did an outstanding job in designing and facilitating an innovation event for our senior leaders, many of who regarded this as the best innovation workshop that they had ever been a part of. I would recommend futurethink to any organization that is looking for clear and actionable pathways to Innovation.”
    Wayne Pethrick, Director, Marketing and Consumer Insights, Pitney Bowes Pitney Bowes
  • “futurethink is always thinking ahead about learning and 'innovate' it before we ask! Their programs have been a huge success with our teams.”
    Director of Learning & Development, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Sonovian Pharmaceuticals
  • “futurethink made my leadership team think in new ways and helped us develop winning business ideas right in the room. My team now embraces innovation rather than fearing it.”
    Mary Fennoglio, Managing Director, Citigroup Corporate Investment Bank Citigroup
  • “If you don't innovate, be creative and look to the future and the possibilities of what will evolve over time, you will cease to be relevant.”
    Randy Voss, Senior Manager, Global Strategy & Business Development, Whirlpool Whirlpool
  • “futurethink's research and 'how-to' tools have been essential to building our innovation program.”
    Cindy Morgan, Innovation Manager, New England Federal Credit Union New England Federal Credit Union