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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.

What?

Six downloadable PDF reports.

Why?

  • Find out which trends can help you stay ahead of the curve
  • Get a critical look at the lessons leading innovators have learned
  • Find out which companies you should be paying attention to right now

Who?

  • Organizational Leaders, High Performers, and Individual Contributors
  • Find out which trends can help you stay ahead of the curve
  • Get a critical look at the lessons leading innovators have learned

Futurist Report: Learning & Development 2.0

Winning Strategies for Superior Programs

Learning & Development is a dynamic field in a state of great transition. How has the world of L&D changed from 2009 to 2010? What forces are driving changes in learning and how can you use them to your advantage? How do you prepare for and contribute to an environment in which learning takes center stage and redefines organizations?

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Tags:
Climate, Future of Training, Learning Environment, Training Trends

Futurist Report: The Future of Learning & Development

Trends, Topics, and Tools to Stay Ahead of the Curve

How are the world’s leading organizations developing their people and honing employees’ skills? What is the role of the Learning & Development (L&D) function today and how will that change in the future? How are companies innovating within the L&D function in order to stay ahead of the curve?

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Tags:
Blended Learning, Culture, Employee Training, Human Capital

Futurist Report: Innovating in Good Times and Bad

Lessons from 12 Global Innovators

In the current economic climate, the discipline of innovation is taking a different form. Leading organizations recognize the importance of investing in their futures to put themselves in a stronger competitive position in a post-economic crisis world. But what exactly are companies doing to stay ahead of the curve and how are they building their innovation programs to accomplish this? This paper is available free of charge.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Tags:
Climate, Defining Innovation, Defining Problems

Futurist Report: Cracking the Code of Effective Innovation

Does the "size" and "style" of your organization impact innovation?

What separates successful innovators from the rest of the pack? We surveyed 248 executives from around the world, asking them to rate their organizations along the four capabilities essential to innovation: Ideas, Strategy, Process, and Climate. Learn how organizational size and style are driving innovation effectiveness today, and discover what you can do to make innovation more effective. This paper is available free of charge.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Tags:
Climate, Innovation Approach, Innovation in Organizations, Leadership

Futurist Report: Innovation is Like Sales

How do the principles of sales management relate to innovation?

Borrowing principles from sales management and the culture of sales can provide an initial roadmap for organizations getting serious about improving their investment returns from innovation.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Tags:
Metrics, Pipeline, Reward and Recognition, Strategy

Futurist Report: Top 10 Innovators (Arts and Culture)

What makes a great innovator? And, what can we learn from the innovators in the arts and culture arena that applies to all fields?

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers, Individual Contributors
Tags:
Art, Basics, Creativity, Music

Client Quotes

  • “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
  • “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
  • “We need to look beyond our organization's walls to innovate.”
    Mehmoon Khan, Global Leader, Innovation Process Development, Unilever Unilever
  • “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
  • “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'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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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
  • “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