Workshops and Conferences

We provide introductory and in-depth workshops on innovation as well as sponsor major innovation conferences throughout the year. 

Customer Specific Workshops

We offer customized workshops at your location.  Based on our Tricept front end approach and our Vocal Insights customer need discovery process we support companies in their pursuit of ongoing innovation. 

Our workshops can be used to introduce your organization to the core concepts of innovation or to provide in-depth training to your innovation teams.  Either way we provide you with best practices in front end discovery, team immersion, creative problem solving, voice of the customer, and more.   

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But there are many more learning opportunities - check out the conferences and workshops below!

 

Upcoming Sponsored Conferences and Workshops

PDMA 32nd Annual International Conference

Join us September 15-16 at Disney's Contemporary Resort for this year's innovator's connector experience!

We will be at this year's PDMA annual meeting and look forward to the great speakers and networking this event is known for.  Member of our team have been part of the PDMA since the 1980s.  We are excited with how the discipline of innovation has evolved and proud to have been part of the evolution.   Come join us at our booth and discover how Innovare's strategic approach to customer-centered innovation has delivered hundreds of new products, services, and new technologies.   

Email us and get a 20% discount off the registration!

 

 

 

Previously Sponsored Conferences & Workshops

PDMA & IIR 6th Annual Front End of Innovation

Thank you for joining us in Boston for this year's premier front end event!

We continued our sponsorship of the Front End of Innovation conference at the Seaport Hotel, in Boston's dramatic new waterfront district on May 19-21, 2008.  We enjoyed meeting all those who came by our booth to discover how Innovare's strategic approach to customer-centered innovation has increased our client's front end success rates by more than 50%. 

Email us and get a 25% discount off the registration!

 

 

 

 

 

PDMA Innovation Connection 2007

Thank you for joining us at the 2007 PDMA International Conference held at Disney's Contemporary Resort in Orlando Florida.   It was a terrific event.  We are sponsoring the conference again in 2008 so stop by our booth!

 

PDMA & IIR 10th Annual Voice of the Customer 2007

We sponsored the 10th annual Voice-of-the-Customer conference,  December 3 - 5, 2007 in Scottsdale, AZ.  During the conference we provided our half day workshop to over 40 delegates. 

The workshop  "Bridging the Gap from Voices to Concepts" was an interactive session designed to help teams create new concepts from the voice of the customer.  Since the workshop was so well received, we are now offering it for individual companies looking to get their team's started on transforming the voice of the customer into new product and service concepts. 

 

PDMA & IIR 5th Annual Front End of Innovation

Thanks for joining us in Boston for this year's premier front end event!

We sponsored this year's Front End of Innovation conference at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, May 8 - 11, 2007.  Many delegate came by our booth to discover how Innovare's strategic approach to customer-centered innovation has increased our client's front end success rates by more than 50%. 

 

PDMA 2006 Product & Service Innovation

We sponsored the PDMA 2006 Product & Service Innovation - Compete to Win international conference.  During the conference one of our key clients, Xerox received the Outstanding Corporate Innovator Award for their breakthrough  digital production press.  You can find part of their story in our Foundations Newsletter

We plan on being at future PDMA conferences including the Front End of Innovation in Boston in May 2007 and the Voice-of-the-Customer conference in December 2007.  We will see you there!

 

PDMA & IIR 8th Annual Voice of the Customer - Workshop

Understanding Your Customer's Needs - Getting Beneath the Surface

This describes our Vocal Insights Workshop as presented at the 6th Annual PDMA/IIR Voice of the Customer Conference, December 8-10, 2003.  The workshop was exceptionally well received and provided all the tools and techniques to get each participant started conducting their own Voice-of -the-Customer project. 

We can reproduce this workshop at you company or organization to help you get started with the tools and techniques critical for understanding customer needs and created a shared understanding of those needs throughout your organization.  That shared understanding provide critical focus and alignment for innovation implementation.

 

 

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