Making the Impossible Possible

Developing Breakthrough Solutions

Innovation Keynote by Steve Shapiro

Innovation isn’t just for innovators! It’s for everyone. This interactive keynote – which can be done with any size audience and is relevant to everyone – shares a number of practical techniques that anyone in your organization can use. For example, it can help:

Sales reps develop new and better ways of closing the deal
Marketers create more compelling and persuasive campaigns
IT develop better technology more rapidly with lower risk
HR professionals better engage employees and improve performance management
Manufacturing reduce costs and improve quality
Everyone be more productive and better at solving your business challenges

Some Common Activities Include:

Make the impossible possible

This fun technique has its roots in magic and is fundamentally different than how most people solve problems.

Make connections

Most people solve problems through their “expertise” lens. But this limits potential solutions. Instead find someone else who has solved a similar problem.

Predict what the competition will do

A good source of creative inspiration is to look at what you fear your current – and future – competitors will do…and then beat them to the punch.

Speaker’s Corner

Inspired by Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park, London, this technique is a free-market approach to developing solutions. It is fast, fun, and wildly efficient.