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Method: Project Managment
We believe that even the most interesting, inspiring, and promising program in creativity or innovation - even one that generates all sorts of great new ideas - is not a real success if you don't end up implementing its results. Which is why SIT has a method for Project Management built into every program we run. And a whole separate section for it here on our website.
Here's a scenario that may be familiar if you've participated in other creativity and innovation workshops: You have an inspiring ideation session. The team comes up with lots of promising ideas. The facilitators send you an impressively hefty report. The report forever gathers dust in a corner.

At SIT, we don't consider a project successful if you don't implement its results, and we consider it an essential part of our work to ensure that you do. To this end, we take measures before, during, and after the ideation sessions, including:
  1. Discussing the project's goals in detail, and defining them precisely before we start;
  2. Reviewing these goals throughout the project and assessing progress with respect to those goals;
  3. Filtering ideas during rather than after the ideation process - only ideas that pass through SIT's "preliminary filters" go onto the flipcharts;
  4. Providing not only an idea list at the project's completion, but also a detailed plan for implementing the ideas;
  5. Integrating your team's insight with Voice of Customer, through the SIT (Multi Focus Group) technique.
  6. Supporting you throughout the process of implementation, after the ideation phase;
Bottom Line
Making sure that the ideas actually get implemented.
FAQ
Lots of innovation consultants run ideation and innovation projects. Does SIT really run these projects so differently?
 

We do. For one thing, we judge a project's success by what happens when it's over. In other words, we're not interested in just running an enjoyable, satisfying project, which ends with everyone feeling great and giving great feedback, and with a long list of apparently innovative ideas that never end up being implemented. While we of course like people to enjoy the process, our major concern in project management is to design a process that from the start is aimed at generating ideas that can be implemented in the real world.

SIT's process is designed so that potentially problematic issues, the sort that can keep a novel idea from being implemented, are discovered and dealt with earlier on - in the ideation phase. The reason great ideas often languish at the ideas stage is that there are scant resources or energy to deal with the challenges of implementing them. SIT's ideation process has built into it a mechanism for uncovering, and then dismantling, many of the obstacles to an idea's implementation.

Which is why, even when people do have a good time in our workshops, we don't walk away after the ideation phase with lots of positive feedback and pat ourselves on the back; we hang around to make sure the project is managed all the way through to its implementation.
What do I receive at the end of an SIT project?
 

SIT's approach is validated by success in the market place. It's natural, therefore, that we wish to see ideas implemented just as much as you do.

This is why we do not consider a project finished just because you have a list of ideas (even the sort of highly - filtered ideas that you will get at the end of the ideation phase in our project).

The results of any particular project depend very much on its goals and objectives, but in all cases you can expect at least some of the following:
The proverbial list of ideas, prioritized;
A preliminary clustering and organization of the ideas into concepts;
First action items for implementation;
Some new thinking tools that you can apply in the future.

In addition, you will receive full documentation of the process, as well as ongoing support as you proceed with implementation.
Click here to read about the Project Management layer of the SIT Onion.
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