Is something getting in the way of your innovation efforts? Learn how to be less 'blinkered'...
Equip your teams to think creatively – on demand.
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Rachel is a certified facilitator of Systematic Inventive Thinking (S.I.T.)
Unearth more creative and doable solutions – using what you have.
Brand DNA
Let’s come up with coherent and compelling answers to the big questions about your business: Why do you do what you do? Where are you going? What’s in in for the customer? (which customers?), So what for your employees, what do you stand for? Who are you as a brand?
Manage your Value Cycle
The most meaningful and pragmatic way of tackling your marketing strategy is to work through how you manage value from 'understanding' through to 'measuring'. A neat and helpful framework I adapted from my MBA and have used effectively with a range of clients in strategic work.
Creative Strategy & breakthrough thinking
We know we need to be strategic but all too often, our strategic thinking is bound by tools & frameworks that are cognitively distant from the real world and will not lead to the creative solutions we require. Rachel offers robust ways to challenge assumptions and biases in a systematic way, break existing connections and making new ones, harness constraints and even flip problems and threats into resources! It's very exhilarating and growth mindset!
Training
One of the many upsides of SIT is that it is so learnable. Give your teams the skills to harness the SIT method on demand and to understand when to use it with other toolsets. Ask for a training proposal for your company or in your area. See 'Solutions' tab.
Productivity & Processes
When you want to be more productive, you often eliminate something. I tackle productivity & process improvements differently. I will take you down unexplored paths getting to ideas faster.
New Product Development (NPD)
Have me help you to develop new products, challenge or improve existing ones and build an innovation pipeline.
Creative Problem Solving
S.I.T offers a problem solving approach that not only embraces the problem and challenges assumptions but helps push the inventiveness of your ideas further.
Innovation Strategy
I can help you develop an innovation strategy, framework and community that fits your strategy, aspirations and culture.
SIT-type 'Hackathons'
We bring together some of the best components of a 'hackathon' but make them more efficient by using the rigour of thinking tools and the discipline of using what we have. The result is more novel yet viable ideas.
Solutions
Keynote Presentations
Rachel is a vibrant and engaging speaker. Her presentations shift thinking about innovation. Notable events included Ci2017 & 2019 Innov8rs Singapore, NLDS 2018, CPA Congress, Innov8rs Sydney, EIS 2018 and UTS BCII program, Consult Australia 2019, NLDS 2019 and Elevate (Paris), NZ Tunnelling Conference, IBM L&K Event Dec 2022.
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Workshop Facilitation
Workshops are a good way to discover the relevance, disruptiveness and efficiency of SIT thinking. Workshops may be discovery days, myth buster session, creative team building sessions or days aimed at triggering fresh thinking in the business. Most SIT workshops are hybrid sessions in that they blend skills and results. If you wish to lean more towards upskilling, look into a training course. If you would like to go for results, consider a more in-depth SIT project. Rachel also runs marketing workshops around the brand and value proposition.
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Masterclasses
Masterclasses can serve as discovery or reinforcement sessions for Systematic Inventive Thinking. They can be 1-3 hours and can cover any SIT application: problem solving, productivity, process enhancement. They include a good blend of theory and application.
Face-to-Face Innovation Training
We can design programs around your availability and preferences but courses that have been tried and tested are: - 2-day basic innovation training courses where you learn 3-4 SIT thinking tools and discover our powerful problem solving method through to advanced courses for intrapreneurs and coaches. - 2 x 2-day courses where you learn more facilitation skills and practice mini-sessions - Intensive train-the-trainer courses - mentoring of innovation leads. Get in touch for pricing, logistics and testimonials.
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Facilitation skills
Once you have seen the impact of SIT, you are likely to want to build up a community of practice and become self-sufficient in your organisation. We can train up facilitators to get them running mini-sessions and, with practice and mentoring, co-facilitating SIT projects. The 2 x 2-day formula (with 10-day break) is excellent for training internal facilitators and giving them a day of mini-session practice. Don't be fooled, there is an art to getting people past their cognitive bias... This is great for team building too!
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Online Training Courses
I offer a range of online courses ranging from Innovation 'minis' on process, product or service innovation through to a Foundations Course for teams of 6 or more (as a team with live sessions or entirely self-paced) that shows you how to apply the principles and tools of Systematic Inventive Thinking and facilitate their use in small groups.
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Innovation Strategy
Harness SIT's 24 years of experience - and Rachel's time as an intrapreneur - to help you co-create the innovation structures, skills and results that you need to foster innovation long-term in your organisation. Rachel is passionate about helping you develop a framework that suits your strategy and culture. We also work with you to make sense of your existing methods.
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Project Deep Dives
Get me to run an SIT project with you and your experts to get to better ideas more efficiently. This may range from a half-day workshop to 2.5 days with convergence and action planning. Projects may include: Strategic reviews, Pipeline ideation, Marketing strategy for a 'Me Too' or a product launch, Product Innovation, Process improvement, Rethinking a service, Productivity issues and a huge range of problems that require more creative thinking.
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Hackathons or Thinkaspaces
Imagine if you could take the best of a hackathon (engaging facilitation, intensity, diverse groups, focus, divergence, convergence, testing and prototyping) but add thinking tools that radically shift your thinking – without resorting to brainstorming! I can facilitate this for you.
Thought Leadership in Innovation
Tomorrow's Thinking. Today's People: A thoughtbook to reimagine the future of engineering - ghd
“Tomorrow’s thinking. Today’s people.” is a collection of perspectives, ideas and provocations from 40+ industry, government and academia representatives that seeks to address how might we:
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Where People, Marketing and Innovation Collide
Creating value through alignment across these three mindsets
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The Innovation Mix
Essential ingredients for effectively fostering innovation in your organisation
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The Innovation Wheel
The Innovation Wheel acts as an innovation heatmap for your organisation.
The 5-point scale works in a heatmap where the WARM colours are problematic and the COOLER colours suggest that things are looking good. The scale starts with red where innovation is little more than corporate speak and ends with blue where things are “chilled” and where innovation is integrated across the board.
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UNBLINKEREDThe Quirky Biases that get in the way of creative thinking ... and how to bust them
No matter where you are on the creative scale, improving your skills will have a positive effect. What if one of the major impediments to your ability to think creatively and innovate were your unconscious biases? Unblinkered is a playful exploration of 19 blinkers that Rachel has seen at play in her experience as an intrapreneur, driving an innovation community in a corporate and as an innovation trainer and coach . Some of them are well known, others she is calling out and encourages you to recognise them and know when and how to use them and when to lose them.
The short of it:
I help organisations unearth ideas that are hiding in plain view. This means elegant, feasible, resourceful solutions using what you have. I run Systematic Inventive Thinking (S.I.T.) in ANZ. Get in touch: rachel@rachelaudige.com
The long of it:
We are born creative but not everyone stays that way. I can help you become efficient and resourceful creative thinkers again.
There are lots of things holding us back but what I encounter in every organisation is cognitive fixedness. That is that state of 'stuckness' when we cannot see alternative ways of doing things. I believe that innovation is often the result of this fixedness being broken. Break this and you will be able to shorten a process, fill your product pipeline, stress test a project design, de-risk a schedule, rethink your business model, make your messaging stickier or come up with more resourceful and radical solutions to your problems. I promise to shift what you thought about creativity.
If you're after the SKILLS go straight to my training platform, click here. You can get a taste of Systematic Inventive Thinking in the Starter Course or dive straight into a Self-Paced SIT Foundations Course, for 8 modules packed with years of experience with the method.
If you want RESULTS, request a workshop on a pain point in your business. We can do a Discovery session where you dip your toe in or you can do a Deep Dive Project and go for higher impact.
If you're after more creative STRATEGY or if you want help with your INNOVATION strategy, contact me. For the latter, check out my Innovation Wheel
How can I help you?
Let's go! >Systematic Inventive Thinking® is an Israeli company and an academically-based method for thinking differently.
Organisations in Australia and New Zealand find S.I.T. impactful because it is more than just a process to follow; it shifts our thinking. S.I.T. is
- Proven, learnable and can be used on demand;
- Effective in innovating on product pipeline, engineering design, processes, business models, strategy...
- Able to deliver business impact and viable outcomes using the resources you already have;
- Powerful alone and in combination with Lean Six Sigma, Design Thinking, Jobs to be done and Agile - as well as strategy tools such as the Business Model Canvas or even the good ol' SWOT. Who knew that could be creative?!
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