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Please Note: this website is scheduled for a major revision & upgrade in late summer, 2011 based on our new work: Trusted to Innovate

Co-Creative Innovation

OUR MISSION

  • Generate Continuous Flows of Profitable Innovation from
    Alliance Partners, Strategic Suppliers & Outsourcers.

OUR VALUE PROPOSITION

  • Double your Flow of Innovation from Outside Sources
  • Create a Vital Source of New Revenues
  • Impact the Bottom Line Dramatically
Creativity Through Cooperation

 We specialize in providing Best Processes & Best Practices to
ACCELERATE INNOVATION when two or more organizations are linked together in an
alliance, value network, outsourcing arrangement, or supply chain.
For larger organizations, the opportunity is typically worth billions.
For smaller companies, it is the critical difference between merely surviving, or thriving.

SPECIAL FEATURES

Engines of Innovation Best Practices Study Over 100 New Practices, Pilot Results Successful .... Read More

The Innovator’s Challenge
Having Difficulties Starting Your Innovation Engine? Read More

Our Success: Because we focus on Best Practices, we can:

  • Roll Out Innovation Rapidly & Replicate Success
  • Increase the Success Rate by a factor of 2-3X
  • Create Uniform Language, Architecture, & Processes across Global Business Units .... Read More

Innovation is Important, but Not Urgent: Sadly, most companies are quickly falling behind the competition .... Read More

SPECIAL EVENTS

Engines of Innovation Workshops open to the public are being scheduled around the country:

Silicon Valley Innovation Workshop -- This program produced outstanding results.  See the Feedback!-- May 24th.


Conference Board -- 1/2 day workshop for Supply Chains:” Chicago, June 14th


Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals -- 1 Day Workshop Chicago, June 20th at Marrott O’Hare (note changed date)


Silicon Valley Innovation Institute -- Palo Alto, October 20 -- more information later

If your Organization would like to sponsor a workshop, just Contact Us and we will be happy help organize one with you.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

  KEY PRINCIPLES

    • Innovation is the MOST SUSTAINABLE SOURCE of COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
    • ALLIANCE PARTNERS & STRATEGIC SUPPLIERS are:
        • Often the LEAST COSTLY, LEAST RISKY & FASTEST SOURCE of Innovation
        • An UNTAPPED WELLSPRING of Innovation
    • Great Innovation comes from the SYNERGY of ALIGNED DIFFERENTIALS in THINKING
    • COLLABORATION & CO-CREATION are Essential
       

 In the interest of expanding the field of knowledge, we’ve placed a large amount of information to help build our Client’s Innovation Engines, enabling you to design & build the strategies, structures, and systems that catalyze the co-creative spirit across organizational boundaries.

If you Need to Make a Presentation to Management about the Importance of Innovation, 
You may download this PowerPoint Presentation in PDF Format:
Key Questions & Issues for Executives regarding Alliances as Engines of Innovation

Engines of Innovation is a service of The Warren Company, which has been serving the strategic alliance, business development, and supply management professions since 1982. Our work in undertanding the “Architecture of Cooperation” has resulted in enormous shifts in success rates of Strategic Alliances and Supplier Innovation in Supply Chain Management. Copyright 1990-2006 The Warren Company

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