Idea Harvesting Workshops

Workshop Idea Harvesting — An idea harvesting workshop generates and captures business relevant strategic ideas. Intellectual property is a company's most valuable asset, whether it is “hard IP” like patents or simply strategic actionable ideas. Lawyers understand that. Unfortunately, most employees do not. Innovation Monkey workshops focus on employees, the source of inventors and patents.

Workshops Train Employees and Management — Most employees have never been taught the process of idea submission or basic patent applications. Many employees don’t know that their ideas are wanted, and those that do, often “self censor” their ideas instead of writing disclosures for potentially patentable inventions. Those that share their ideas cannot tell how they are evaluated. Management does not always know how to ask for and evaluate invention disclosures and is often frustrated by a lack of strategic actionable IP from employees.  Workshops provide deliberate practice to generate valuable ideas during the workshop and going forward.

Strategy Workshops

IP Strategy Workshops — intellectual property is a lot like sailing. You must take into account the direction of the wind and adjust course and approach as the wind changes. Taking a deliberate strategic approach allows you to move where you want to go, rather than moving randomly. Articulating an IP strategy and adjusting it as needed results in a more efficient and effective process that doesn’t leave IP behind.

Workshops Train Managers — Most managers have never articulated to their teams what strategic ideas they are looking for, let alone how employees can share those strategic ideas. Most managers have not considered they can more objectively evaluate ideas they do get from their employees. IP strategy workshops help managers to articulate and implement business rules around idea capturing.