Our Services
INNOVATION QUICK SPRINT
Innovation Quick Sprint is a focused, fast-track program designed to help your organization rapidly tackle a key challenge or opportunity. In just a few weeks, our expert facilitators guide your team through a compressed innovation cycle—from identifying a high-impact problem to generating creative solutions and actionable plans. The process is lean and agile, leveraging proven methods (and optional AI-driven tools) to deliver tangible results at speed.
BENEFITS TO YOUR ORGANIZATION
- Tangible Results, Fast: Achieve actionable ideas, prototypes or solutions in weeks—not months—so you can quickly move the needle on pressing challenges.
- High-Impact Focus: We target opportunities with clear business value. The Quick Sprint prioritizes ideas that can drive revenue growth or savings in the near term.
- Team Alignment & Upskilling: Break down silos by uniting a cross-functional team to collaborate using best-inclass innovation techniques. Your people will learn by doing, emerging with new skills and a unified vision.
- Low-Risk, High-Value: This short engagement (often ~4–6 weeks) is a costeffective way to test new ideas with minimal disruption. You get validated concepts and a roadmap forward without a large upfront investment.
OTHER SERVICES
ECOSYStem GROWTH
The Innovatrium grows clients’ innovation community and network through connections with university faculty, students, VCs, startups, corporations, and art and design communities.
Project jumpstart
From idea incubation to project acceleration, the innovation consultants can assist companies to create high quality and impactful ventures that best fit clients’ capabilities.
Innovation ASSESSMENTS + Analytics
Using the Innovation Genome, companies can receive an assessment about their innovation practices, culture, and competency to determine their strengths and weaknesses.
Mentorship
Consultants will guide and mentor innovators, executives, and sponsors to navigate the reality of change endeavor, build momentum, and push initiatives through the barriers in the organization.
Training + Development
The Innovatrium team provides training for clients in innovation methods and practices to develop skills and a creative mindset. Options include:
- Certified Professional Innovator (CPI) Program, certified by the University of Michigan
- Train the trainer and sponsor training programs
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CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL Innovator (CPI) PROGRAM
CPI is designed to develop highly practiced innovation leaders through a customized and scalable online component in combination with a rapid and intense action-learning program. The aim of the program is to embed the innovators’ mindset and instill the skill base necessary to manage breakthrough innovation-focused projects, people, and ventures, through real innovation projects and solutions.
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Train the Trainer Program
Develops the skills and mindset of an elite team of highly practiced innovation leaders to lead diverse initiatives and become innovation champions. An extension of the CPI program, this program helps graduates become sponsors and mentors who train the rest of the organization and create a critical mass of innovators.
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AIM HI Program
The AIM HI program is an abbreviation for Academy • Industry • Military • Hybrid • Innovations. The program connects top shelf research universities, entrepreneurial companies, United States Air Force, and National Guard to develop creativity and innovation skills, facilitate problem solving, break barriers, anticipate the future, out-compete existing and new adversaries, and accelerate decision cycles.
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Project DAWG
Innovatrium and Air University are joining forces to host a game design competition called DAWG (Developing Airmen With Games) and are looking for students to develop a prototype that assesses Airman fundamental competencies, such as decision making, leadership, and creating thinking.
