Innovation Flow
Positive Energy
WHAT ENERGY IS NEEDED FOR INNOVATION?
When was the last time your team truly brainstormed—spent hours generating bold ideas, with colleagues from engineering, IT, finance, and HR all at the table, alongside experts and users?
And testing with users? It’s not a quick survey. It’s putting on a coat, simulating real scenarios, and watching reactions firsthand.
Innovation demands this kind of positive and courageous energy: where people feel safe, engaged, and empowered to dive deep. Anything less, and we’re only scratching the surface..
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Innovation
WHAT METHODS DO YOU USE TO CHANGE THINGS?
Design Thinking, Human-Centered Design, Systemic Thinking, Agile, and Lean Start-Up - they’re powerful, proven methods. But they only deliver real impact when fueled by the right positive energy, the kind that makes risk-taking and creativity feel natural.
These methods aren’t “quick fixes.” Like learning an instrument, they require consistent practice to master. Just as you wouldn’t expect a pianist to play beautifully after a few lessons, don’t expect your team to develop breakthrough services after a short training. True transformation takes time, dedicated support, and the right balance of challenge and encouragement. Invest in the journey - and watch as your team begins to create genuinely innovative, meaningful change
How to combine the two?
Take the Leap Toward Transformative Impact
To generate solutions that impact those they’re designed to serve, and that all stakeholders - clients, users, and the environment - truly benefited from your work, you and your team will start to adopt a bold approach, where users are truly involved, and fresh ideas quickly tested and refined with real end-users.
We will not just focus on methods, knowledge and technology; but challenge the energy, courage, and regenerative focus that individuals and team members bring to the table. Daring to ask bigger questions, to challenge assumptions, and to design solutions that meet the most profound human and environmental needs.
The Innovation Flow Programmes and Coaching offer an opportunity to grow - not just in the way your teams approach problems, uncover opportunities, and generate purposeful solutions, but also in how they collaborate and whom they involve in the process. By exploring new ways of working together and tapping into diverse perspectives, you’ll create a shift in positive energy, fueling deeper innovation, stronger collaboration, and lasting impact.
Innovation Programmes
Design Thinking
TRAINING + COACHING
For many, navigating the journey of exploring problems, generating ideas, experimenting with concepts and iterating towards a solution can feel ambiguous and uncomfortable. Design Thinking or Human-Centered Design offers a structured process supported by tools that instill confidence in team members, enabling them to trust the innovation journey.
Embarking on this journey for the first time can still feel daunting, necessitating consistent support and challenge from a facilitator. With dedication and guidance, purposeful and unique solutions gradually emerge.
Energy for Growth provides 2 to 4-day trainings, tailored to suit the client's preferences, supplemented with coaching, to reinforce the new ways of working and practice. Alternatively, we offer customized solutions to address specific needs.
CX Standards
FACILITATION / INTERIM
What does it feel like to be a customer of your organization? How does this experience differ from that of your competition? As part of any transformation roadmap, it's crucial to establish both Customer Experience Standards and the unique qualities that define your brand's and/or organization's experiences.
Energy for Growth (E4G) recommends assembling a small team, led by the transformation team and involving input from communication, marketing, and CX departments. Facilitated by E4G. This collaborative effort may span several months to research, define, test and refine the CX Standards. However, these standards serve as a benchmark against which every customer and employee interaction can be evaluated and enhanced, fostering a shared language across divisions.
It's essential to recognize that the standards are a very powerful and purposeful asset to own, as they have been proven to significantly influence both customer and employee satisfaction scores.
Culture Shift
FACILITATION / INTERIM
To foster greater innovation, companies often need to reassess and adjust their values. True innovators typically engage in practices such as testing prototypes with customers, gathering feedback, and iterating based on that feedback. In many corporate cultures, these activities are mistakenly seen as failures and are often met with punishment. This fear of experimentation stifles innovation among employees, underscoring the need for new values to support a more innovative environment.
Energy for Growth (E4G) recommends forming a small team, led by the Senior Management and/or Transformation and HR team, with input from all departments. Facilitated by E4G. This collaborative effort may span several months to research, define, test, and refine internal values. Emphasis will be placed on encouraging risk-taking, promoting a culture of learning, celebrating feedback, fostering collaboration & sharing across divisions and with customers, and allocating time for experimentation.
Stories of Impact
Cultivating a Customer Centricity & Innovation Mindset using Design Thinking Methods.
Bank, Iceland
Building a culture of Empathy for and Experimentation with the Stakeholders
Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Iceland
Identifying the Identity of the Organization - The Customer Experience Standards - and how we want our Customers to feel when using our Services
Bank, Iceland