BALANCE ANALYTICAL THINKING & CREATIVE THINKING FOR BETTER SUCCESS IN TODAY’S MARKETS. LEARN POWERFUL & UNIQUE BUSINESS IDEATION & INNOVATION TECHNIQUES WITH AWARD WINNING MULTIDISCIPLINARY INNOVATION & CREATIVITY EXPERT JAVIER IDEAMI. CONTACT IDEAMI@IDEAMI.COM TO BOOK SPRINGKITE FOR YOUR COMPANY OR GROUP.
IBM’s global study on 1500 CEO’s in 66 countries and 30 industries, in its 2010 and 2012 editions, concludes that Creativity is the most crucial factor for future success. The 2012 edition also emphasizes that the four traits that stand out as critical for employees’ future success are: Collaborative, Communicative, Creative and Flexible.
(An ideami White Paper summarizing the connection between the IBM study, largest of its kind ever undertaken, and this workshop, is available on request)
Springkite (SK) is a Business Innovation & creativity workshop that helps businesses balance traditional analytical skills with the innovation & creative ones that are most needed today. SK focuses on those traits and skills that the Global IBM study, largest of its kind, considers most important for today’s businesses. Based on years of research and the unique multidisciplinary experience of Ideami, SK is especially designed to stimulate and reinforce creative thinking, thus enhancing our overall productivity, energy and balance. An ideal boost for all types of entrepreneurs, employees, managers and businesses.
SK is a unique workshop among its kind because
* The conclussions of IBM’s global study are clear and match with ideami’s work and research. In today’s society and markets, analysis is an incomplete and limited way to deal with the complexity of business and life. Springkite is designed to balance analytical and creative thinking in order to take our productivity and innovation potential to the next level. You will be working on Communication, creative thinking, flexibility and improvisation, observation and collaboration, lateral thinking, expressiveness, team work and much more.
* Springkite (SK) goes way beyond language to help you exercise creative thinking with all your potential, working with multiple creative channels, involving words, sounds, visuals, movement, gesture, emotions, context and more, empowering the creative skills of employees and managers and giving you new strategies to create and incubate novel and useful ideas connected to your current work. The Full Springkite is structured in 7 modules: Insight, Visual, Gesture, Pattern, Emotion, Context and Meditation. Together they provide a formidable training in creative thinking skills to complement your existing analytical ones.
* It is very practical, in SK you will work on real business challenges related to your needs in order to produce useful results. Or you may choose to work on brand new challenges.
* A workshop that covers so much ground needs a tutor and speaker expert in a very wide range of areas involving business, technology, creativity and innovation , human interaction and other areas. Javier Ideami is the unique award winning expert that reaches across science, entrepreneurship, technology, business and art, to take you and your company to the next level.
a) SK can be organized as either a 2 day (all modules) experience or a shorter more compact 1 day event.
b) Participants choose a challenge and work on it through different modules (with the flexibility to switch direction at any time)
- Strengthened Communication, creative thinking, lateral thinking, improvisation, observation, expressiveness, spontaneity, team work and other essential skills for your business.
- New creative thinking strategies that involve all of your potential.
- Useful insights related to your current work or new challenges you pick.
- To balance the analytical and creative/intuitive modes of thinking in order to more effectively work with the complexity of today’s business challenges
- Exercise your creative muscles by involving all of your self, from visuals to acoustics, body language and gestures, emotion and much more
Springkite makes use of a series of unique custom made creative tools designed and created by Ideami himself. These include:
SK-PRES: The revolutionary presentation system ideami uses to teach Springkite. It brings together some of the best features of Powerpoint, Prezi and other systems in a totally new way. More
SK-TOOL: A mobile Phone app that powers a few of the modules of Springkite allowing participants to do many of the exercises in a very flexible way, as they move or interact with each other. More
SK-SOUND: A revolutionary sound-storming tool that powers the sound module of Springkite. More
SK-LIGHT: A unique light-storming tool that powers the light module of Springkite. More
In addition to those cutting edge tech tools, participants will also use traditional tools such as paper and pencil. In this way Springkite again bridges and encompasses the entire range of creative tools, from the most traditional and simple to the latest and most innovative, becoming the most unique innovation and creativity event you can find today in the market.
SK is also part of Ideami’s work to expand the way brainstorming is done at companies, in order to involve all of our senses and modes of thinking so that we not only brainstorm but also light-storm, sound-storm, emotion-storm, etc
Below you can watch a video of one of the latest Springkites that took place at the company Imagine in San Francisco
“The Springkite workshop was the most brilliantly challenging 8 hours of my life. It really pushed me to extend beyond my capabilities”
Eric Hsieh
“I had the privilege to take the Springkite workshop and the experience was absolutely fantastic. A great way to exercise every neuron in your brain! During the workshop we all came up with amazing ideas while having fun and creating bonds between us. Springkite is a great way to re-discover the creativity in you. I highly recommend Springkite to everyone, no matter age or background!”
Rosa Monge
“This year we added to our innovation program the Springkite workshop. Javier ideami worked intensely with our entrepreneurs and without a doubt we will repeat this activity again in our future programs. The entrepreneurs were amazed with what they were able to achieve through the different creativity techniques they learned. They came up with incredible ideas!”
Xavier Verdaguer
“i studied advertising and i found this amazing and totally new compared to what i’ve seen. And the best part, you get really good ideas, it works!!!”
Jordi Valls
“Springkite turned out to be a mind-changing experience where its intensity and variety of activities really motivated us and gave us a creativity boost that we can apply in our projects and careers”
Jorge Rodriguez
* You are an entrepreneur, employee, manager, director or individual looking for powerful strategies to balance analytical and creative thinking, in order to improve productivity and innovation skills.
* Professionals interested in expanding and accelerating ideation processes.
Javier Ideami is an award winning multidisciplinary creative director, entrepreneur, engineer & artist who has been blending business, creativity and technology for years as well as leading innovative educational workshops, conferences and events. Ideami’s expertise brings together fields as diverse as innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, software engineering, design, photography, filmmaking, marketing, music, acting, public speaking and others. He is the founder of award winning Ideami Creative Studios as well as multiple business ventures including the recent Springkite Business Innovation program that blends multiple creative fields in order to help companies and groups deal with the complexity of today’s business environments.
Javier has spoken at prestigious institutions including Stanford University in California, the United Nations FAO headquarters, the faculty of architecture at the university of Rome, Canary Wharf financial centre in London and at other numerous symposiums and events around the world.
Today’s business challenges are too complex for analysis alone. Expand your modes of thinking and generating ideas;
Bloom like spring, kite like the wind, Accelerate your Business ideation processes and welcome a new creative spring in your mind.
More information at www.springkite.com
To host a Springkite contact ideami at ideami@ideami.com