" Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. " – Steve Jobs
" An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage. " — Jack Welsh
“ You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. ” — Walt Disney
" Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. " — Bill Gates
" Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. " — Marie Curie
" We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. " — Albert Einstein
" Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. " — George Washington Carver
" Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. " — Winston Churchill
Innovation Culture Design
Using simple and scientific approaches based on advanced technologies and thinking models, Echo Strategies helps clients accelerate their innovation processes.
Innovation creates value through interactions and conversations, so Echo delves into the culture of R&D, product development and other innovation teams to help them create environments that engender employee engagement and enhance team energy levels.
“I came to see in my time at IBM that culture isn’t just one aspect of the game, it is the game.”
– Louis V. Gerstner, Former C.E.O. IBM Corporation
Since innovation thrives in a collaborative environment, and true collaboration requires a high level of trust, Echo shows innovation professionals how to work together more effectively – internally and externally – to create a culture that catalyzes innovation and helps build a sustainable innovation pipeline.
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Leadership Development
Echo Strategies has pioneered a new approach to leadership development targeted to the unique needs of executives and managers in R&D, new product development and other innovation-based disciplines.
Organizations often promote the philosophy that their employees are their most important asset; however, many supervisors are unprepared for proactively managing, motivating and retaining their most-valued workers – and this shortfall can be especially acute in technical, knowledge-intensive or creative groups, such as R&D, product development and marketing.
“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive weapon.”
– Jack Welsh Former C.E.O. General Electric Corporation
Echo links leading-edge behavior science, culture assessment and continuous coaching technology to provide proven leadership development programs and practices customized for innovation professionals.
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Business Intelligence & Data Science
Data has been called “the new business currency,” and Echo Strategies helps clients maximize their data-based assets by delivering focused insight at every level of decision-making with a host of next-generation business intelligence and data science processes.
Organizational ability to anticipate and accelerate innovation processes is for a large part predicated on sensing systems that provide timely, actionable stakeholder intelligence. Albeit it time-consuming and tedious, the business intelligence process is the engine that drives ideas for new product and business opportunities, while data science enables an organization to make the most of the deluge of information it encounters each day.
“We can’t solve problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
– Albert Einstein
Echo can serve as a client’s “Chief Thinking Officer” to architect and implement custom sensing systems that generate and analyze the data critical to business success.
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