Ideas that Work
Align guides teams through a creative development process to uncover breakthrough ideas
that lead to bottom-line results.
Great Ideas Aren’t Lucky -
They’re Designed
You don’t have to keep doing things the same way, hoping for something to change. You don’t need to wait for a eureka moment.
Successful teams take idea work seriously and actively invest time and attention in cultivating ideas and converting them into tangible solutions customers want.
Unleash Your Creative Potential
Fresh ideas that create value are within reach when you have the right conditions. Every organization has creative potential waiting to be activated. We facilitate team experiences where good ideas flourish.
The Idea Process
An Experience that Delivers Results
Whether you need a quick burst of inspiration or a program spanning a few months, Align’s expertly facilitated ideation programs are productive and results-oriented. Projects deliver a portfolio of short-term and long-term strategic opportunities, with a roadmap to validate, develop, and launch the best ideas. You’ll come away with tangible opportunities and a clear sense of how to move forward confidently. Each project is customized with a timeline and scope to harness the creative process in ways that best meet your needs.
Align’s formula for great ideas:
Create Focus and Define Success - Start with the end in mind and clarify your goals
Research People and Needs - Define the right audience and customer problems worth solving
Facilitate a Creative Experience - Guide an experience that inspires curiosity, collaboration, and bold ideas.
Prioritize & Refine Opportunities - Apply your success criteria to elevate and refine the best options
Outcome: a team experience that generates a prioritized set of tangible solutions, grounded in your customer’s needs and priorities
We bring the energy, expertise, and structure your team needs to unearth great possibilities. Applying techniques from Align’s 4 ‘I’s of Strategic Innovation process, we facilitate ideation workshops that lead to new and improved products, services, and strategies, rooted in customer needs.
Facilitating an innovation project can look like a one-day Spark Session, an Innovation Team with a focused charter, stand-alone workshops, or a project designed around your specific capacity, goals, and requirements.
Client Experiences
“We needed this facilitated push to move to an actual concept we could implement!”
“Today was awesome! I loved the time spent ‘not doing’ in order to think.”
“I was a little skeptical, but now I see the process. It produced exciting concepts we’re moving forward.”
Success Story
Align led the Reimagining the Child Care Business Model project, where our client’s innovation team presented 7 pilot projects to an audience of state policy officials, strategic partners, and philanthropic leaders. The project resulted in opportunities for new funding, new programs, and new partners. “This has been HUGE for us! We have a clear strategy for moving forward.” Andrea Heberlein, PA Early Learning Investment Commission, Executive Director
How to Kickstart Innovation
Don’t wait. Don’t wing it. Imagine a high-energy retreat where insights lead to inspiring ideas and collaboration leads to consensus and clarity. Align’s easy Innovation Checklist will show you how to set your innovation journey on the right path.
The First Step
Innovation Checklist & Workshop Primer
Align’s Innovation Checklist provides questions and tips that help you prepare for an efficient and effective project. By understanding how to design a creative problem-solving program, you’ll avoid pitfalls that delay progress and cause team frustration. When you know who to involve, how to create focus, and what makes ideation productive, you can build momentum that leads to success!
Download the Innovation Checklist now and schedule time to talk about the best options for your organization.
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