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Innovation Farming

A Key Strategic Advantage

To create true innovation, the type that shifts an industry and creates a new paradigm, there needs to be an intersection of information. The key players in the industry who have resources,
engineering and distribution need to intersect with the people who work every day in the industry.

Why? Simply put, the people who get up every day and work with materials, software, and systems understand the innovation and improvements needed better than anyone in the world.

With a little help, this knowledge of problems can be grown into solutions that are easy for executives like you to implement.

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Their necessity becomes the mother, or the beginning of your new innovation!

From the first wheel to the creation of the bronze tools used by humanity…innovation has always been driven by a necessity in mankind. When you look back over history, you realize that the “big ideas” often came from the strangest origins...regular people!

First, we will look at a few examples of this in innovation… then we will demonstrate how we can use science to ensure the innovations of tomorrow go to market through your company.

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The seeds for billions in revenue could lie dormant in your staff now!

Step One - Understand
In the Innovation Farming Process, the first step is for our highly-trained business analysts to meet with your management team. They will work to understand at a high level where the company is now and where you need to be in the future. Once this is clear, we will design an Innovation Seed Package that will be sent to key groups in your organization and in our network.

Step Two - Plant the Seeds of Innovation
The Innovation Seed Package contains a simple guide to critical thinking and problem-solving. After the recipient completes the training, they are asked to consider issues in the industry related to your organization’s offer, product, or service. What could make you superior? What could give you a unique advantage? And what, in their opinion, would make your product or service one they
would buy?

Step Three - Letting the Seeds Grow
This process is not done in a single session; the participants consider the industry issues related to your organization over a one-month period leading up to the harvesting of insights. This is a very important part of the process. Why? Ideas, truly great ideas, do not happen on command.

Who is more likely to have an innovative idea for disrupting gurney design - an EMT in the office or an EMT strapping someone into a gurney? Or consider improvements in clotting agents and bandages - who is more likely to have an innovative idea? An EMT in the office or an EMT stopping an arterial bleed?

When people are taught how to solve problems, given specific direction, and allowed time to think deeply on the issue over time… they find the solutions to problems they face every day!

Step Four - Harvesting Seeds
We use an online form system that is part of the seed package to collect insights from the list of participants. The page includes your logo, organization contact information, and a brief description of your vision to improve the industry with the Innovation Farming Process.

Then there is an area to fill in their insights on the industry, product, or service. These are organized by a trained technician into categories related to their goals and delivered to your sponsor.

Step Five - Implementing
The science of understanding other people’s opinions and insights is complex, to say the least. As an option, your organization can be provided with additional help to refine, translate, and operationalize the insights provided by the group. This help is provided through the Summit Sciences Force Multiplier System.

If there is a solution, an innovation, or an improvement to be had in your industry… Innovation Farming will ensure it goes to market through your organization!