Nicholas J. Webb, Speaker/Trainer

This seminar made me realize just how slow and outdated our current systems are. I guess what I like the best was Nick's ability to take a complicated issue like new product development and to bring it down to its true success drivers Curtis Freeman, Eagle Vision   Turns out there is a better way to build a mousetrap, great information. Thanks Nick! Mike Good, MBA, Pharm.D. Privia Research   Seems like we have never been able to consistently access, evaluate and transfer technologies, in this amazing workshop I finally discovered the reasons why. Peggy Gardner, PhD VCRI Research

When it comes to innovation we wrote the book. Literally.

Lassen Innovation provides state of the art training solutions covering every topic within the areas of innovation management, new product development, technology transfer, and creativity. Although we provide training around our proprietary systems, all of our workshops and keynotes are highly customized to meet your organization's specific needs. You need experts with real world expertise. Put our experience to work for you through our comprehensive innovation management training and executive coaching.

Training, Coaching and Events

Lassen Innovation provides custom and public training programs that feature the latest thinking in the area of Innovation Management, NPD and Technology transfer. Our trainers and speakers are real world practitioners of innovation not theorist. Our programs include:

RealOpen™

The term "open innovation" has become extremely prolific and for good reason, most organizations will lose market share, profitability and in some cases viability as a result of lack of openness to external innovation. The problem with many companies that have adopted innovation is that they have not created the life support systems and the true external connectivity to innovations. Our real open systems allows your firm to significantly increase its access to external innovation without increasing the cost and resources typically associated with open innovation.

RealFast™

In today's market place of shortened product life cycles and increased competition, speed rules the day. Our RealFast system will help your organization think and act like an entrepreneur again while still maintaining the discipline of innovation management systems

Prescribed Innovation™

In the race of innovation management there are dozens of systems designed to increase profit and throughput while reducing risk. Unfortunately, however, these one size fits all approaches do not take into account the complexities and differences of the organization. Prescribed innovation improves on systems that are working and fixes or replaces systems that aren't.  It improves customer connectivity and builds an organization that leads its industry with the best and most profitable technologies.

Speaking and Seminars.

Invigorate your organization when you engage the speaking services of Nicholas Webb.

Our CEO, Nicholas Webb, is an accomplished and dynamic speaker. He has addressed literally tens of thousands of people in his workshops, seminars, and keynote addresses, advising individuals and businesses alike in the art of successful and effective business and product management.

Executives and employees alike can benefit from our custom workshops and retreats.

Nick has accumulated both a wealth of knowledge and numerous accolades as a result of his work in product development and marketing, and he will share this knowledge with you when you engage him to speak on one of the following topics.

In addition to Nick's standard speaking topics, we provide a full range of product leadership workshops and executive retreats, along with other custom services. We encourage you to contact us today with your inquiries regarding the various and flexible speaking services we offer.

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Topics.

The Innovation Boom

The Innovation Boom workshop is based on Nicholas Webb's new book, The Innovation Boom, How to Prosper in the Innovation Driven Economy. This fast-paced workshop will show your organization how to access market leading innovations while concurrently turbo-charging your new product development throughput. You will also take away thought leading skills, including:

• Innovation Safaris
  Learn how to formalize the process of connecting with your customer in their environment. Use the power of active observation to identify new product and service opportunities before the competition.
• Zero Based Innovation
  Learn how to create external innovation groups to bring a clean perspective to your technology platform and market space.
• Online Innovation Portal
  Develop fully automated innovation portals that automatically screen innovation submissions Focus on filtration rather than evaluation.
• Fast Track Evaluation
  Significantly speed up product evaluations using our customer centered evaluation tool.

The Innovation Boom workshop will help your company lead your market in innovation, profit, and customer connectivity.

Workshop Structure
This message is available as a keynote or as a one hour, four hour, or six hour workshop.

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The Customer Service Boom

Based on Nicholas Webb's new book, the Customer Service Boom, Creating Customer Value in the Innovation Driven Economy. This cutting edge workshop highlights the customer service success of America's greatest companies. Perhaps more importantly, it explains the role of innovation in delivering world-class customer service. This workshop offers a turnkey solution on how to lead your market in customer experience. The workshop takeaways include:

• Innovation Safaris
  How to discover what your customer really wants
• Customer Service Continuum
  Innovation poster boarding
• The Customer Service Value Plan
  Eliminating customer punitive policies
• Innovation Deployment

Workshop Structure
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Innovation Canvas

This unique workshop employs all of our systems from Innovation Acquisition, to Evaluation through Commercialization. The canvas approach provides for a non-linear total customizable, new product development process that allows you to customize your process for your corporate culture, market environment, and technology platform. Unlike old-fashioned systems that were created in the 1950's that focus primarily on risk management, two key success drivers, speed and true customer connectivity drive our system. In this powerful workshop, your team will enjoy the following deliverables:

• Get the Best Innovations before your Competitor
• Create Customer Conduits
• Gain access to thousands of new innovations
• Eliminate Evaluation paralyses
• Build better teams
• Replace risk management with opportunity management
• Improve NPD throughput and speed
• Build profit reduce cost

Workshop Structure
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About Nicholas Webb

Nicholas Webb is a master inventor who has been awarded more than thirty patents by the US patent and trademark office. His inventions range from one of the worlds smallest implants to identification systems to protect newborns in hospitals from cross contaminations. He also has invented successful industrial safety projects. Most recently, he has launched a line of extremely successful gourmet kitchen tools that are sold through major national retailers. As the CEO of Lassen Scientific, Incorporated and as a certified management consultant, he leads his firm in providing a wide range of consultant services in the area of creativity, innovation, NPD process improvement and technology transfer. He is the author of The Cost of Being Sick, outlining the future of America's healthcare; The Innovation Boom, which catalogs the role of innovation in America's next wave of economic growth. Other books include The Customer Service Boom.

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