Customized Facilitation Services
Including: Product Ideation/Creativity Sessions and Opportunity Identification
and Problem Solving around numerous operational and people related
challenges.
The Gatehouse Alliance has extensive experience helping clients develop and deliver
powerful, innovative solutions. The flexible, holistic methodology is customized to your
needs so you'll leapfrog ahead with a fraction of the usual time and effort. We are
committed to producing innovation through practical, pragmatic and efficient solutions
for clients. Our team doesn't use a canned process - we create a custom approach
using to your unique situation using cutting edge methodologies.
Before a facilitated session, we will work with you to identify the strategic and tactical
challenges, then customize pre-work activities to maximize participants' effectiveness
in our facilitated session. We believe that your group stands to get a bigger payoff
from facilitated work if we've spent time up front trying to pierce the fundamental
questions that, if answered, will give us the most creative insights, and ultimately, the
most innovative solutions and end tactics.
The laser focus of a facilitated session is designed to let key individuals explore-
both broadly and deeply - specific challenges and walk away with a critical mass of
innovative, workable ideas, high-potential concepts and specific action plans. There are
five distinct focuses in most facilitated sessions including:
- Warming up and familiarization with the processes
- Generating ideas
- Analysis of solutions
- Further idea development
- Implementation strategy, tactics and timelines.
Thinking outside the box often means bringing in others from outside your box. We
provide Expert Ideators who are versed in many areas. We select them because of
their ability to fit with your needs as well as their ability to effectively generate ideas that
stretch your thinking.
We also provide Fast Visual Prototypers - artists who have a special ability to capture
participant perspective in real time and succinctly brings the idea to life in a picture
that is relevant to the discussion - even for left brained people! A picture is worth a
thousand words and in a fast moving ideation session with many ideas, being able to
visualize the concepts at hand leads to breaking through old norms and expectations
and clear tactics for implementation.