Remote Innovation Workshops
Nowadays, there are broader questions that everyone is curious about and constantly ask us;
- Will companies keep pace with remote working life?
- Will it be possible to work efficiently from afar?
I would like to answer these questions by approaching through the innovation window. “Can remote innovation workshops be held?” The short answer is yes but how? Let’s take a look.
As GOOINN, if we wanted to differentiate our value proposition, we should change existing consultancy models and remove time and space constraints. While doing this, we developed two products: Innovation Platform and “Girişimciye Dönüş” which is Online Entrepreneurship Workshops.
The Innovation Platform is a platform that supports the collection, voting and most importantly the quality of the idea. As far as we experienced that biggest pain about idea collection is related with the quality of it. That’s why we focused on increasing the quality rather than voting or selecting the idea.
Online Entrepreneurship Workshops is a digital platform that enables individuals or employees to create new products, services or business models in 13 steps, supported by videos and online tools. More than three thousand people have developed new products, services or business models to date. With Online Entrepreneurship Workshops, we continued to remain focused on creating value through many social or open innovation collaborations. Our goal was to create an online workshop experience where you progressed step by step, rather than just watching the videos and having nothing at the end. Below you can see an example of how you can develop a new product, service or business model with the support of video and tools step by step.
As a company serving in Istanbul and London, in addition to what we have learned in these two products, we have already integrated 22 products that support remote work.
While conducting on-site workshops that we are used to doing, we used to have A1 printouts (Canvas), post-it, color pencils, and so on. At the end of the workshops, we have completed the process with full of work that we couldn’t get enough of looking at. Now, with Miro, which we experienced a lot and love, we carry out these workshops online in exactly the same way. Although we have had the ability to innovate online in GOOINN for a long time, all companies are just discovering that this can be done. While social distance enables initiatives and large companies to develop a new perspective, it seems to make it possible to organize online innovation workshops at GOOINN from Istanbul to Ankara or from London to Amsterdam. Below you can see an example from a study that we did with Miro.
In summary, with the transformation of our way of doing business, even if it is compulsory, our domain can easily get out of the country where we exist, and also the talented teams will enter the market of any country and increase the competition.
I hope that it is possible to look positively and survive when the economic crisis expectations are at peak. I love to hear from you. I wish you a lot of work and very productive days.
