Thinking Tools for Innovation: Practical Patterns to Break Barriers

FREE 3-hour Live Interactive Webinar

Innovation isn’t magic—it’s a skill you can master. Join our interactive webinar to learn proven thinking patterns, break cognitive barriers, and apply structured methods like Function Follows Form to develop innovative products, services, and processes. Discover how to make experimentation a safe, valuable part of your organisational culture and embed innovation into your daily work.

Why This Training?

Innovation is not about imagining an entirely new reality — it is about creating new value within the existing one and turning ideas into practical, feasible solutions. Many people equate innovation with pure invention, but true innovation requires systematically challenging the status quo and having the courage to experiment.

Research shows that anyone can become an effective innovator through structured practice. The real challenge for organisations lies in fostering an environment where experimentation is encouraged — even when it results in failure — because this is how individuals, teams, and businesses evolve and grow.

To embed innovative thinking into an organisation’s DNA, two elements are essential:

1. Software for the brain – cognitive frameworks and thinking patterns that help identify, shape, and develop new possibilities.
2. Software for the organisation – structured routines and processes that make innovation a natural and repeatable part of everyday work.

This webinar introduces practical tools in both areas, enabling participants to overcome cognitive fixedness, apply structured innovation methodologies, and implement systematic development processes that drive sustainable impact.

Agenda highlights

Intro

• Innovation vs. creation – why do people confuse them?
• “Inside the box thinking” – two stages of innovative thinking
• Why spontaneous innovation is rare
• Cognitive fixedness and how to break it
• Thinking patterns for innovation

Innovative Product and/or Service Development

• The Function Follows Form (FFF) rule
• Patterns for product, service, and process innovation
• Applying the FFF process: subtraction, multiplication, division, adding new functions, creating new dependencies
• How to organize a systematic innovation development process

Trainer

Bartosz Stawski – a specialist in Thinking Tools in management, a practitioner of Theory of Constraints (TOC) and Innovative Problem Solving based on behavioural economics.

What Next?

Take the next step after the webinar and register for the Innovative Thinking Tools 2-day intensive course.