The goal of Energy Voyager’s Innovation Services Programs is to help your company gain a decisive and continuing competitive advantage by developing a unique combination of innovation tools, search engines, capabilities, and practices.

Innovation Audits

Energy Voyager’s Innovation Audits include the following:

• Strategic Assessment—an analysis of your company’s innovation leverage when compared with your competition.
• Basic IP Analysis—we assess your patent portfolio, then “deconstruct” or “break” your patents, then help you see how to fill in the gaps.
• Alliance Opportunities Assessment—We help you develop a Practical Plan to deploy strategic alliances as Engines of Innovation.
• EV Matrix Analysis—We analyze your company’s products and services based on our proprietary Energy Voyager Matrix to identify breakthrough ideas and opportunities for innovation.
•  A Final Report, ”Innovation for Competitive Advantage,” including an Action Plan which outlines how you can implement our ideas and recommendations.

Please contact our Director of Client Innovation Services, Nick Rivers, for further information.)

Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) Outsource Contracting

Who is your company’s Chief Innovation Officer? Your Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) is responsible for creating an environment conducive to breakthrough ideas which will advance your company’s research and intellectual property portfolio. He/She is responsible for developing, financing, and managing research partnerships with other commercial entities and non-profit organizations, the venture capital community, granting agencies, governments and foundations. Every innovative company operating today in the New Global Energy Economy is well advised to focusing some strategic investment to generating a continuous flow of innovative ideas. These will constitute your company’s Treasure Trove, whether or not you implement all of them immediately. Indeed the art of being able to retrieve and then discover the patterns among your best ideas will become an important element in your strategic advantage.

Using our COIN, Search Engines, and Global Bain Trust we seek to become your Virtual, Outsourced CIO, essentially your eyes, ears, and hands, scouting out commercial opportunities on the Internet and elsewhere, and working with your teams (which we can train) and helping your company implement its innovation strategies. (Please e-mail or call our 800 number to discuss)

Short Courses & Training Programs (with Calendar of events)

“Turning Breakthrough Ideas into Gold in the New Global Energy Economy—the Basic System”

A 1-day seminar introducing the Basic Energy Voyager Innovation System on how to find, mine, and claim the “Gold” in the NGEE, including our assessment of where the gold is and some of the tools to find, mine, and claim it.

This seminar includes:

• Julian Gresser’s, Piloting Through Chaos—Wise Leadership/Effective Negotiation for the 21st Century
• Artful Navigator software—an expert system which guides you to make wise decisions
• 1 hour CD summarizing the Basic System
• Basic Best Alliances Practices Training Manual
• 1-month free subscription in Energy Voyager COIN

Basic Fee: $ 450.

Initial programs to be offered in San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Boston, and New York

In-House Training: “Building Alliances as Engines of Innovation for the New Global Energy Economy—A Complete System for Designing, Negotiating, and Managing Successful Strategic Alliances and Collaborative Networks (COINs)”

This is an adaptation to the New Global Energy Economy of the basic training course which Julian Gresser has offered during the past 15 years to companies around the world. The basic fee is $ 1000 per person with a minimum of $ 25,000 for this 3 day program. The most effective plan is an initial 2 day intensive training with a follow up final day three months later. The initial 2 day program accomplishes the following;

• Introduces the Basic System-- “Building Alliances as Engines of
• Innovation for the New Global Energy Economy
• Provides an analysis based on Energy Voyager Search and other capabilities of the innovation opportunities and how to find, mine, and claim them.
• Builds and Trains Highly Adaptive Negotiating/Alliance Teams
• Designs an Action Plan ready for immediate implementation 

Deliverables: 

• Basic Text: Piloting Through Chaos—Wise Leadership/Effective Negotiation for the 21st Century
• Artful Navigator software-- an expert system which guides you to make wise decisions
• 1 hour CD summarizing the Basic System
• Basic Training Manual: Best International Alliances Practices
• Online coaching
• 3-month free subscription in Energy Voyager Collaborative Innovation Network (COIN)