Joel Barker

Titles

Innovation at the Verge: How to Find the New Territory for New Ideas!
Innovation has always been key to the ongoing success of both business and society. Joel Barker has found an unused pathway to innovation in the 21st century.

In this presentation he will explain how to find, explore, and use this new territory of innovation -- Terra Innovata Incognita. He will show how Mother Nature has been using this territory for over 500 million years to create biological innovations, and then show how you can make it work for your organization.

Three Shades of Green: The New Opportunities for Sustainable Innovations
Did you know there are three shades of Green? If your company is looking into sustainable technology, you need to understand the difference. Do you know what "Human Tech" is all about? If you are operating in the field of medicine, you need to know. This presentation will give you a whole new way to catalog your own technologies and those of your competitors. This presentation offers a fundamentally new way to look at the evolution of technology.

Finding the Future Faster: New tools and New Responsibilities for 21st Century Leaders
How can you get more information about the future in a more timely fashion without hiring a special staff to do it? This presentation answers that question with Joel Barker`s "Strategic Exploration tools" which use staff already in place to find the future faster.

The basic thesis of this presentation is that with just a couple of changes in information gathering structure, you can engage your team in simple systems that will increase the amount of useful information gathered significantly at almost no added cost.

The Power of Vision: A 21st Century Look
There is a lot more to understanding vision than just what Jim Collins has written about. Joel Barker, who introduced the importance of vision to corporate America starting in 1985 shows you the qualitative side of vision that all leaders need to know.

Driving Innovation and Creating New Wealth: The Real Role of Diversity
This presentation turns the diversity discussion inside out and shows how organizations, cultures, and nations with great diversity gain extraordinary access to new innovations and new wealth.

Barker makes the case for the following formula: Diversity is the base on which innovations are created; innovation is the base on which new wealth is generated. If we want to grow the wealth of the world, then we need innovation, which means we need diversity. Barker also explains the mechanism of how diverse elements are turned into wealth through a process called "mutualism."

The Power of Paradigms
This presentation can be customized in many ways. The key concepts are:
~The definition of a paradigm.
~The paradigm curve and how to map your organization onto the curve.
~The role of the outsider in changing your paradigm and how to turn them into assets.
~How to be a paradigm pioneer and its advantages.
~The paradigm effect and how it keeps you from seeing your own future.
~Going back to zero-how to know when it`s happening and why you want to do it to your competitors.

The Power of Vision
An organization without vision is an organization at risk. Joel takes you through the research and shows you how to begin to build a vision.

Tactics of Innovation
How have some companies been successful in introducing new products and services while others have failed again and again? It`s not about the idea, it`s about the tactics you use for introduction. Joel Barker shares 10 guidelines based on Professor James Bright`s classic research in innovation.