The Yearly Idea Navigator Guide is a unique workbook that is designed to help you keep creative problem-solving at the forefront of your thinking and planning on a weekly basis throughout the year. Developed by Ed Bernacki of The Idea Factory, It provides a practical, easy-to-use and thought-provoking format for recording your ideas and tracking your progress toward their successful implementation.
The concept behind the Yearly Idea Navigator Guide is simple: Identify 12 worthwhile challenges for the coming year, one for each month, and record them in the Idea Navigator Guide. Then spend 12 minutes a day brainstorming ideas to solve these challenges.
The Yearly Idea Navigator Guide is published in an attractive spiral-bound format with thick, durable pages, which will help it to withstand the rigorsof being carried around in your briefcase or computer bag for a full year.
The guide contains four main sections:
1. A monthly calendar to help you identify when and where innovative thinking is needed, such as important meetings, projects or goals for the month.
2. 12 one-page perspectives on innovative thinking to help you manage your ideas.
3. Three quarterly innovation scorecards help you measure your results, plus a year end scorecard.
4. Idea management note pages to help you manage 12 ideas into results
The monthly one-page essays -- which Bernacki calls “monthly insights” -- include topics such as "It's the Small Ideas That Count," "Innovative Thinking Skills for Managing Ideas" and "Tips for Promoting Your Ideas." The quarterly innovation scorecard asks questions such as "In which projects, activities or programs that I invest time and resources that made a difference?" and "Review the past three months in terms of skills. What skills have you developed to manage your ideas in more powerful ways?"
The Yearly Idea Navigator Guide also comes with a two-page "getting started" guide and how to use it for individual ideation or team/department brainstorming.
Conclusion
As you think about the creative goals that you would like to accomplish in the coming year, why not invest in a tool that will help to take you there? The Yearly Idea Navigator Guide is both practical and fun, and makes it easy to both recording your ideas and audit your progress. In addition, the monthly essays provide helpful reinforcement and fresh learning about how to manage and sell your best ideas.
The Yearly Idea Navigator Guide costs $29.95 (volume discounts are available) and can be ordered from The Idea Factory website at http://www.wowgreatidea.com/.
