Big ideas are the secret to innovation. Innovation is the key to growth. People recognize the need for BIG ideas that create more opportunities. Finally, there is a solution. BIG IDEA GROWTH Inc. and ieIdeas are providing breakthrough thinking opportunities for healthcare-related professionals in upcoming workshops. These workshops are hands-on and focus on providing BIG ideas for your team and organization’s key challenges.

This workshop approach gives your participants an education on BIG IDEA GROWTH - The Leading System For Producing BIG Ideas To Provide Breakthrough Growth™ while providing stimulating exercises to foster BIG IDEA Thinking. These workshops feature ideation sessions to evoke comprehensive thinking that gets to the core of key issues.

The workshop experience is tailored for each organization to provide the maximum benefit based on your stated outcomes. Your workshop will be facilitated by Tim Sullivan, a developer of the BIG IDEA GROWTH System and leading innovation author and facilitator, and Marianne Mecke, an expert in healthcare issues and BIG ideas. Tim and Marianne facilitated the Healthcare Communication and Marketing Association’s inaugural innovation workshop at the annual conference. Workshop participants were amazed by startling discoveries, idea generation sessions and a capacity to Think BIG.

Workshops feature new innovations in conversation to provide your participants with opportunities to grow ideas by using conversation as a catalyst. Conversational innovation holds many opportunities for healthcare in areas like social media and collaboration. These methods allow stakeholders to participate in innovation initiatives through conversation. You will see how this applies to growing your brand in innovative ways.

To set your team and organization on the path to growth through BIG ideas and breakthroughs, Register your team for a BIG IDEA GROWTH Workshop and receive 1 complimentary attendee for every 5 participants you register. This offer is for new customers only. Registration for the workshop is $998 per person per day starting with 10 paid participants and is guaranteed to pay for itself in the value of ideas generated. These workshops have been known to produce breakthrough ideas that solve key business issues. The workshop may be customized to your specific needs and may require additional time.

You will learn:

• How to generate BIG ideas that grow your business.
• How to find the critical issue holding your business back.
• The secret to managing inspiration.
• Where to find BIG ideas.
• How to leverage existing ideas into BIG ideas.
• How to know when you have the right answer.
• Understanding of a new way to drive innovation.
• How to integrate everyone into collaborative teams.
• How to grow conversation around your purpose.
• How to understand BIG IDEA GROWTH drivers.
• How to apply ideas toward you goal.
• How to identify breakthrough ideas.
• What the secret to BIG IDEA GROWTH really is.
• What the best ideas for your key issues are.
• A proven way to engage customers in IG IDEA GROWTH.

Your workshop will be facilitated in an inspiring location that connects to your goal. Your team will produce valuable output during the workshop that will give you new ideas on how to move your business forward. This one day workshop will open your eyes to new ways of adding value to your offerings in ways that are most meaningful to stakeholders. You will finish the workshop confident with the many new opportunities to break through your key issues. Today, opportunities require BIG thinking and the BIG IDEA GROWTH Workshop is the leading way for producing BIG ideas to provide breakthrough growth.

To get started, call Tim Sullivan (1-847-293-9090) or Marianne Mecke (1-443-480-2634) to schedule an online overview of the workshop and to discuss your specific needs.

What are BIG or breakthrough ideas worth to you, your team, organization and customers? Attend a BIG IDEA GROWTH Workshop and see how BIG your ideas can grow and breakthrough your key issues.

I just finished reading an article in U.S. News and World Report available here titled, Is Healthcare Armageddon Next? which talks about the looming financial crisis in Healthcare. Author, Bernadine Healy, M.D., lays out ideas on why the healthcare system is facing a similar fate as the Wall Street collapse.

What the article points to is a system that needs to think in terms of what its purpose really is. Are we all to assume that skyrocketing costs are sustainable and value is equal to the price of outcomes? Surely there are ideas to make the healthcare system work better for all.

What ideas do you have? Add a comment on what one thing we could do to improve healthcare that would reduce costs and improve outcomes for the greatest number of people?

We are here to join in a new of way of thinking about healthcare. Marketing, Strategy, Communication, Product Development, Branding, Customer Service and Innovation are just some of the areas we will be focusing on. As you read the articles, posts, comments and watch the videos think of how you can use BIG IDEA GROWTH (here) to help you grow upon the ideas.

BIG IDEA GROWTH depends on expansive thinking to build upon ideas. One way to build upon ideas is through conversation. Conversation holds the key in the form of dialog for guiding meaning. Let’s commit to healthy dialog on HealthcareBigIdeaGrowth.com. Your ideas will help all of us to think better and get things done more efficiently and effectively.

Are you ready to grow BIG ideas to help solve the pressing issues you face? What is your greatest current challenge? We will be highlighting some of top common issues facing Healthcare marketing and communication in an upcoming post. To add your top issue, simply add a comment below along with the reason you think it is a key issue facing healthcare. You’ll start to see how BIG ideas flourish.

Forward this to your colleagues and see what their top issues might be.

Participants gained an understanding of the vital role that BIG ideas have in producing innovation that solves common key issues. Participants also previewed a new way for refining their brand called BIG IDEA FLOW. We will highlight this breakthrough in upcoming posts. The participants came away from the session ready to be innovation catalysts in their organizations.

Health-related marketing and communication professionals are beginning to appreciate the need for innovation - as Innovation drives growth. Creativity and brainstorming alone aren’t enough. It’s essential that we learn how to grow BIG ideas to drive innovation.

The community dialog we establish here is critical to helping us shape the future of healthcare. We need to change the way we work together - starting with our colleagues. How can we move from hording ideas out of fear to collaboration, and develop collective thoughts and ideas into quality results? Let’s find a way to work as one and build solutions that benefit all stakeholders.

Now is the time for breakthroughs. You have the capability. Know that BIG ideas are the cornerstone of success. Creating an innovation culture takes BIG ideas. Take the first step. Check your BIG Idea Health: How many new ideas does your organization produce per week? How do you review ideas? How do you develop BIG ideas? These are just some of the questions we’ll be answering in upcoming posts.

Join us as we discover the secrets of BIG IDEA GROWTH.

• So, how do you come up with BIG ideas?

Add your answer in a comment below. We will highlight the most intriguing answers and cover them in upcoming podcasts. We will be inviting community members to join us as we think aloud. Stay tuned and help spread the word about Healthcare BIG IDEA GROWTH. We are here to help you grow.