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Corporate School for Innovators
Planning Inquiry

This form is the first step in opening an interactive dialog with the Virtual Thinking Expedition Company (vTx) and the School for Innovators to explore the potential of designing and planning a School for Innovators Expedition for your company. During a corporate School for Innovators the participants focus on a broad general and urgent challenge or problem facing the company or a project team or group.

This inquiry process will assist you in the first stage of examining what might be possible. A School or Innovators is limited to either 20 or 24 participants, depending on the design and length of the School. Based on past experience with both the School for Innovators and operational Thinking Expeditions, 25% of the participants (1 out of every 4) should be "outsiders" (participants from other organizations or companies) to bring the diversity to the School that has proven essential to its success. These outsiders can be restricted to non-competing companies, suppliers and customers -- and the Virtual Thinking Expedition Company can assist in recruiting them from our base of previous graduates.

A senior company officer will need to volunteer to be the Schools sponsor and backer - and to participate in the exploration of the strategic focus area or areas (challenges).

It is also possible to send a team of 4, 6 or 8 to participate in one of the scheduled "open" Schools for Innovators held through out the year. Group tuition rates are available.

Should you wish to discuss a School for Innovators and your strategic focus with us directly, please answer these questions first so that we may help us help you move in the optimum direction faster; after doing that, print a copy of this form for reference and call us at (830) 456-4963.

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1. Why do you think that a School for Innovators may be worthwhile for your corporation or group?

2. Our Mission:

3. Our Corporate Vision and Values are:

4. A "Mess" is an inter-related bunch of issues, problems, obstacles, challenges, history, and opportunities. A strategic Mess we are faced with is:

5. Some major issue and challenges that are imbedded in our Mess are:

6. Some unknowns we would hope to explore during a School for Innovators Expedition are:

7. Some learning objectives we have for a corporate School for Innovators are:

8. Some specific skills, tools and processes we would want our graduates to return with are:

9. Potential backers and sponsors for a corporate School for Innovators are

10. Some locations where we might hold a School for Innovators (other than Estes Park, Colorado):

11. Some dates that would work for us are:

12. Some questions we have are:

Please contact me to explore the next steps in planning an Expedition.

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