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eVISA Application
EDS MindVoyage
An Innovation Ground School Thinking Adventure

A MindVoyage creates a framework for thinking diffferent and doing diffferent in the context of innovation and change. Drawing on the Innovation Ground School developed by the Virtual Thinking Expedition Company (vTx), MindVoyages focus on basic innovation skills, tools and techniques, the concepts of creative problem solving, and how to change and improve meetings. The MindVoyage follows the lines of a Thinking Adventure and provides a Stage I baseline, orientation and jumping off point for attending the longer Stage II School for Innovators in Estes Park, Colorado.

The questions in this eVISA are first step in your pre-work for the EDS MindVoyage Innovation Ground School. Please answer each question as fully as possible (longer answers are better than short ones); your answers will be used in the design, content and flow of the event.

Name:

Organization:

Title/Area of Responsibility:

Work Mailing Address:

Home Mailing Address:

Work Telephone Number(s):

Home Telephone Number(s):

Fax Number:

Work E-Mail Address:

Home E-Mail Address:






1. My Mission & Purpose in our organization (1-2 lines):

2. What I really do (not a job or position title): (1-2 lines):

3. Why I would like to attend the Innovation Ground School (2-3 lines):

4. Who referred or recruited you, or how did you learn about the Innovation Ground School (1-2):

5. Some challenges I face that require different thinking (2-3 items):

6. Some critical issues or projects in our organization that need innovation (2-3 items):

7. List any creative thinking and innovation tools and/or techniques you use regularly or are familiar with:

8. What training classes or conferences have you attended related to innovation, creativity, change, and teams (e.g. TQ, quality, ISO 9000, 6 Sigma, CPSI)

9. Some new skills I would like to learn are (3-5 items):

10. Some obstacles to innovation in our organization are (3-5 lines):

11. The MESS - that I would like to work on during the Innovation Ground School is (2-3 lines):

12. RESULTS! Some specific results I hope to bring back from this Thinking Adventure (1-2 lines):

I hereby apply to join the EDS MindVoyage Innovation Ground School Thinking Adventure to be held July 13-16, 2003 and agree to the following conditions:

  1. Ordinary business will need to be handled between the hours of 7pm and 7am, i.e., outside the operating hours of this MindVoyage.


  2. All devices such as cell phones, pagers, handguns and other similar weapons must be checked at the door. They will be returned for use over the lunch period and then recollected.


PRINT OUT A COPY OF YOUR VISA BEFORE TRANSMITTING.
BRING IT WITH YOU ON EXPEDITION.


NOTE THAT "I Agree" WILL NEXT TAKE YOU TO THE KEIRSEY TEMPERAMENT WEBSITE AS THE FINAL STEP IN COMPLETING THIS eVISA

Should you have any questions or difficulties, please call the School for Innovators, Cypress, Texas at (281) 304-7070 or send an e-mail to: HQ@thinking-expedition.com