Annovation

How does your business improve?

Solve the Right Problem

Build the Right Solution

Solve the Right Problem

Many businesses often prioritize solving the most urgent and recent problems. Annovation helps evaluate the real business problems and prioritize which ones to address next.

Annovation

Build the Right Solution

Solve the Right Problem

We teach your team the skill of innovation using a unique framework that combines the best of design thinking with sound business principles. Our goal is to help you and your team solve the right problems with the right solutions and leverage innovation to drive your business forward and build and innovative culture.

Build the Right Solution

Most businesses lack a system for generating, capturing, and refining new ideas into lasting, meaningful solutions. That's where Annovation comes in, offering assistance with idea generation, idea capture, and refining those ideas into solutions.

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Innovation Hub Community

The Innovation Hub 💡 Community is a dynamic community designed for entrepreneurs, innovators, creatives, and business owners. Our mission is to foster a collaborative environment where visionaries come together to share ideas, gain insights, and drive forward-thinking solutions.

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Innovation Workshops

Innovation Hub Community

Our innovation workshops will teach you the latest and most effective techniques for fostering innovation. It is our passion and focus to provide you with the methods that startups and tech companies have successfully used for years to establish thousands of companies. In this unique service, we will impart to you the skills of innovation and the steps to make your company more innovative.

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Chief Innovation Officer

Innovation Hub Community

Chief Innovation Officer

If your business would like additional support after a workshop, Annovation also offers a fractional Chief Innovation Officer role. We will assist you in detecting, tracking, and prioritizing problems and in generating, tracking, and refining ideas into solutions. We will also help you build an innovative culture that enables you to continue prioritizing working "on the business."

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Start your innovation journey with an innovation workshop!

Innovation in Your Business

Innovation is the process which your business improves and iterates. If you spend most of your time “fighting fires” it is unlikely that your business will achieve its goals. Annovation will teach you the skills that you and you team need to transform your business, the skill of innovation.

Over 50% of the Fortune 500 companies that existed in 2000 were gone by 2020. One thing is clear in business, stagnation kills businesses. Don’t let your business fall into this trap, learn how to change and improve your business so that your business can be better every day.

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Ready to level-up your teams innovation skills? Our workshops are designed to help you and your team build the skill of innovation and your innovative culture.

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Innovation in the 2020s, 2030s, and beyond...

Why would someone pay you for a product or service?

Answer: product-market fit.

The increased pace of technology innovation means that innovation in business is key to thriving in the 2020s and will become essential to surviving the 2030s and beyond. The 2020s and 2030s will be characterized by innovative leaps (which are many incremental innovations noticed at one time) similar in size to the adoption of the Internet. With any sizeable innovative leap, the ripple effects force companies to innovate or risk falling behind, and many companies are feeling this pressure now with Generative AI. The rise of AI and its inevitable intersection with robotics and the world’s infrastructure (both physical and digital), in addition to other technology innovations, create a pace of technology innovation unlike any time we have seen before, meaning the pressure on businesses to innovate will also be unlike any time we have seen before.

Why does technology innovation force businesses to innovate? Businesses are forced to innovate because technology innovation creates space in markets wherever businesses refuse to adopt key technology that has market demand, allowing new gaps to be filled by other businesses. This change is best observed through the lens of product-market fit. Product-market fit is a yes or no question, with the answer addressed at the time of sale. Product-market fit is to what extent your solution (in the form of your product, including its price) matches the problem the market demands at that time. To be a successful business in the long term, you need continuous product-market fit, meaning your solution matches the problem the market demands and has the flexibility to ensure that you have the same or better fit in the future in the ever-changing market.

Continuous product-market fit is about maintaining and improving the relationship between product and market. Markets are not static; they are dynamic. Therefore, you must work to continue to match product and market. A neglected product-market pair is almost always noticed by the market, and if left unaddressed, a new market alternative will step in to complete the pairing. Innovation in a capitalist economy is the matchmaker between product and market. Like a tailor matches clothing to the wearer, innovation matches the product to the market. Therefore, innovation is the product-market tailor, as it serves to improve and maintain the fit. In the same way tailoring is a skill, so is innovation. Innovation is a skill to be taught and refined.

If innovation is a skill and technology innovation forces the demand for this skill to increase, who will teach the skill? That is where Annovation comes in; we aim to be the best innovation teachers for businesses because you need to innovate (or maybe Annovate) when the world turns upside down.

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Innovate through Anything

Innovate through Anything

How does your business improve?

Solve the Right Problem

Build the Right Solution

Solve the Right Problem

Annovation

Build the Right Solution

Solve the Right Problem

Build the Right Solution

Build the Right Solution

Build the Right Solution

Be Change Ready

Build an Innovative Culture!

Services

Innovation Hub Community

Innovation Hub Community

Innovation Hub Community

Innovation Workshops

Innovation Hub Community

Innovation Hub Community

Chief Innovation Officer

Innovation Hub Community

Chief Innovation Officer

Start your innovation journey with an innovation workshop!

Innovation in Your Business

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Meet the Founder

Alec Kauffman

Innovation in the 2020s, 2030s, and beyond...