Client Comments on FarSight Group strategic and innovation methods
"We are a pretty creative bunch and pride ourselves on being open minded and always ready to try new ideas. I was extremely surprised and delighted, after our work with the FarSight Group, to discover we were only tapping a small percentage of our potential for creativity. Our work with them taught us we have much more room than we realized to push new ideas from the brainstorming stage to ultimately our bottom line. Our readers and advertisers are going to see some new exciting things from us thanks to our work with FarSight." Don Henninger, Publisher, Phoenix Business Journal
"We have been using FarSight Group theories and methods at the Schuster Center for over ten years with continued success and real growth which is measured in quality, relationships, fulfillment and dramatically increased net profit." Dr. Michael Schuster, CEO, The Schuster Center for Professional Development
"Leaders at Banner Heart Hospital recently used the FarSight Group’s process to define our hospital's short and long-term strategic roadmap. My tenure as a healthcare administrator has exposed me to a variety of strategic planning sessions. However, this is the first one that has unleashed the collective power of combining forward-thinking plans with creative, long-range ideas. Our team experienced a very lively, spirited discussion that led to enormously focused, deliberate and hard-hitting goals designed to catapult our organization to the next level." Laura Robertson, CEO, Banner Heart Hospital
"By nurturing skills such as problem-solving and collaboration, FarSight Group has been a tremendous resource to our members whose innovations and creativity consistently lead to significant breakthroughs in all areas of technology. FarSight Group’s counsel and perspective at our strategic planning session and executive retreat helped us all gain insight into achieving competitive advantage and better business results." Steven G. Zylstra, President & CEO, Arizona technology Council
"You know how highly we value FarSight techniques. The uses we have found have literally saved our company millions of dollars. That sounds lie a lot of baloney, except the results are there. More importantly than the monetary savings is that you have taught our people to think, to be creative, and to be innovative. As you know, we pride ourselves on running the most forward thinking, the most responsive utility in the country -- two steps ahead of the rest of the industry. Learning again to think is vital to our leadership." Frank W. Griffith, President, Iowa Public Service Company and Presidet Edison Electric Institute
"In a large complex company as Pemex with a new executive team formed for President's Fox administration, it would have been virtually impossible to reach agreements so fast and in such important matters as the future of the State owned monopoly without the help, methodology and technology of Farsight Group" Othón Canales. Executive V.P. Competitiveness and Innovation. Petróleos Mexicanos.
Bradford Huther, Associate Commissioner of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, wrote, "FarSight Group's ability to create synergy among a diverse group of union and management officials during both our strategic and tactical sessions was very impressive." He concluded, "The process really works!"
"FarSight Group provides facilitation and technology designed to help workers make collaborative, creative, and positive change on an ongoing basis, instead of simply reacting to change. It provides companies with an understanding of change and the ability to thrive in an atmosphere of change." IBM Report (6,000 managers trained in Breakpoint Change)
"FarSight Group's innovation tools were a catalyst and pointed us to a whole new strategy and business direction... launching a new distribution system, new products and services, and new integrated marketing activities. Following FarSight Group workshops, CUNA grew from $1 billion in sales to $5.4 billion." Dr. Richard Heins, CEO of CUNA Mutual Insurance Company
"It allows a team to use its creativity to open up the box of future possibilities, it explores and brings clarity to the rich diversity of ideas present in each of us, and allows a group to quickly come together around the prioritization of initiatives. I would highly recommend FarSight Group's process to any group/organization wrestling with the realities of constant discontinuous change and seeking more effective ways of organizing itself in response to change." Craig Schrotenboer, Vice-President, Herman Miller, Inc.
"I have participated in over twenty years of these strategic sessions at Exxon and other major companies. The FarSight Group process surpasses these by at least an order of magnitude." Michael E. Spaeth, Corporate Vice President, Science Applications International Corporation
"The FarSight Group is clearly one of the most innovative thinking organizations of our time. They have had a tremendous impact on the success of our business. They broaden your perspective and make you think. FarSight Group was instrumental in helping BB&T innovate in an economically profitable and rational manner. I would strongly reccommend FarSight Group." John Allison, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Branch Bank & Trust (BB&T has grown from 600 Million in assets to over 150 Billion.)
"Our business strategy was enriched, embellished, and expanded after using FarSight. (The facilitation of the Strategic Innovation Process helped us...) envision our strategy and move from pilot test to 400 Million dollars in revenue." "I have used the tools with clients to produce dramatic, positive results. The concepts and technology are the most important breakthrough in Management I have witnessed in my thirty years of consulting." Robert M. Elmore - Managing Partner and Director, Arthur Andersen & Co. Business Systems Consulting
"Before using FarSight Group, our strategic and tactical meetings were chaotic. They were difficult to facilitate and everyone's opinions were not heard. The result was often that the few who spoke most imposed their ideas on the group, making decisions which were unsuitable to the mission of the business. With FarSight Group, we were successful in reaching a decision harmoniously, hearing everyone's position, and greatly increasing the feeling of participation and overall success." Carlos Medina Turon -- Director Coca Cola Systems
"Our growth has been astonishing. FarSight Group has not only helped us create and prioritize our strategies and tactics for growth and change, but more importantly we can share information in a non-threatening way that builds real trust and support. This is a very natural process that we use on a continuing basis." Jerry Marlar - President, Intermedics Orthopedics, Inc.
"When there is potential for controversy, FarSight Group's process takes the heat out of the room and focuses attention on the data. You're able to talk about disagreement without polarizing an audience. It provides a powerful way to quickly focus a group to prioritize issues leading to action steps. It gives you hard numbers for soft issues." Karen Otazo - Manager, Human Resources Department, ARCO
"FarSight Group has helped our organization better understand the creative thinking and decision-making processes we need to follow to design breakthrough solutions for our customer's needs. It is robust without being too rigid, adding to the creativity and wisdom found in our company. We have already applied the requirement to thoroughly understand our customers, to identify needs that we are confident we can solve." Greg Clark, Vice President, Innovation and Product Portfolio. Johnson Wax, JohnsonDiversy
"We have been talking about "re-inventing" government for 6-8 years, this is a process that makes re-invention possible...we built trust, real teamwork, a shared vision and developed creative strategies to go forward." "The FarSight Group Creative Strategic Thinking Experience was a truly empowering and liberating experience for me personally and for our executive team. All who participated came away feeling renewed and much better prepared to accept and lead change and to try new ways to build partnerships with those with whom we work and the people we serve." Terry Zerkle - City Manager, City of Tempe -- Arizona
"In today's highly competitive global economy, fundamental change is a crucial element for defining the roadmap for innovation and creativity across all of the enterprise aspects of our businesses. Working with the FarSight process for innovative and creative thinking has allowed us to go back to the fundamentals of nature and apply a concept in transactional areas, like organization process definition and designs for tomorrow. This has enabled us to bring together breakthrough teams that were once in conflict to those that are now selecting and executing strategic ideas with a focus on the business rather than their respective functional areas. These successes have now allowed for the break through of paradigms in other areas as we explore the re-invention of our products for the futuristic markets of tomorrow." Donald L. Deptowicz Delphi Electronics Group General Director, Customer Satisfaction (Release Date: September 17, 2008 TROY, Mich. - Delphi Corporation has received the prestigious J. D. Power and Associates Award for its quality performance.)
"Everyone on the Council team loved your workshops...they were recharged by both your words and your presence. It is support like yours that is helping transform and renew our nation's governmental structures." Ron Redmon, The Council for Excellence in Government
"The steps you took us through...are helping us make decisions and plans for a more successful future. Your business background and credentials, along with your care and concern for us, produced excellent results." Ron Willingham - Chairman, Integrity Training Systems
"Applied to an agency's strategic planing needs, for instance, this interactive, computer-assisted process helps people in efficiently and effectively designing and changing complex strategies to deal with a world of rapid, unpredictable and turbulent change. Groups are given the power of collaboration with privacy, flexibility, and reliability to assess their systems, evaluate their information, identify future opportunities, generate different approaches to meeting goals, evaluate the effectiveness of alternative approaches, develop an effective implementation plan and monitor and evaluate progress." Ira Jekowsky, Deputy Commissioner, US General Services Administration
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