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We Will Develop you To Transform Your BUsiness
Master Growth
Master Success
Master Innovation
$3 Billion
In Value Created
For our customers using this exact training research and designed by Adam Hartung
12,000+
Case Studies
Leverage real-world data from research at Harvard Business School in partnership with Clayton Christensen
#1 Leadership
Columnist for Forbes.com
With over 90 million readers since 2009 plus additional publications
Introducing
Our Premiere Business Course by Spark Partners
Think Growth | Think Success | Think Innovation
Adam Hartung
Course Author & Instructor
Uniquely qualified to author and lead this course, Adam is a world-renowned expert on innovation has spoken at over 1,000 leadership events as a keynote speaker. He has spent a career building exponential growth in companies by teaching executives to identify and leverage true value. His insights into business growth have been featured in over 600 journals, including such notables as Inc, Adweek, Fortune, Washington Times.
Manny Teran
Course Co-Author & Integrator
As an award winning business leader and entrepreneur, Manny has expertise in the areas of innovation, rapid technology deployment, sales, and marketing. He has applied his vast cross-market experience to launch hundreds of successful commercialization project and support the growth of established businesses.
This Exact training has been Implemented In...
Learn to THINK LIKE AN INNOVATOR and GROW your business into the future!
In This Transformational Business Master Class
You Will Learn How to...
Generate Higher Profits
by increasing sales by aligning your business's emerging trends
Deliver Better Value
and draw in more customers by truly understanding their needs
Become a Market-Driver
by staying in front of trends and innovation and learn to properly leverage them
Build Lasting and Sustainable Success
through delivering true customer value and better customer solutions
Develop New Businesses & Products
deliver products with high growth opportunity that yield higher returns
Sieze Hidden Marketplace Opportunities
learn to identify gaps in the market and capture additional market-share
Professional Training in Growth-Driven Mindset & Innovation
Course Description
The THINK Innovation Course is Spark Partners’ premiere master class offering breakthrough insight to disrupt conventional business tactics and foster an effective growth-driven mindset, giving you the tools to think like an innovator and create continuous growth in your business.
Whether you’re new to business or the leader of a Fortune 500 company, this course is designed for everyone aiming to grow to the next level.
The course offers side-by-side discussion between innovation and business experts Adam Hartung and Manny Teran on the meaning of innovation in the age of information, what it takes to create it, and effective strategies for rethinking what more your business can offer.
Adam offers knowledge and exercises from years of research and experience leading organizations towards strategic growth, while Manny breaks the philosophy down into workable concepts to get entrepreneurs disrupting their marketplace.
Whether you’re new to business or the leader of a Fortune 500 company, this course is designed for everyone aiming to grow to the next level.
The course offers side-by-side discussion between innovation and business experts Adam Hartung and Manny Teran on the meaning of innovation in the age of information, what it takes to create it, and effective strategies for rethinking what more your business can offer.
Adam offers knowledge and exercises from years of research and experience leading organizations towards strategic growth, while Manny breaks the philosophy down into workable concepts to get entrepreneurs disrupting their marketplace.
THINK Innovation
Master Class Bundle
Think Growth. Think Success. Think Innovation.
Expert Instruction - Direct guidance from certified course instructors.
Extensive Content - Over 25 lessons and 50 videos covering essential elements
Course Integration - Designed to help you apply learnings in the real-world
Real Engagement - Interact and discuss your business challenges for impact
Trends - Leveraging the latest trends in your market to create growth
Bonus! - Lifetime access to SparkCom Portal + SparkCom Group
Expert Masterclass: $1,997
* - financing and scholarships available
Enroll Now!
Need Help Or Have Questions?
If you have any questions about the course or need guidance please contact us today!
Learn to THINK Like an Innovator
Great innovators think differently and launch marketplace disruptions. Our online master class teaches you how to think, create, and execute like an innovator.
Our breakthrough insights and methods will help change your mindset, giving you the tools, techniques, and strategies to create a culture of innovation in your business.
We combine our powerful content, derived from over 12,000 case studies, 20 years of research, and 45 years of successful business experience, with the latest discoveries in adult learning to give you a truly unique business course that will disrupt the way you think and drive sustainable growth in your business.
Our breakthrough insights and methods will help change your mindset, giving you the tools, techniques, and strategies to create a culture of innovation in your business.
We combine our powerful content, derived from over 12,000 case studies, 20 years of research, and 45 years of successful business experience, with the latest discoveries in adult learning to give you a truly unique business course that will disrupt the way you think and drive sustainable growth in your business.
Extensive Content
Over 30 lessons and 50 videos covering essential elements
Expert Instruction
Guided learning process to impact your mindset
Course Integration
Retention designed to help you apply learnings in the real-world
Real Engagement
Interact and discuss with Instructors & Community Peers
Self-Paced
Progress at your own speed
5-6 Weeks
4-6 hours per week
In Our Exclusive Master Class We Will Cover...
Why is it Important to Innovate?
- Understand the importance in innovating at all levels of business experience and expertise to survive and thrive in the world.
What is Innovation?
- Understand innovation as a necessary and direct response to the world’s rapidly changing needs.
Why Creating Innovation is a Challenge
- Develop an understanding of the resource investment, changes, and various barriers encountered in the process of innovating.
The Importance of Growth and What It Takes to Create It
- Learn the #1 rule to creating growth.
- Understand that long-term business success requires constant, strategic action to drive growth, and that assuming growth will lead to failure.
How Change Happens
- Understanding how innovation, trends, and changes happen in the marketplace, and how those changes can make or break a business.
- Use growth rates to evaluate a business’s growth trajectory, and determine its next steps to minimizing losses and maximizing growth.
Leading Your Business Out of a Growth Decline
- Learn how existing and successful companies have taken actions to seek new growth opportunities in response to looming threats of failure.
- Embrace the possibility of total business transformation to ensure its survival and obtain long-term success.
Know Your Value, Delivery, and Customer
- Understand your business’ unique value proposition to create new, innovative methods of delivery that meet customer needs and place you ahead of competitors.
Focus on Your Customers, NOT Your Success Formula
- Understand how sticking to standard business and operational procedures can limit growth and cause an organization to lose sight of the value proposition.
- Identify existing components of your business’s success formula that bock pursuit of new opportunities and projects.
Tactics for Effectively Planning for Innovation
- Learn the concepts, and tangible strategies and tools for to effectively plan for innovation including:
-Planning Outside-In
-Planning Continuously
-Trend Based Planning
-Scenario Planning
-RELO Matrix for Resource allocation
-Growth Megaphone for Amplifying Growth
Committing to Blank Space
- Understand blank space as an essential component to an organization seeking continuous business growth.
Understanding Risk
- Understand the difference between the perceived risks and real risks of choosing to continue business as usual and beginning entirely new projects.
Making Strategic Pivots
- Learn how business leaders can create effective shifts in their organization in attempts to dominate rising markets and take their business to new heights.
Creating an Evergreen Organization
- After building on the course strategies for innovation planning, learn to create and sustain an evergreen organization that continually seeks and actively creates new business opportunities.
Managing and Classifying Innovations
- Identify the difference between sustaining and disruptive innovations.
- Understand the purpose of and create an innovation portfolio of numerous innovations that have been or will be applied to a business over time.
Understanding Lock-in
- Identify the strict practices of an organization that prevent significant changes from being made, and why they’re necessary to remove effectively innovate.
Permission Acquisition
- Understand the importance of asking members within an organization for permission to make significant changes to innovate.
Evaluating Competition and New Customers
- Broaden your scope of competitors and consumers to optimize your business’s potential to succeed and grow.
Innovator Case Studies
- Steve Jobs and Apple.
- Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Group.
THINK Innovation
Master Class Bundle
Think Growth. Think Success. Think Innovation.
Expert Instruction - Direct guidance from certified course instructors.
Extensive Content - Over 25 lessons and 50 videos covering essential elements
Course Integration - Designed to help you apply learnings in the real-world
Real Engagement - Interact and discuss your business challenges for impact
Trends - Leveraging the latest trends in your market to create growth
Bonus! - Lifetime access to SparkCom Portal + SparkCom Group
Expert Masterclass: $1,997
* - financing and scholarships available
Enroll Now!
Need Help Or Have Questions?
If you have any questions about the course or need guidance please contact us today!
Want some THINK Innovation words of wisdom?
Take a peak at some insight from Adam & Manny!
You can’t make more money if you don’t grow your revenues. Nobody ever saved their way to prosperity. So if you want to get rich, you have to grow. This course will give you the easiest, most plausible and reliable pathway to immediate and long-term revenue growth (and cash flow growth.)
The biggest waste of money in business is over-investing (or over-spending) on your existing business. Spending on incremental projects that really don’t have a good rate of return, when comparable spending on high growth opportunities will yield a much higher return. This course will help you identify where to stop spending, and where you can put your money to make more money.
Want to catch more fish? Then go where the fish are. But in business we tend to fish in the same watering hole, hoping the fish will come by. This course will help you identify where the fish are (where the opportunities are) so you quit using hope as a strategy and instead put your time and resources where they’ll be more productive.
Timing is everything. But do you go “all in” now, or wait? When is the right time to make big moves? Do you double your capacity now, or next year? This course shows you how to build a timeline toward the future so you know when to make your big investment decisions.
Customers will keep beating you up to do more, respond faster, give better service and all for a cheaper price. Meanwhile they’ll experiment with alternative solutions at the same time, and eventually drop your solution for an alternative while you’re knocking yourself out responding to their requests. You have to identify how you can meet customer needs with new solutions, not just react to their demands, and this course will tell you what transitions to make, and when. Don’t expect customers to tell you this, you have to do this planning on your own. But if you are quick to offer alternatives, you can be a lot more successful.
Who do you ask for advice for your business? This course will allow you to identify the kinds of information you need so you make better decisions, and don’t rely on somebody who could well be locked into old assumptions about how to do business – or old assumptions about you.
You know new technology is going to eventually cut into your margin, or even make you obsolete. But do you have a plan to know when to change from the old to the new? This course will build that plan so you don’t hang on to the old too long.
THINK Innovation
Master Class Bundle
Think Growth. Think Success. Think Innovation.
Expert Instruction - Direct guidance from certified course instructors.
Extensive Content - Over 25 lessons and 50 videos covering essential elements
Course Integration - Designed to help you apply learnings in the real-world
Real Engagement - Interact and discuss your business challenges for impact
Trends - Leveraging the latest trends in your market to create growth
Bonus! - Lifetime access to SparkCom Portal + SparkCom Group
Expert Masterclass: $1,997
* - financing and scholarships available
Enroll Now!
Need Help Or Have Questions?
If you have any questions about the course or need guidance please contact us today!
Check out these testimonials from innovators that have worked directly with Spark Partners!
Adam Hartung, author of Create Marketplace Disruption, was my guest speaker at a recent FEI Career Management Group Breakfast. Adam did an excellent job of enlightening the group on the concepts in his book, tying in current business events (eg. the GM Chapter 11 filing) and bringing topic relevance to the Finance executives in attendance. Adam conveyed his material with the authority one would expect from someone who had conducted extensive research but also with a sense of humor and engaging style that sparked many questions from the audience. Adam is the type of speaker who will make business leaders think differently about what they need to focus on and how to lead so they will have successful businesses not only today but in the future.
Ron Zoromski
Committee Member, FEI Career Management Group
It is rare that we have a speaker so engaging and so loaded with key insights that most people miss. We always pack the house when Adam speaks. He locks-in and fully engages the audience providing such relevant data that he has become a regular speaker for MENG (Marketing Executives Networking Group). Our attendees rave about Adams ability to deliver excellent content in a captivating and motivating way. I recommend Adam to anyone who wants a professional, polished speaker, who can read the audience and deliver exceptionally well!
Juli Bohm
Chapter Chair and Board Member, MENG Chicago
Adam Hartung presented to our University of Chicago Booth School of Business’ Consulting Roundtable (CRT). His presentation focused on how to galvanize our companies and clients — insights that are valuable in any economy and urgent in this one. Whether in a tough times or good, Adam’s insights are applicable — companies, and individuals, have to be adaptable. Adam’s presentation demonstrated what makes a company adaptable, able to manage through a downturn or market shift, and enlightened us with the surprising strategies and stories of those companies. Our audience was engaged, asked many questions and the presentation was energizing — so much so that when the session was officially over, 70% of the attendees stayed an extra hour of further discussion.
Rachel Patterson
University of Chicago
Just wanted to let you know that the Members and I enjoyed your presentation and found it to be insightful and impactful. We continue to discuss different aspects of your presentation and, in particular, use your “locked-in” concept… especially during these times.
Gregory C. Vrablik
The President's Forum
Your recent presentation to The Association for Corporate Growth CEO group was remarkable. The feedback we got from the leaders who attended was outstanding. Your researched based concepts and real world work experience challenged our members to create new success formulas for their business. I’m confident that the practical ideas you shared will be the foundation of new innovation and profitable growth for years to come. I look forward to having you come back and share more thoughts on how leaders can create significant breakthroughs in performance.
Bill Durkin
Vice Chair, Corporate Network, The Association for Corporate Growth
Adam, THANK YOU! The compliments just keep on rolling in about your presentation to our Members and guests. YOU WERE TERRIFIC and we really appreciate your time and insights!
Sandy Weissent
University of Chicago CEO Roundtable
Adam Hartung, author of Create Marketplace Disruption, was my guest speaker at a recent FEI Career Management Group Breakfast. Adam did an excellent job of enlightening the group on the concepts in his book, tying in current business events (eg. the GM Chapter 11 filing) and bringing topic relevance to the Finance executives in attendance. Adam conveyed his material with the authority one would expect from someone who had conducted extensive research but also with a sense of humor and engaging style that sparked many questions from the audience. Adam is the type of speaker who will make business leaders think differently about what they need to focus on and how to lead so they will have successful businesses not only today but in the future.
Robert H. Ecker
Committee Member, FEI Career Management Group
Adam presented practical, actionable viewpoints to our management team. Using a combination of examples and specific to-dos, he explained how we can avoid a lock-in mindset that has resulted in the downfall of many a company! His engaging style made it easy for our team to internalize the concepts.
Sudhakar Ramakrishna
Corporate VP, Home — Networks Mobility, Motorola, Inc.
First, let me recommend you strongly consider Adam Hartung’s presentation. It was very well received and valued by my two audiences – all 5s out of 5. I believe that Adam’s presentation couldn’t come at a more opportune time. The challenging of some of our strongly held paradigms and “sacred cows” may end up being just the breakthrough some need. You want to get this man, Adam Hartung in front of your groups and engage with them in some fierce conversations.
John N. Younker, Ph.D.
Associate in Continuous Improvement, Vistage Chair
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! Excellent job at the FSA Spring Meeting in Savannah, Georgia. Many members came up to me and indicated you were one of the best speakers we have had at any of our meetings. Your topic was very timely and helps all of us clarify the direction we are headed as a trade association. I am so pleased we were able to get you in to talk at this event.
William V. Adams
New Business Development, Corporate Marketing, Flowserve Corporation
After seeing Adam speak at a very well-attended ACG meeting, I asked him if he would like to speak at one of our events on the spot. As the incoming President for the 2 year old Chicago Chapter of the Association for Strategic Planning, I wanted to bring in a high-impact speaker to give our members and prospective members a clear sense of the quality of value that we provide as an organization and to draw others to attend. Adam was thoroughly knowledgeable, entertaining, but best of all, very insightful and provocative – I had many people thank us for having him present and I believe it helps our image and growth plans.
Rick Kaufmann
Vice President, Middle Market Commercial Banking, Charter One Bank
THINK Innovation
Master Class Bundle
Think Growth. Think Success. Think Innovation.
Expert Instruction - Direct guidance from certified course instructors.
Extensive Content - Over 25 lessons and 50 videos covering essential elements
Course Integration - Designed to help you apply learnings in the real-world
Real Engagement - Interact and discuss your business challenges for impact
Trends - Leveraging the latest trends in your market to create growth
Bonus! - Lifetime access to SparkCom Portal + SparkCom Group
Expert Masterclass: $1,997
* - financing and scholarships available
Enroll Now!
Need Help Or Have Questions?
If you have any questions about the course or need guidance please contact us today!