What People Say

Neogen is a 30 year old company but the idea of a PMO is a new concept. Bringing in The Innovation Garage to help us set the foundation was just what we needed. By working with us for three months we went from the concept phase through the crawl phase and are now walking on our own. The tools and processes we learned are now being used not only in the PMO but in other areas throughout the company as well. Thanks Innovation Garage for setting us up for future success!

Great balance of letting us talk and keeping us on track – I’m sure that is difficult! Learning lots and feeling inspired and empowered!

I can’t recommend the Innovation Garage enough to an organization that is open to the idea of deep self exploration, is willing to make significant changes in how the team approaches problems and potentially WHO they want to carry forward through the process. The discovery process and the journey through the learning experience provided a template for the group going forward and we are still bearing fruit every day from the collaborative, learning approach that has been brought to our organization.Sc

The Innovation Garage team  made every individual feel valued and important and allowed them to take ownership of the process. Looking back I am amazed at the changes in the organization from the top down that took place as the team learned, grew stronger, and realized who was the correct fit for where we wanted to go. Some changes were painful but like exercise there is always that period of soreness as you push yourself to the limits of where you want to go. The approach to teaching, coaching, and the level of hands on work and learning  was not a one-size fits all approach. The team spent an enormous amount of time learning about the org, the people, the processes, and our collective goals BEFORE providing guidance.

It is difficult to describe the breadth of the learning that occurred over the past 2 years or more. The Innovation Garage teams skills and leadership inspired a significant change in how the organization thought about process, product development, teamwork, supply chain, operations and problem solving. The progress made was tangible and produced a sea-change in the culture and performance of the organization.

The result was to help spur a direct and clear increase in idea quantity during the first 2 days of the CREATE session earlier this week. The CREATE innovation team generated 160 Yellow Cards (ideas), nearly 40% more than past projects. With Innovation Systems, Creativity and Execution, quantity breeds quality; so… we saw that play out as we ended up with six ideas that were unique enough to go right into the “fail-fast, fail-cheap” weekly project meetings, where we seek to move those ideas to a “go” for product development within ~8 weeks.

Thank you for continuing to drive value across our entire organization!

Class was very educational. Appreciate the pace and the ability to stray from topic to focus on applications for our business!

You’ve grown our innovation pipeline and done in four days what normally takes us six months to do!

We’re glad you’re here… You give us hope for our future!

From The Innovation Garage®, we learned many valuable tools that we have applied to our project management office. The Innovation Garage helped us define a strategy to implement a PMO within our organization.

It’s been great working with Jon Washington and the The Innovation Garage® over the years. Highly recommend!

The Innovation Garage was a good resource for us to set up the framework for our PMO Project.

The 90 Day workshop series was very helpful in helping our Company lay down the foundations for an enterprise PMO. Very pleased with the outcome!

Jon and Mike made the class very educational and fun. The learning atmosphere was relaxed stress free. A lot of information in a short time but a lot of understanding by the participants. All were able to garner information that is usable on a day to day basis. The information was presented in a very informal way but yet was very structured. You could see the light bulb come on for the attendees as they related topics to the daily “grind.”

This course presented a lot of great information and techniques for stimulating innovation, and it was presented in a lively manner.