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Through our approach, leaders can learn to tap innovation, breaking down the conventional barriers that separate them from others. Tapping innovation leads to a single intelligence between themselves and their teams, whether in business, government or civil society.

Generon International’s U-Process for Discovery captures and refines the method by which latent possibility is released. Transformational breakthroughs in any field can occur as well as the creation of knowledge that changes the world as we see and know it to be. The Process used by Generon International is a means for discovering the solutions to the most complex problems using a combination of scientific logic and intuition each of which is indispensable to the other.

Outlined below are the Four Stages of implementing our U-Process of Discovery, we’ve included links to a deeper explanation of each one of the four steps.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. — Albert Einstein

Outlined below are Generon’s key areas of focus.

1. Complex Problem Solving

Advanced Decision-Making and Strategy Formation
Uncertainty and unpredictability are the central reality of our time. Leaders have no alternative but to act continuously into the unknown, often operating under obsolete assumptions and inner mental models of which they may no longer be aware. Generon International’s process of Generative Discovery is a powerful tool to help leaders move into Advanced Decision-Making within highly complex and dynamic environments.
Generative Discovery can also be used to set a fundamental new direction for an enterprise, or to sharpen and focus an existing strategy. Applying the U-Process for Discovery enables leaders and their teams to guide an enterprise toward discovering and creating their optimal future.
more on: >> Complex Problem Solving

2. Innovation

Generon International’s process of Generative Discovery achieves innovative breakthroughs, delivering a powerful competitive advantage:

Extending the range or quality of existing products or services offered;
Developing entirely new products or services, often to meet rapidly changing customer or consumer needs; or
Adding value to existing products, services or markets to differentiate the enterprise and significantly increase value for customers and markets.

Generative Communities

Our process is used to establish enterprise-wide communities. These teams operate according to a philosophy grounded in the following primary dimensions:

A deep sense of purpose;
High alignment around that purpose;
Open, honest, spontaneous communication; and
Persistent focus on goals, values and guiding principles that bind the community together, enabling it to act as a single intelligence.

more on: >> Innovation

3. Enhanced Performance

Enhanced Human Performance and Operational Excellence
No enterprise can change if its people cannot absorb change. Generon International’s process of Generative Discovery can be used to enhance human performance enterprise-wide by creating a culture where learning and discovery within communities are part of every person’s role, from the assistants to the executives, from the line workers to the CEO.

Operating Philosophy

At the operations level, a worldview is converted into an operating philosophy. It is the fundamental driver of enhanced human performance, operational excellence and knowledge creation.Through Generative Discovery, all members of an enterprise develop the ability to mobilize and convert their intuition into explicit knowledge used in the day-to-day operational activities of their enterprise. Generative communities are formed spontaneously at every level of the enterprise. Innovation is encouraged in any daily task. How can I do my work better? What other work can I do? Every individual will discover the answer to these questions for themselves through our Process of teaching and learning. more on: >> Enhanced Performance

4. Fundamental Renewal

Fundamental Organizational Renewal
“Every individual, organization or society must mature, but much depends on how this maturing takes place. A society who’s maturing consists simply of acquiring more firmly established ways of doing things is headed for the graveyard – even if it learns to do these things with greater and greater skills.” – John W. Gardner

The Two Phases of Fundamental Organizational Renewal

Discovery Phase

The Board, CEO and leadership identify a sample “adaptive problem” the enterprise faces.
A generative community is specifically formed to solve the adaptive problem.

Implementation Phase

Focus on the growth of the senior team and a critical mass of change leaders to demonstrate commitment and trigger multiplier effects.
Refine and reaffirm the organization’s guiding ideas and basic assumptions.
Align the enterprise around a sense of universal purpose and direction.
Magnify the positive attitudes, behaviors and practices that already exist.
Cascade opportunities for personal transformation throughout the organization.
Practice developmental scaffolding, using the whole institution as a vehicle for developmental growth.

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