New Product Development Workshops

Stuck with a few ideas for new products or services?

You have a number of new ideas but you are not sure what should be the order of priority or in what order to introduce them?

The Rainmaker team have run a number of workshops that have tested and created new ideas for product and service innovation

We’ve facilitated a workshop between a client and their major customer
- Between them they generated 20 new “low-cost to implement” ideas that would improve the products performance in the eyes of the client

We’ve extensively planned and facilitated a customer / stakeholder workshop based on Knowledge Café Principles
- It revealed why a new product had not been as successful as anticipated
- It also came up with a series of actions to get it back on track.

We’ve also facilitated an internal team planning a major investment in a Data-Centre used by its clients.
- Generating suggestions to improve usability from a selling viewpoint
- Additional low cost ideas but of high value to clients using the datacentre frequently

If you have a need to pull together teams of people and generate a creative buzz and generate new ideas then this workshop is for you.

If it’s a straight forward , 1-day Strategy Planning Session during the week (not weekends)
There is a little phone / email based briefing to be done
A facilitator for the 1 day workshop , all materials , all planning and prep, travel to and from the venue
Then a good “ball-park” figure is £1,750 + VAT including everything
If you need us to help you construct a Knowledge Café or World Café with lots of people
Multiple stakeholders with different interests involved
Different clean questions and group and plenary sessions
May be a face to face briefing and lots of pre-planning then a good range is £3k to £7.5K
Call us , Discuss your needs and we’ll give you a fixed price quotation in half a day .

External Board of Directors of Equality and Human Rights Commission
- A variety of topics in a 1 day a month sequence
Department of Health Senior Leadership Team
- Running a Knowledge Cafe style workshop with the topic of
- “Responsible Drinking for London”
- Medical Professions, Politicians, Charities etc
Kuoni A Multi-National Travel Company
- A New Leader with an existing team
- Agreeing a New Vision and New Approach
Strategic Planning workshops for Microsoft Services in the UK.
- First workshop had 32 people in it, the next one 45 and the next 64 people
- All rated as hugely successful by the teams.
High impact scenario workshops for BP ( Castrol division)
A weekend based strategy planning workshop for a fast growing IT Services business NETSTAR
A European team member workshop for a new Director in Kuoni
An Operations team strategy and performance improvement workshop for Concrete an IT Platform company
Strategic Planning for ALL of the people in a small software company. Caresys
Strategic Planning for VISA Europe’s Central European Team
Workshops for the managers in a fast growing Homecare company Abicare
Process Improvement Workshops for a Printing company CPI BOOKS
Workshop and Business Planning with 15 Subsidiary M.D.s for VINCI ENERGIES
1. Second Series with subsets of VINCI businesses