Innovation Solutions
Sharp Innovation Solutions Inc. delivers business value by focussing on helping you be successful with your business needs. This is done by introducing change through innovation in training, process, and technology.
Applying more than 25 years experience in project management applied to new product introduction, a multidisciplinary approach is taken that combines expertise in product management, project management, security management, and information, communication, and computing technologies.
Sharp Innovation Solutions specializes in innovation and change management applied to the following management topics:
- Project Management
- Coaching
- Communications planning and implementation
- E-learning
- Online Group meeting facilitation
- Information management
- Information security
- Information systems selection
- Management information systems
- Management training
- Policies and procedures
The following are solution category specialities.
Writing
This category is mostly about computer text entry, editing, and processing until other technologies like digital pens and voice dictation become more mainstream. With skills and knowledge in items like developing text editor muscle memory, keyboard shortcuts, snippet management, and document templates, writing productivity can be substantially enhanced.
Publishing
The Internet has enabled a revolution in personal and business publishing. Interactive web sites, blogging, twittering, ebooks, social networking, are all forms of personal publishing that establish your reputation online.
Scheduling
Managing a calendar and time commitments well is not as easy as it might appear at first but it is a fundamental skill where good habits can pay huge dividends. Like many other solutions scheduling involves establishing a system and processes that support your priorities and values.
GTD
Getting Things Done has myriad different tools and approaches with also many different distractions all vying for our attention. Techniques for focussing, simplifying, prioritizing, and establishing routines for reliable results are important success factors.
Database
Databases can work magic to organize data and a good starting point is a personal Address Book and business directory. Scanners and online forms can reduce and streamline paperwork to support automated workflows. Databases are a core capability in establishing business and personal systems.
Calling
Connections are vital in personal and business life. We need to be available and to be able to reach our important contacts but also to protect our attention from disruptive interruptions. To reach our objectives we need to use communications tools to best advantage.
Meeting
Nothing beats being there in person for certain types of meetings but for many meetings multimedia remote access can do a high quality job while saving time and money. There is a wide range of web conferencing products available from free to very expensive managed services or dedicated systems. Feature sets can vary from product to product but a key factor in their effectiveness is knowing what features match your objectives and having the skills for organizing and running remote meetings for different types of audiences.
Presenting
There are more online channels than ever before for sharing presentations, videos, speeches, podcasts, and everything in between to get your message out. These tools have become accessible to everyone and the critical success factors are knowing how to use them and finding the right audience.
iPhone and iPad
The iPhone and other smartphones are no longer just cellphones, they are always online personal digital assistants that let you be productive, connected, located, and entertained in those in between times when you are not at the office or your desk. Amazing advances have been made with these portable computers. Screen and input limitations make them more suitable for certain categories of tasks but this is expanding with new types of computers like the iPad.