Problem Solving
Done Deliberately

Problem solving workshops that are designed for forward thinking leaders who need help solving their most unsolvable challenges.

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Traditional workshops produce traditional solutions

If you’ve grown frustrated by traditional problem solving workshops that use the same old, familiar approaches and produce the same old ideas, the Deliberate approach is for you.

Our Deliberate Way of problem solving is super interactive, smartly designed AND generates hundreds of non-obvious ideas and actionable solutions that are ready for your team to execute. We do it by combining exceptional facilitation together with cutting-edge design thinking and behavioral science techniques.

To learn more about our workshops and design thinking consulting services, contact us.

The Deliberate Way of Problem Solving

At the heart of our creative problem solving workshop is the notion that “Somewhere, Someone Has Solved Your Problem Before”. Our approach systematically identifies inspiring ideas from far outside your everyday business. By applying those inspiring outside ideas to your business challenges, we break the traditional patterns of thinking and generate winning solutions.

Understand

Define and validate the “right” problem that captures the underlying tension or pain point(s) of your specific challenge.

Inspiration

Generate a wide array of useful metaphors, crowdsourced from both our Deliberate Innovator network and your participants

Research

Conduct research to translate the metaphors into actionable use cases and creative prompts.

Application

Apply the use cases and creative prompts to your specific challenge in order to accelerate problem solving and generate non-obvious solutions.

Our 3 Deliberate Ingredients in Every Engagement

We listen to your wishes and needs so we can customize the problem solving workshop for your team. The one thing that we keep consistent across every engagement is that we bring deep experience, energy and enthusiasm to inspire you.

Science Based Techniques

We integrate design thinking, behavioral science and game mechanics into your event to make it inspiring, purposeful and productive.

Engineered Diversity
of Thought

We bring together external subject matter experts and creative problem solvers to participate in your event and help you to think differently.

High Energy & Boundless Enthusiasm

We believe that your event experience should be fun! We create an inspiring and positive atmosphere that will energize your team and your participants. Attitude determines outcomes!

Real stories from clients who have experienced Deliberate Problem Solving Workshops

Novel Market Access
Strategies

A leading pharmaceutical company was preparing to launch a novel therapy. But access and reimbursement looked bleak. Deliberate worked with them to identify alternative financing strategies and novel ways of providing access.

Brand Planning and
Customer Solutions

A cross-functional team needed to develop "Out of the Box" solutions for their mature brand. Deliberate worked with them to identify and develop a set of non-traditional ways of maintaining value in a market with many competing substitutes and generic alternatives.

Novel Market Access
Strategies

A leading health plan was struggling to produce breakthrough ideas that could be incorporated into their strategic planning. Deliberate guided them through a workshop that leveraged play and gamification to produce several “big” ideas.

You’re in good company

We specialize in working with highly regulated organizations that have a need to THINK creatively and ACT decisively. Our design thinking consulting clients span more than a dozen regulated industries.

What Does a Deliberate Engagement Look Like?

Our Five Step Approach is designed to systematically guide your team from problem to executable solutions

The Challenge Map

Learn how

The first part of the engagement is to strategically map your workshop challenge so that you can focus on the “right” question to solve in the workshop.

We further validate the challenge with internal and external stakeholders to ensure we are solving for the “right” problem

The Design

Learn how

We focus on event strategy, design and developing content that increases your chances of producing winning solutions.

The design will signal to your participants that this isn’t “business as usual”

The Research

Learn how

We engage a curated group of creative thinkers and problem solvers – from our Deliberate Innovator Network and your team – to spark a set of metaphors (i.e. use cases) to help you generate those non-obvious ideas in the workshop

The Workshop

Learn how

We design and facilitate a live series of sessions that push your team to think differently and develop novel concepts

Our methods encourage candid discussions, creative ideation and ultimately helps to spark insights that you would never have realized when following the traditional approach.

The Execution

Learn how

Our team captures, analyzes and reports every idea, insight and action step.
And we provide an actionable report and database of ideas that enables ongoing development.

Most importantly, our team sticks around. We are there to help, coach, advise and help you execute.

My Deliberate Promise to You

I know what it’s like to spends hours in poorly designed offsites, workshops and events. They are mentally exhausting and in the end you have little to show for the time commitment and effort.

My promise to you is that you will be exhilarated by the Deliberate Experience and walk away with tangible outputs and business value. Here’s why:

We make it a personal commitment to see you succeed
We bring the latest in behavioral science and technology
We’ve designed and led 1,000+ workshops and events

Be deliberate with your next workshop

Let’s geek out over a challenge or opportunity you might be facing. Just one practitioner talking to another practitioner. At the very least you walk away with things you shouldn’t do :- )

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Relevant thought leadership

Embrace the Constraint!

Creativity is often associated with free-thinking, blue sky possibilities and no limitations.

Reducing Information Overload by Simplifying

“We are compelled to think of all things at the same time... preventing the appropriate amount of attention

In Search of Novelty: The Deliberate Use of Metaphors

Now, more than ever, large organizations are trying to keep pace with nimble&

Embrace the Constraint!

Creativity is often associated with free-thinking, blue sky possibilities and no limitations..

Problem Solving Done Deliberately

Traditional workshops produce traditional solutions

The Deliberate Way of Problem Solving

Understand

Inspiration

Research

Application

Our 3 Deliberate Ingredients in Every Engagement

Science Based Techniques

Engineered Diversity of Thought

High Energy & Boundless Enthusiasm

Real stories from clients who have experienced Deliberate Problem Solving Workshops

Novel Market Access Strategies

Brand Planning and Customer Solutions

Novel Market Access Strategies

You’re in good company

What Does a Deliberate Engagement Look Like?

The Challenge Map

The Design

The Research

The Workshop

The Execution

My Deliberate Promise to You

Be deliberate with your next workshop

Relevant thought leadership

Embrace the Constraint!

Reducing Information Overload by Simplifying

In Search of Novelty: The Deliberate Use of Metaphors

Embrace the Constraint!

Problem Solving
Done Deliberately

Engineered Diversity
of Thought

Novel Market Access
Strategies

Brand Planning and
Customer Solutions

Novel Market Access
Strategies