Lee & Joeri (Yuri) – the back story
Innovate Wisely™ is a Business Innovation Consultancy that nurtures effective teams within corporate and public sector organisations to facilitate innovation that delivers superior results.
Lee Foster
Innovate Wisely™ is founded and operated by Lee Foster, PHD, and follows Lee’s 30+ years of experience as a practicing engineer and academic researcher in business management and innovation.
Lee brings expertise in facilitating innovation in engineering, supported by academic credentials that include a Masters in Engineering and a Master’s in business management and Innovation by research.
Innovate Wisely™ is driven by Lee’s passion to create a better, more sustainable world, by empowering organisations to achieve innovative solutions to global problems.
With a vision to work with organisations to facilitate meaningful change, Lee is dedicating the next stage of her career to supporting organisations to innovate wisely with proven strategies that achieve meaningful impact.
Joeri Timmermans
To achieve this, Lee has partnered with Joeri (Yuri) Timmermans, also an Engineer with post-graduate qualifications and decades of experience in fostering innovation in IT Systems engineering and project management.
InnoWise™
Through these experiences and qualifications, Lee and Joeri present clients with a unique and proven business improvement model, InnoWise™.
The core of the InnoWise™ program is unlocking the power of trust to build effective teams to power the momentum and energy required to push innovation and change into full realisation.
InnoWise™ is a blueprint for ‘re-wiring” organisations wishing to create trust within stakeholders to achieve better project management outcomes and large-scale impact.
InnoWise™ is a knowledge-based framework designed to help managers of innovative initiatives, plan, strategise and manage with knowledge in mind. The program provides a systematic and comprehensive, easy to use process to build effective teams and implement your ideas.
It includes regular project health checks using behavioural based metrics, provides ‘early warning’ system for your initiative, allowing managers to reflect and adjust before time and money is wasted.
The program consists of three core programs that create:
Innovate Wisely™
Lee has founded Innovate Wisely™ and delivers InnoWise™ based programs to address the staggering concern that only 1% of digital transformations meet expectations, less than 20% of organisation manage knowledge well and 95% of product innovations fail.
Together with Joeri, Lee provides organisations with the capabilities to harness the power of new knowledge and trust to secure the confidence that their innovation goals will succeed.
Innovate Wisely™ partners with CEO’s, Directors, and innovation leaders looking for predictable, sustainable systems to translate innovate ideas into viable outcomes that create IMPACT.
The program consists of a series of masterclasses and workshops that take your team to the next level of success by being effective at solving complex problems and succeeding in their innovation goals.