For businesses who want:

• creative solutions

• value added outcomes

• positive change

Who we are

Rural Solutions SA is a key business unit within Primary Industries and Resources South Australia, value-adding services in primary industries, agribusiness, education and training, natural resource management and rural community development.

Rural Solutions SA is the only licensed deliverer of the innovation works™ framework in South Australia and provides a range of services to support and develop innovation within businesses.

innovation works™

• Delivers a 4 stage proprietary framework to achieve business innovation
• Identification - Identify priority areas for innovation improvements within your organisations
• Education Training - Empower and skill your workforce to behave innovatively
• Leadership - Empower managers to foster innovation within teams
• Integration - Embed and support innovation within your organisation as a holistic business approach

innovation works™ delivers benefits:

• Greater diversity of products and services or value adding of current products and services
• Identification of potential business effi ciencies leading to cost savings
• Increased sustainability of your business by maintaining relevance to your customers
• Staff motivation - greater ownership of new ideas and initiatives by staff
• Development of a culture that can be more responsive to change

innovation works™ delivers outcomes:

• A stocktake of business readiness for innovation
• A series of practical tools that have been thoroughly researched and tested
• A framework that can deliver outcomes at all levels of the business
• Comprehensive approach to developing an innovative culture within your
organisation
• An easy to use framework with a straightforward process to follow

Business leaders say:

“In a world of accelerating change innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance”
Prof Gary Hamel

“Current research on organisational innovation and adaptation has indicated that organisations without the necessary tools in place to change with operational environment fail”
USA Defence

“When the rate of change inside an institution becomes slower than the rate of change outside, the end is in sight. The only question is when”
Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric

Practitioners of innovation works™:

“I now have some tools to help me develop new ideas and products. I have always thought of myself as slightly innovative but your workshop has given me a more formal process to use when going through the innovation process.”
Robin (Seafood Industry)

“A framework that allows you to explore the absolute boundaries of all number of ideas, how best to take these ideas and maybe change the world or at least our own patch for the betterment of all”
Pam (Riverland Health)

“A great insight into making decisions surrounding innovative ideas on an individual, group or team level”
Virginia Horticultural Centre

Contact David Hubbard or Keren Sutton info@ruralsolutions.sa.gov.au or phone 1300 364 322 www.ruralsolutions.sa.gov.au