A new way of working. A new way of achieving personal success

Your career path may change, but your unique contribution still matters

The way we work has changed dramatically. Although many people have returned to working in offices, others continue to work remotely. Either way, the world needs your innovative ideas. No matter what type of work you do, your success depends on how effectively you:

  • solve problems
  • make decisions
  • deal with change
  • collaborate to achieve results

 Navigator Journals are analog innovations. They combine an innovative note page design with insightful editorial pages crafted to offer new skills, processes, and tools to help you reach higher levels of personal and professional success. Six themes are woven into the editorial pages.   

Sharing the Vision – by Ed Bernacki

After numerous online meetings during the pandemic, I felt frustrated. I wanted a new way to stay focused and capture ideas. I wondered if others felt the same. With the Idea Factory, I created successful idea journals. I used this experience to design a journal for the future of work:

  • An inspiring journal focused on challenges and opportunities.
  • A creative journal that distills important perspectives for innovative solutions.
  • An idea journal to capture insights, ideas, and actions.

Over twenty years, through writing, teaching, consulting, and speaking on innovation and creativity, the Idea Factory developed a keen sense of what helps people solve their challenges. From this experience, the editorial pages were conceived. Ed developed his expertise living and working in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.  He spoke at many conferences in Asia and the USA. The Idea Factory team continues to invent journals based on years of successful innovation.  

More than time management: idea management  

Time management helps some people structure their day. It also fails others who work in a different way. They know tomorrow’s big innovations start with today’s small ideas. They need a way to manage their ideas. Idea management is the “X” factor that will help you tackle future challenges. Some principles:     

  • Ideas fuel our energy to solve our challenges and opportunities.
  • Ideas need to be managed into results.  
  • We can develop our skills to innovate.
  • We can define challenges, problems, or projects to advance our careers.    
  • We must turn insights into opportunities, ready for action.

Is digital better than analog?

Using journals in a digital world is not old-fashioned but, in fact, a smart move. We should ask: is digital or analog more effective for the task we are working on?

The future of work requires a form of bilingualism; to speak and work with digital and analog tools. Both need to be innovative.

Spiral-bound Navigators offer the classic feel of a notebook. It opens flat and is comfortable to use on a desk or on your lap. Use a copy for your personal projects and one for your current career.  The spiral-bound notebook is available for immediate delivery. A hardcover version is in production and will be available in 2023.

Helping people bridge inspiration and execution

Navigators were invented with Inc. Magazine. Its Editor questioned Inc.’s business conferences. He said too many people take notes and never look at them again. We saw that most people used the hotel notepad.

Our idea was a journal that combined note pages with content on listening, taking notes, and creating ideas. Inc. loved the idea. Later it found 82% of users said it helped them get more value from Inc. conferences. George Gendron, then Editor-in-Chief said:

“In the past 10 years, we’ve moved from a period where there were simply too few new original ideas about managing and leading our PIX organizations, to where there are too many. As we’ve said in Inc. Magazine many times before, this is the age of execution. From this perspective, the Navigator is an idea whose time, has come, helping people bridge the crucial gap between inspiration and execution."