People. Process. Platform.
Build an innovation system.
Give your people the processes and platform they need to deliver innovation that matters.
Organizations invest in systems to keep their now operations running smoothly. Yet, the same level of investment and discipline is rarely applied to innovation.
To achieve innovation productivity and create new forms of capital, you must commit to a disciplined system of innovation.
People
Skilled innovators know how to innovate the right way.
Equip your innovation executives, managers, and teams with the same knowledge, language, frameworks, tools, and skills so they can work in concert.
Create new opportunities and career paths for your innovation talent (who might otherwise leave).
Increase unity and collaboration between the people operating your now and those inventing your next.
Process
Standard processes scale innovation productivity.
Provide a consistent model of innovation governance and advocacy across your organization.
Establish repeatable and scalable innovation practices and processes.
Produce data that reduces uncertainty, creates greater confidence, and enables intelligent decision-making.
Reduce risk to—and new ways to grow—human, intellectual, political, reputational, social, and financial capital via portfolio management and discovery-driven development.
Optimize capital investment.
Enable the discovery and validation of new performance, growth, and value creation opportunities—and stop those that aren’t viable.
Platform
Shared tools enable breakthrough collaboration.
Implement standard frameworks to organize innovation strategy and execution.
Deliver content that guides strategic decisions, provides examples and supports innovation activity.
Provide standard tools to frame challenges, identify opportunities, manage portfolios, collaborate, develop solutions, test, implement, and hand-off to the operate.
Step 1.
Assess.
Assess the current state of your innovation readiness and establish benchmarks with which to measure your progress.
Step 2.
Focus.
Use the results from your Innovation Readiness Assessment identify improvement that will produce the greatest benefit.
Step 3.
Equip.
Arm your executives, managers, and teams with the knowledge, language, frameworks, tools, and skills they need to create, evaluate, and invest (or divest) in innovation that drives performance, growth, and renewal.
Step 4.
Plan.
Develop an Innovation Playbook to align your goals, strategies, opportunity portfolios, resources, and actions.
Step 5.
Execute.
Use weekly coaching sessions to keep your team on track—and your playbook up to date—as they build and operate your innovation system.