Agility and Innovation = Growth and Impact

What’s sits in the CIO’s Role? What makes up the Chief Innovation Officers agenda? The setting of the principal innovation officer’s agenda is critical. This checklist provides the platform to build from. Interested to hear our views more on this? I believe we have the ‘content’ that fills this out from an agenda into a activity and action orientated building process. We conduct this in a mentoring, advising stance so it is paced to the person and the unique challenges … Continue reading “Defining the CIO’s role”

The building always the Innovation Business Case offers a unique approach to tackle one of the real problem areas within innovation- making the case compelling. One of the toughest aspects within Innovation is making the Business Case. Much of the information is imperfect, the returns are often fuzzy and the doubters ready to block and deter new ideas from entering the commercialization process. Knowing the issues, reducing often the ‘noise and distractions’ and making the professional case is what we … Continue reading “Building the Innovation Business Case”

Examination Mapping gives different perspectives vital to the innovator to appreciate and map the value aspects of those expectations. So getting to know the health of anything usually requires some rigorous examination and the potential within the new innovation concept needs some evaluating. It is no different for understanding your innovation fitness. We explore fitness in many ways and some of these approaches are unique, exciting and ‘dynamic’. Any examination needs to follow a ‘routine’ methodical check up. In our … Continue reading “Examination Mapping”

The Jobs-to-be-Done There are many jobs-to-be-done when you begin to work through innovation. It is knowing which ones have the real value in them To build and sustain innovation you need to think through many. Here we provide a handy reference to what and where we need to seek out innovation and for each of these we have specific solutions, frameworks or approaches. Building innovation capabilities: evaluating and accessing the company’s innovation capabilities, working through the culture, climate and environment … Continue reading “Jobs-to-be-done”

Seeing beyond the current horizon  Thinking in different horizons prompts you to go beyond the usual focus of fixing innovation just in the present. The Three Horizons Methodology connects the present with the desired future and identifies the ‘seen’ disruptions which might occur in moving towards a vision. This first emerged in the late nineties through the work of Baghai, Coley and White (1999) and has been further developed by a range of practitioners such as Andrew Curry, Anthony Hodgson … Continue reading “The Three Horizon Methodology”

By exploring and modelling the mutual dependencies you get to see how the existing and alternative future innovation system will behave as you begin to map out and recognize the different emphasis points that make up your innovation system. You can begin to identify what are the more important dynamic ones that require a more dedicated focus and placing more of your resources behind, while others can evolve at their own pace or simply improve as they are far more … Continue reading “Mapping Fitness Landscape Dynamics”

The approach we take to embedding innovation in all its forms is a unique one that we have called the Innovation Pathway Curve: We take you through FIVE of these curves in learning and exploring: Overcoming the different stages within the obstacle curves Building the necessary capability and capacity curves Developing the growth building steps within the curves Exploring the organizational impact understanding Delivering the discovery & transformation needed. Our methodology takes you through a structured approach, a way of … Continue reading “Managing Along the Pathway Curves”

Leadership Alignment Work Mat for Innovation to be fully connected. The Leadership Alignment Workmat provides a unique examination of the executive’s role in innovation. This offers a framework that the leadership of the organization can adopt to ensure linkages and synergies between strategy and innovation, innovation and capabilities, innovation and culture. Often they lack the communicating medium to help clarify and shape the innovation story to tell, so as to provide the guidance necessary for achieving that essential engagement and encouragement … Continue reading “Leadership Alignment Work Mat for Innovation”

Sustaining an innovation competitive advantage- a unique formula Sustaining innovation is made up of critical components that bring intensity and return to your investment and provide you the framework to build a sustaining advantage on innovation others will find hard to imitate. So what is this framework? SCA = II + EE + MLC + OC + RNE- its power comes from innovation intensity. Sustainable Competitive Advantage (SCA) comes from the combining effects of the following: II = Innovation Intensity – its degree … Continue reading “Achieving Real Intensity of Purpose”

 Everything we want to do is 100% focused on innovating!  Bringing agility, flexibility, adaptability and learning into the innovation equation We provide the pathways to your future innovation growth through four critical focal points of any necessary value creation: 1) working through alternative thinking and exploration, mostly using the three horizons framing, to structure your future innovation activity. 2) developing and deepening your innovation capital, making it more dynamic and responsive, higher in learning values and knowledge discovery & transformation. … Continue reading “Agility Innovations Value Positioning”