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How do you find ways to best describe and articulate your innovation challenges So what are your innovation management challenges? How can we help you? Let us offer you a ‘classifier’ of the type of challenges we most often come across Why don’t you rank your top five that you see as having the greatest interest to talk to someone about? What are your Innovation Management Challenges? Please give either a ranking or grouping indication of 5 areas that would … Continue reading “Articulating the innovation challenges you have”

Building a Toolbox Today we are still stuck with the traditional strategic models and they are inadeguate to do the fast changing jobs of today and tomorrow. We still rely on the analysis of the business on increasingly ‘dated’ tools and methods for today’s business purpose and climate. We are still far too comfortable and reliant on using models that were built for a different era, most still from the last century. Many of these older tools tend to lead … Continue reading “Building the innovators toolbox”

Root Causes of Innovation Failure So what are root causes of poor innovation performance? Following a series of surveys by BCG ( www.bcg.com ) a few years back, they argued there was a clear emerging need to resolve specific ‘weaknesses’ in the innovation practices of clients that are impacting the ROI and driving down innovation performance. How can you fix the root causes of these? We have some clear thoughts and would be happy to discuss these with you. Here are … Continue reading “Recognizing Root Cause of Innovation Failure”

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”