Innovation Management Services
- high level overview and typical use -

Envisioning new business models & Strategic Planning

• Review the strengths that can generate new business through function and attribute analysis.
• S-curve analysis will be performed to assess the current growth phase for your company as well as its main sub-systems. We’ll identify short term actions, future risks and the strategies to avoid them from a systematic innovation point of view.
• Benchmark your company against common trends of evolution and identify areas of growth related to customers, interactions, competencies, organization, processes, complexity etc…

Business alignment (innovation for what you need & when you need it)

• We will put in place a systematic process for solving problems and generating good ideas and breakthrough innovation, so creative resources in your company will be used in a predictable, result oriented mode and will be focused on actual business issue that need to be addressed in priority
• Through optimization of internal communication, direction set by senior executive will benefit from support and feedback from people at all levels in the company

Opportunities discovery & exploiting untapped business growth potential

• Analysis of your evolutionary potential (at company and department level) will identify the directions in which your business is most likely to evolve and the associated opportunities
• Recognize short term opportunities (“Rembrandts in the attic”) or become the new, disruptive element in emerging markets you create or reshape - all through a methodical process that maximizes your chances for success

Sustainable growth

• Innovation is one of most important sources for sustainable business growth. No matter if you look at this from a financial or environmental point of view, a solid foundation for effectively applying innovation in business can make the difference between failure and long-term success.
• Creativity as a skill, the right organizational structures, leadership and management styles that encourage innovation will create the foundation of an organization that is re-inventing itself on ongoing basis, in a smooth and natural way; an organization that creates opportunities, shapes markets and adapts with agility to a better future it actively creates.

Reduce risks associated with change

• Avoid negative impact of change through function and attribute examination, cause and effect mapping and downward spiral analysis.
• The process we propose incorporates analysis of technical, process as well as intangible factors like personal relationships, egos, branding, knowledge transfer etc…
• Good initiatives are often abandoned because associated risks. Sometimes higher benefits come with higher risks creating a conflict that makes decision making more difficult. Proper application of inventive principles was often proved to eliminate such conflict and contradictions.

Improved collaboration & Employee engagement

• Being involved in creating something new is one of the most engaging activities in the workplace. It often lets managers tap into unexpected discretionary effort reserves. The approach we propose for managing innovation can be adapted to your specific needs at any level in the organization, fostering wide employee acceptance.
• We encourage our clients to promote informal relationships that span across their entire organization. Combining this invisible web with innovation focused facilitation and a selection of collaboration techniques creates a relaxed yet dynamic environment and is one of the most important prerequisite to a corporate innovation culture

Solutions evaluation and benchmarking

• Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis makes possible legitimate “apples vs. oranges” comparisons between different solution to complex problems
• Looking at solutions as validated ideas we propose an iterative approach to innovation. Several cycles of problem definition – ideation – validation – and back to problem definition may be needed before a solution is ready for market release

R&D activities (research, design, inventions etc…)

• Original ideas, creative designs and innovative solutions are most of the time associated with R&D activities. We will take this further by also proposing a systematic and creative approach to business issues related to R&D. Inventive Principles offer guidance in improving R&D capabilities and interfaces while reducing delays, risks and costs.

Productivity (Better ideas faster)

• Thinking out-of-box is already a well known cliché. The box, as a well-delimited environment, gives us a certain level of comfort and familiarity. Out-of-box offers the infinite number of options and the confusion and lack of direction associated with it. We will guide you through this world of infinite choices by proposing the tools that give the highest probability of success
• Following a well defined process based on extensive research allows you to avoid common mistakes, come up with better ideas faster and transform these ideas in profitable business solutions.