Cultivating Innovation Capability

Successful business innovation requires more than just inventing new products, services or technologies. Innovative approaches only add value when converted into revenues and profits. While creative ideas are essential to successful innovation, no single individual can innovate alone.

Organization Innovation LLC recognizes that bringing new ideas to market is predominantly a social process, requiring alignment of multiple players and priorities across disparate business functions. We move companies beyond mechanical project management of technical solutions, creating deep innovation capability to manage human interactions (opportunity identification, problem solving, cross-disciplinary information metabolism, etc.) essential for converting creative insights into revenues and profits

Whether you embrace a proprietary business or open-source approach, we provide the innovation tools needed to bring your new products, services or technologies from concept to market.

Innovation Capability Audit

define and diagnose product & process innovation capabilities, including:

Innovation portfolio management processes and roles
Stage gate product/service development processes and tools
Organization “ownership” for all innovations needed to create growth
Allocation of cross-functional resources with clear prioritization and decision rights needed for optimal execution

Outcome-Driven Innovation

apply transformational methodology to convert innovation from an unfocused art to rigorous discipline cultivating breakthrough capability in delivering products & services:

Reframe innovation strategy processes and tools
Identify underserved markets/segments
Target & prioritize growth opportunities
Devise and deliver breakthrough concepts creative disruptive change
Cultivate unique customer value propositions securing profitable growth

Outcome-Driven Innovation

engage key decision makers in defining joint innovation opportunities that create sustainable competitive advantages for multiple value chain partners, including:

Innovation partner capability assessments
Identification and analyses of under-served markets
Identification and prioritization of profitable growth opportunities
Value differentiation analyses
Joint development commitments

Organizational Appetite for Innovation

assess company receptivity to new ideas and business practices; useful in predicting:

overall comfort with developing & implementing new business models
willingness to take risks (tolerance) in creating incremental and/or disruptive technologies
willingness to take risks (tolerance) in adopting new processes and tools required to execute in the marketplace

Organizational Appetite for Innovation

assess company receptivity to new ideas and business practices; useful in predicting:

overall comfort with developing & implementing new business models
willingness to take risks (tolerance) in creating incremental and/or disruptive technologies
willingness to take risks (tolerance) in adopting new processes and tools required to execute in the marketplace

Individual Appetite for Innovation

assess employee receptivity to new ideas and business practices; useful in identifying innovation team members:

open to new ideas or ways of thinking
willing to step “out-of-the-box” when generating new solutions
eager to improve work processes and tools
comfortable with recommending new practices generating incremental / exponential business growth