Every organization already has an innovation system. Explore our insights on how you can strengthen yours and unleash the latent potential of your people.
One of the biggest challenges in a large organization
is the need to manage not just individual innovation projects but also the aggregate portfolio of projects. After all, it is this collective set of projects, drawing from the same pool of resources, that together
will achieve the organization’s desired performance outcomes.
Managed Innovation Portfolios
Clear Innovation Priorities
Effective Innovation PATHWAYS
Empowered Innovation PEOPLE
Managed Innovation PORTFOLIOS
Most discussions of the human side of innovation focus on the specific skills, mindsets or behaviors individuals need to be innovative or the corresponding features of an innovative culture. These are certainly important to understand, but if an organization fails to implement all the other components of the innovation performance model, even the most talented innovators can experience frustration.
Empowered Innovation People
Innovation pathways are a set of steps an innovation takes from initial idea to implementation and exist in
all organizations. They can be formal, informal or somewhere in between. The key is to ensure all pathways are intentional, explicit and optimized to
the type of innovation they are intended to produce.
Effective Innovation Pathways
Managers often assert they do not want to
constrain their innovation teams. However, the
highest-performing teams are those that are given “just enough focus” to ensure they work on the
most valuable ideas, while still giving them ample flexibility to explore creative new approaches to achieving that impact.
Clear Innovation Priorities
Innovation Performance
Innovation should always be a means to an end,
not an end in itself. These goals will vary from one organization to the next, but defining them clearly is
a precursor to building the right capability and being able to measure its effectiveness. For this reason, innovation performance is at the center of the model.
Innovation Performance
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Building an innovation capability is a systems design challenge that requires
a system solution; if instead you
try to build it by cobbling together isolated point solutions, each is likely
to fail in entirely predictable ways.
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David is a senior partner at Innosight and leads the financial services and innovation capabilities businesses.
He is a trusted adviser to top
leaders at many of the world’s most
iconic companies, helping them to navigate disruptive change, create sustainable growth and transform their organizations to thrive for the
long term.
David Duncan
Alasdair is a partner at Innosight, where he specializes in innovation strategy and incubation within the healthcare, finance and technology industries. He works with senior-level teams of Fortune 500 companies, helping clients identify high-potential growth opportunities, develop new business models and launch new growth ventures.
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