Innovation Programs
Our innovation programs help you develop your innovation capabilities in several specific areas.
From new product development, service innovation, business model innovation to complete innovation transformations.
Our programs are designed for maximum flexibility and agility. They can be applied to businesses of any type and size in any industry. It is based on agile methodologies and the ISO 5600 family of standards.
All programs address and enhance the core elements of your Innovation Management System (IMS) - the innovation strategy (the compass), the innovation process (the vehicle), the innovation culture (the driver) and the infrastructure (the highway).
New Product Development
Through an agile innovation sprint, this program helps you:
Understand the most current, relevant, cross-industry intelligence insights to assess and re-define your new product development strategy and focus on the best opportunities.
Develop capabilities, methodology and tools to build, manage and sustain a balanced innovation portfolio.
De-risk your investments by helping you cultivate an open-innovation and crowdsourcing ecosystem.
Ensure your products will actually sell before you build and scale. Master Customer Development.
0 PREPARE
This is a planning session where our advisors meet with top leadership to prepare and define the agenda, timeframe, participants and logistics.
1 UNDERSTAND
Develop a deep understanding of the primary forces and megatrends shaping your industry and how you current portfolio fits in it and your market(s).
2 DIVERGE
Through a design sprint, your team immerses in a combination of design and systems thinking activities to propose hypothetical MVPs.
3 CONVERGE
Participants engage to explore and discuss the different MVPs and synthesize their insights until a consensus is reached.
4 PROTOTYPE
A prototype is built based on the resulting MVP from latest iteration of the design sprint.
5 TEST
Your new MVP's prototype goes through a series of test including quality, functionality and user experience (UX).
Service Innovation
Through an agile innovation sprint, this program helps you:
Understand the most current, relevant, cross-industry intelligence insights to assess and re-define your new service innovation strategy and focus on the best opportunities.
Develop capabilities, methodology and tools to build, manage and sustain a balanced innovation portfolio.
De-risk your investments by helping you cultivate an open-innovation and crowdsourcing ecosystem.
Ensure your new services will actually sell before you scale.
0 PREPARE
This is a planning session where our advisors meet with top leadership to prepare and define the agenda, timeframe, participants and logistics.
1 UNDERSTAND
Develop a deep understanding of the primary forces and megatrends shaping your industry and how you current service portfolio fits in it and your market(s).
2 DIVERGE
Through a design sprint, your team immerses in a combination of design and systems thinking activities to propose hypothetical services.
3 CONVERGE
Participants engage to explore and discuss the different proposed solutions and synthesize their insights.
4 DECIDE
Through a decision making process, your team decides the final features of your new service offering.
5 VALIDATE
Your new service goes gets validation from the participants and targeted lead users.
Business Model Innovation
Through an agile innovation sprint, this program helps you:
Understand the most current, relevant, cross-industry intelligence insights to assess and re-define your new value proposition and focus on the best opportunities.
Develop capabilities, methodology and tools to build, manage and sustain an efficient value architecture.
De-risk your investments by helping you design, build and test a new business model.
Ensure your new business model will actually deliver new revenue streams and better user experience.
Open Innovation
Through an agile innovation sprint, this program helps you:
Understand the most current, relevant, cross-industry intelligence insights to assess and re-define your new open innovation strategy and focus on the best opportunities.
Develop capabilities, methodology and tools to build, manage and sustain prolific collaboration initiatives outside your business borders.
De-risk your investments by helping you cultivate an open-innovation and crowdsourcing ecosystem.
Develop an efficient intellectual property management system.
Innovation Transformation
Through an series of four agile innovation sprints, this program helps you:
Develop an end-to-end Innovation Management System (IMS) as the core framework to maximize value and minimize time.
Our approach is designed for maximum flexibility and agility. It can be applied to businesses of any type and size in any industry. It is based on agile methodologies and the ISO 5600 family of standards.
Developing your IMS is a rich transformational journey that will require you to master its four core elements - the innovation strategy (the compass), the innovation process (the vehicle), the innovation culture (the driver) and the infrastructure (the highway).
These programs are designed around the core elements of your Innovation Management System (IMS) ☰
Your Innovation Management System (IMS) is the end-to-end framework that contains the blueprint for how your business creates value from innovation activities.
The core elements of an IMS are interrelated and must be aligned with your business' overall strategy.
An effective IMS implementation requires a strong commitment from top leadership to drive the new strategic direction, empower the team to execute the innovation process, address the infrastructure requirements to support it, and nurture the organizational culture to sustain it.
Depending on your Innovation Maturity Index, which defines how large the gap is between your current situation and your innovation ambition, this might be a tall order.
Our approach, services and ecosystem partners will help you along the way.
Run the four innovation sprints to develop your IMS to maximize value and minimize time.
