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Innovation: Do you have the best team for the job

Innovation is a multidiscipline activity at both the functional and behavioural levels. To this end, it is critical to innovation success to select a team that has the right mix of the necessary functional and behavioural skills. Selecting the right functional, technical or commercial team members, is usually a straightforward and relatively easy task. However, more often than not and to the detriment of innovation success, the right mix of behavioural skills...

InnoScreen : In-depth Innovation screening methodology

Many innovation projects fail due to lack of objective or rigorous screening of ideas at the beginning and at the various stages of concept development. To avoid these pitfalls, we have developed InnoScreen as comprehensive methodology (with scoring definitions and score action guides), that can be employed at an early stage (and at various stages) of the innovation process. The methodology helps to focus on six key areas right from the early stage of idea screening..

The Science of Idea Generation

Perpetual generation of good ideas is a critical part of the innovation process. A Boston Consulting Group survey of organisations practicing innovation as a core part of their overall organisation strategy showed that 22% of these organisations believe that their innovation efforts are being stalled by a lack of great ideas.

Seven Steps of Structured Idea Management

Structure Idea Management (SIM), sometime referred to as Managed Chaos, is a very powerful methodology for developing ideas as outlined in our article “The Science of Idea Generation”. Here we dive deeper into the seven steps an organisation must follow to derive maximum output from the process.