INNOVATION GUIDES
Our Philosophy
The role of the Innovation Guide is to facilitate or guide the organization, introduce materials, and assist when needed, and only when needed. We inject innovation management knowledge and process tools only when that is required and productive. Existing processes are carefully observed so that the company’s strengths are enhanced and used more consistently. This helps to create a learning environment that promotes innovation in the entire organization. By making use of the organization’s strengths, we accelerate learning curves and improve performance across the innovation and new product development processes of the organization.
Our Innovation Guide is constantly alert to where the organization is heading, and actively works to help reach the predetermined goals. Objectives are carefully discussed and weighed with management team and Board members. Staff members are then assisted on a day-to-day basis by reflection and feedback on their own performance, within the organization’s own set goals.
We believe that:
- Many of the ingredients that your company/organization needs to be successful are already in place, or are dormant. What you may need most is better utilization of existing capabilities. Less often, an important ingredient may be missing – but that ingredient has to take its place with all the others. By itself the ingredient (a tool, or process) is worth nothing. Actually, to impose it where it doesn’t fit can even do serious damage.
- What it takes to be more innovative is already well known. The field of innovation is always evolving, covering new territory and discovering new methods and practices. But the fundamentals have been honed by hundreds of companies working to improve their practices, coming together in places like PDMA and IAPD, engaging with academics and consultants who can create new distinctions that lead to new practices.
- Build your capacities through facilitation. A facilitative approach, which builds on your capacities and adds only what’s needed when it’s needed, is the most efficient and effective route to improving innovation in a natural way. A facilitative approach starts where you are and helps assist you to reach your goals while you learn how to use the map and the compass. This approach is the diametrical opposite of consulting: we help you take better actions and decisions yourself.
- Developing excellent people is key. Ideas and product concepts abound in any organization. Ideas are common. Excellent people to execute these are scarce. The issue is, how to make use of existing ideas and concepts, and how to help your staff members grow to bring these to life and realize your ambitions.
- Sometimes, a”left-field” approach may be what is needed. Then your company needs to know what left-fielders for your branch of industry or association are like. You may be too close to your business subject, to realize what these are. Asking your customer what’s new does not always help, nor does studying your industry peers too closely. We can help you discover alternative approaches.
- External expert reflection increases performance. External reflection will help you develop projects and innovation programs distinctively and significantly better. External eyes by an Innovation Guide can drive projects and programs forward, and can guide its course so that they have a far better chance for success.
Our Philosophy
The role of the Innovation Guide is to facilitate or guide the organization, introduce materials, and assist when needed, and only when needed. We inject innovation management knowledge and process tools only when that is required and productive. Existing processes are carefully observed so that the company’s strengths are enhanced and used more consistently. This helps to create a learning environment that promotes innovation in the entire organization. By making use of the organization’s strengths, we accelerate learning curves and improve performance across the innovation and new product development processes of the organization.
Our Innovation Guide is constantly alert to where the organization is heading, and actively works to help reach the predetermined goals. Objectives are carefully discussed and weighed with management team and Board members. Staff members are then assisted on a day-to-day basis by reflection and feedback on their own performance, within the organization’s own set goals.
We believe that:
- Many of the ingredients that your company/organization needs to be successful are already in place, or are dormant. What you may need most is better utilization of existing capabilities. Less often, an important ingredient may be missing – but that ingredient has to take its place with all the others. By itself the ingredient (a tool, or process) is worth nothing. Actually, to impose it where it doesn’t fit can even do serious damage.
- What it takes to be more innovative is already well known. The field of innovation is always evolving, covering new territory and discovering new methods and practices. But the fundamentals have been honed by hundreds of companies working to improve their practices, coming together in places like PDMA and IAPD, engaging with academics and consultants who can create new distinctions that lead to new practices.
- Build your capacities through facilitation. A facilitative approach, which builds on your capacities and adds only what’s needed when it’s needed, is the most efficient and effective route to improving innovation in a natural way. A facilitative approach starts where you are and helps assist you to reach your goals while you learn how to use the map and the compass. This approach is the diametrical opposite of consulting: we help you take better actions and decisions yourself.
- Developing excellent people is key. Ideas and product concepts abound in any organization. Ideas are common. Excellent people to execute these are scarce. The issue is, how to make use of existing ideas and concepts, and how to help your staff members grow to bring these to life and realize your ambitions.
- Sometimes, a”left-field” approach may be what is needed. Then your company needs to know what left-fielders for your branch of industry or association are like. You may be too close to your business subject, to realize what these are. Asking your customer what’s new does not always help, nor does studying your industry peers too closely. We can help you discover alternative approaches.
- External expert reflection increases performance. External reflection will help you develop projects and innovation programs distinctively and significantly better. External eyes by an Innovation Guide can drive projects and programs forward, and can guide its course so that they have a far better chance for success.
