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How?
We map your organization´s aspiration for innovation against your ability to execute on it, in the only ISO compliant 360-degree assessment tool on the market, InnoSurvey®. The assessment sample includes external stakeholders, management, and employees. The assessments are typically complemented with in-depth interviews and two workshops.
The assessment is presented with benchmarks and tangible measures to act upon. Typically, a re-assessment is done in 9–12 months thereafter to verify the success and map the progress. It is common to assess multiple units such as sites, business areas, teams, and subsidiaries in order to be able to contrast between, as well as highlight, the best way of working. The assessments are comprehensive, deep and highly action-oriented. The full innovation assessment boils down into a tangible metric called InnovationIQ, which is a score between 1 and 100.
Result
In two to eight weeks, you will have
A detailed report; misalignments, critical blockers and strengths to build on
Tangible recommendations on how to use your resources more wisely
Compare and contrast analysis between different units/teams/divisions
An understanding of what’s accelerating innovation and should be spread across the organization as good examples
A common language for innovation
An Innovation dashboard of your metrics, including an InnovationIQ
How?
What is SustainnovationTM and how does it complement InnoSurvey®?
Innovation in general is not easy, but succeeding at sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI) requires even stronger innovation capabilities in several areas.
InnoSurvey® offers a powerful 360-degree assessment of an organization’s innovation capabilities in general. SustainnovationTM is a unique new innovation-assessment tool that drills down to the specific innovation capabilities needed to yield sustainability benefits. It tests for what sustainability benefits have already been realized, which barriers still stand in the way, and where a company is on its overall journey to become a true agent of change in the area of sustainability innovation.
Result
Will it help our company get better ESG ratings?
SustainnovationTM is not another corporate sustainability-assessment or environmental-sustainability (i.e. the E in ESG) ratings tool, of which there are many already. SustainnovationTM is a new innovation assessment tool that helps companies understand how to get better at innovating for the types of outcomes that do get measured by typical environmental-sustainability assessments. In addition, some of the innovation practices measured by SustainnovationTM (e.g. circular business model innovation) may be directly relevant inputs for some reporting regimes.
How?
In providing you with Innovation analytics, we use our artificial-intelligence powered solution InnoSurvey®, that looks at 66 different innovation capabilities to assess where you stand verses leading innovators and what you need to do to achieve the best return on your desired outcome.
The digital assessment, which can be taken in more than 20 languages, takes 15 minutes to complete, and captures a 360-degree perspective into consideration. This means that external stakeholders, management and employees are conducting the survey.
Result
You will receive an interactive innovation dashboard and InnovationIQ, which is an international rating system that measures how well prepared a business is to manage innovation across their organization. This certification signals that an organization is developing its capacity for innovative action and is actively working to align these efforts with key initiatives and organizational capabilities. It certifies to partners, investors, and key stakeholders that:
Innovation is managed intelligently across the three horizons of business development, answering the needs of today while preparing for the future
Leadership is adequately prepared to address the unique demands of an innovative culture, and need gaps are being filled
Overall strategy is aligned with leadership, core capabilities and culture
The Value of Standards
Even the ISO recognized one of the biggest challenges facing the working team in their article, Innovation and standards – a contradiction? How do you standardize the creation of radically new concepts and patterns of thought? Standards will not impede creative ideation, but lay down some best practices and create a collaborative language. Ideation is one aspect of innovation, arguably not even the most valuable. It is the process of testing ideas for their validity, measuring their impact in the market, and executing the ideas systematically that brings true innovation to life. As climate change, resource scarcity, and growing populations make innovation more urgent, we cannot waste time and talent on pursing unproven and untested initiatives. Innovation management will eliminate a great deal of waste, while maximizing and extending the value of our efforts.
The global nature of innovation mandates a set of standards and measures that will allow innovators to collaborate across national and cultural lines to solve big problems like the development of a sustainable energy ecosystem to power our world, and for the development of innovation clusters that transform entire industries, regions and systems to work better and more efficiently.
How?
Using our InnoSurvey® framework, we can assess your organization—be it private sector, government or non-profit – and identify your readiness for the emerging standard. Our assessment is summarized using the eight pillars of ISO 56000 and indicates how well implemented they are within your organization.
Result
A report delineating your current ISO56000 / ISO 56002 readiness and recommended measures to take in order to increase your readiness.
How?
Together with your DNA (identified using InnoSurvey®), we use a digitalized process to collect insights with our interactive tools in workshops, interviews, and surveys, and then present the results. Using our proprietary toolbox, we review PESTLED, develop industry and geography insights, map out key drivers, and develop key scenarios and link them to your DNA. This forms the foundation for the identification of strategic themes for your organization.
Result
A complete overhaul of your strategic direction, vetted against key drivers in a series of scenarios and against your organization´s unique ability to deliver on it.
⦁ Tangible recommendations on potential shifts based on scenarios
⦁ Identifies where to start, and where to focus your innovation program
⦁ Gets the right team ‘on the bus’
⦁ Brings new ventures to market faster by ensuring the adequate capability is in place
⦁ Aligns your strategy with internally and externally focused innovation efforts
⦁ Measures and gets the return you expect on your innovation investment
How?
Our approach is to dissect the wanted outcome of your projects (we use the Horizons model to categorize the projects) and build the right underlying System (governance, culture, aspiration), Ability (leadership, capabilities, competence), and existing process to form integrated practices that are more descriptive and less instructional.
By that, we mean describing what should be achieved within a given stage and less focus on any sequential steps. The goal is to achieve change even when uncertainty is involved. And even the steps needed for the desired outcome need to be subject to changes. In other words, we build change into your organization’s existing DNA.
Result
⦁ A common language
⦁ Contextually fitting ability for the aspiration
⦁ Integrated Fuzzy front end
How?
We know that intrinsic reward and a higher purpose are significantly more efficient in terms of motivating an organization and creating results. We also know that one of the most efficient tools to create intrinsic rewards is the story. Linking a strong corporate narrative to what you do, why you do it, and how you do it, will light a spark in the organization and boost the energy levels for carrying out hard innovation work from finding the first seeds of opportunity to all the work needed to bring innovation to commercial success.
Result
⦁ A clearly articulated and compelling vision and strategy for the future of the organization
⦁ A great story describing your organization and the place it serves
⦁ People (internal and external) will understand clearly your purpose, how to behave and act, and why you’re important for future plans
How?
The corner stones of feedback loops is that you identify the when, who, where and what of your innovation process. This is often tricky as it might impact who needs to get involved in the work. It has more the characteristics of designing a stakeholder map than just studying behavior and data. One example is that in the development phase it might be necessary to identify customers that are less representative of your standard business. Why? Because your traditional customers might require extensive NDAs and exclusivity rights to results, commercially blocking you from exploiting innovation. In cases where you want to co-create and scale up the innovations this kind of situation will be a killer.
Result
⦁ Identification of new customers for co-creation
⦁ improved organizational design and decision making
⦁ Valuable real feedback early on in the process
⦁ External ideation generation
⦁ Niched, lead innovation concepts that can be applied for adjacent areas
⦁ Radical innovation projects that have been through an appropriate, innovation encouraging process to evaluate its feasibility and impact.
⦁ Risk mitigated projects fed into Stage-gate or other innovation process
How?
Succeeding with ideation
Discover success with ideation through the power of Ideation360’s dynamic approach. Our method embraces a non-linear process, clustering and refining ideas in ways that lead to unanticipated, innovative solutions. In the spirit of fostering a continuous feedback loop, we prioritize keeping ideators engaged throughout the journey, no matter the fate of the idea. We also encourage collaboration – both internally and with external parties. Ideation360’s instantly created contribution sites, optimized for a mobile-first experience, provide the perfect platform for nurturing and growing these collaborations.
Experience the impact of Ideation360’s SaaS ideation management platform. Driven by AI-powered software, our platform facilitates the collection, clustering, and linking of ideas to strategic initiatives on any device – be it mobile, desktop, or tablet. Coupled with our robust Innovation Sprint methodology, we empower you to navigate any problem, crafting solutions within an impressive 6 to 10 week timeline.
Result
The result? Vetted breakthrough ideas primed for development and commercial success. This unique approach also promotes enhanced engagement within your organization and amongst external stakeholders. Choose Ideation360, and redefine your innovation journey today.
How?
When organization´s solution to showing their “innovativeness” is to to build a flamboyant new work environment, decorate it with bean bags, ping pong tables, keep the cold-brew on tap and think that voila: we’re innovative, because we´ve got ourselves a lab. Then they are in trouble. Instead, make sure to follow these imperative areas when setting up your lab:
⦁ Its leader should be someone the organization trust and is well-connected internally
⦁ Ensure that the lab´s “raison d’être” is clear and that its activities are tightly linked to the overall business and innovation strategy (does not have to be core!)
⦁ Ensure that it is clear between the business units and the lab if the aspiration is “Incremental” or Radical innovation, manage expectations and measures accordingly
Result
When we evaluate Innovation labs, example areas we assess:
⦁ Coherence to the business
⦁ Business unit communication and runways, does it work?
⦁ Train in creativity techniques
⦁ Install executive support
When we establish Innovation labs, example areas we focus on:
⦁ Location of the lab
⦁ Resource allocation
⦁ Operational Model
⦁ Install Raison d’être
⦁ Designing the lab according to your company DNA (through our innovation management assessment)
How?
What is SustainnovationTM and how does it complement InnoSurvey®?
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in economies worldwide by creating jobs, driving growth, and meeting critical needs. However, they often lack the resources and tools necessary for successful innovation. SMEs typically struggle with achieving the scale required for innovation, needing structured processes and baselines for measurement and improvement.
To address this, Innovation360 Group has developed a Regional Innovation Development Program (RIDP), which focuses on scale and stronger collaboration across industry and business ecosystems. This model is particularly relevant for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the GCC region. By providing a common framework and language to describe and quantify innovation efforts, SMEs can dramatically improve their innovation capabilities.
Result
What outcomes can we expect from implementing the Regional Innovation Development Program?
The RIDP model has been highly successful in fostering structured innovation, enhancing innovation connectivity, and leveraging collaborative learning strategies. This approach generates significant results and is ideal for regional or industry groups aiming to enhance overall innovation.
For example, the GrowKomp team celebrated several successes after implementing this model:
⦁ Average growth of order book by 25% (ranging from 10% to 100%)
⦁ Average business growth of 12%, surpassing the national GDP growth rate of 5%
⦁ Revised business plans to ensure sustainable growth
⦁ Increased diversity in both workforce and management
⦁ Significantly shortened product development cycles
These outcomes demonstrate the effectiveness of the RIDP model in driving innovation and growth within regions and industries
How?
The Operational Model links your Innovation Management System (IMS) with the strategy of your organization. The IMS consists of governance, processes, organizational infrastructure, and your organization’s capabilities and competencies
The operational model contains descriptions of what the value creation process looks like for different innovation paths, the external ecosystems connected to that path, the mandate the path has in terms of customer interactions, the organizational design if it is centralized, decentralized or integrated and which competence model that is needed.
Furthermore it provides information on how connectivity should function, what the management system is like outside of the IMS governance and finally how budgets are allocated for different innovation paths and value creation processes.
Result
The Operational Model defines how to work with resource and mandate allocation in and across projects as well as in the creation of the funnel of new opportunities. With well-functioning operational models the results created in the innovation process will be taken care of and transferred out into the business in an effective way.
The Operational Model also dictates the creation, vision and goal for Innovation Labs and how to staff your innovation activites.
How?
An Innovation Management System (IMS) is built up by governance routines, including metrics and decision methodology, the innovation process, organizational infrastructure such as ideation and project management tools, and your organization’s capabilities and competencies for executing on the strategic initiatives fed into the IMS.
Result
We will implement an ISO-compliant, evergreen Innovation Management System and ensure:
⦁ Integrated and improved fuzzy front end
⦁ Higher speed to market
⦁ Lower uncertainty on projects
⦁ Reduced Working Capital
How?
A playbook consists of an easy to understand process description, clear metrics, role descriptions, agendas, methods linked to the different process steps, and references to tools used in the company. Depending on the blend between first, second and third horizon of innovation, work will differ, and the same goes for what kind of innovation work should be carried out and by whom. If it’s product development, it is likely to be integrated in or replacing the New Product Development. If it’s process, business model or management innovations, other steps should be taken. The ideation part of the innovation process, including creating the innovation funnel and creative techniques, is described.
Result
We use our digitized Innovation360 Playbook generator to rapidly customize a playbook for your needs that can be delivered in any format.
You will get:
⦁ A coherent language
⦁ A common standard and one way of working
⦁ All templates, tools and methods linked together
⦁ Efficient processes across the board
⦁ Templates, role descriptions and process descriptions
How?
To manage a portfolio of innovation projects, from improvements to disruptive solutions, you need a mechanism that answers three questions around your portfolio of projects:
1. Strategic direction: Are the activities we are performing in line with our strategy, and are we distributing our resources in a way that gives us the best possible chance to execute the strategy that we have set out for our organization?
2. Priority: Which project should be prioritized above others based on value (impact) and resource availability (feasibility). That is, the valuation of projects should be the base for prioritization.
3. Value: Is the potential upside of the portfolio large enough for us to fill the growth gaps and on what type of projects do we need to close the gaps in order to reach our objectives?
These three basic questions create the avenue for portfolio management efforts, such as managing the portfolio for different parts of the innovation process, selecting priorities, balancing risk, handling uncertainty, and delivering on the strategic agenda.
Result
The portfolio management approach we use is a visual approach where activity, individual value and overall value is highlighted in an easy to follow way. The activities and value created is a blend between exiting solutions and improvements on one hand and novel new value and activities on the other hand. This mix calls for an ambidextrous way of working.
How?
So why is Green Innovation so hard? Even as we spend so much time on ESG initiatives, reports, and suitability strategies? Is it because we do not want to solve this problem? Is there no business case? Actually, it is because we do not know how to do it, just as we did not know, at first, how to produce a COVID-19 vaccine in one year instead of 10.
But we found a way to do it. But it does not have to be like that—and humankind has proven over and over again that it is possible to build capabilities and strategies for handling the unknown. As with any strategy, building the right capabilities that are aligned with the right strategy is the key to solving the ESG challenge and implementing the environmental changes that are needed. And this has to be measured.
We must understand the interplay of the systemic major factors on the planet. They can block, or amplify, each other. Isolating them is the biggest mistake as that might not only reduce the chances of success, but actually make things worse. This is the only way to mitigate the risks, rethink our business models and value chains, and create sustainable growing industries.
Sustainability work should (arguably) be prioritized in the following order:
1. BIOSPHERE: The life support systems upon which prosperity and development ultimately rest.
2. SOCIETY: A group of people with common territory, interaction, and culture.
3. ECONOMY: The large set of interrelated production and consumption activities that helps determine how scarce resources are allocated.
Green Transformation
To move toward a regenerative state in which we restore and fix the biosphere, society, and the economy, it is imperative to create more value, not less (as some say we should). According to many surveys, less than 10% of all organizations have these kinds of innovation and transformation capabilities in place—basically making it impossible to achieve. But assessing and building the right capabilities and moving from reactive solutions to systemic ones is possible and can be a structured process. To tackle this, we have developed the SOI Sustainnovation360TM, which groups 12 pillars into four categories that are measured and analyzed. Based on this assessment, capabilities can be built to prepare for transforming the organization, the processes, the business model, and the actual supply chain and design of products and services.
In parallel with assessing and transforming the organization, waste needs to be reduced and regenerative models implemented to go beyond net zero. For this, we apply our 4R model of four steps to eliminating and restoring (in combination with value mapping, stakeholder analysis, and innovation sprints):
1. Reducing the use of fossil fuels in line with zero-carbon practices for producing steel (e.g., in the process of refining iron), where Sweden is at the forefront.
2. Reusing (encouraged by laws that products should be repairable, which is the case in France).
3. Recycling (up to 90% in most parts of the developed world), and the 4th R,
4. Regenerating. A classic approach is to plant trees that store carbon dioxide. This is also called removal (which is, together which long-term storage, called carbon dioxide utilization).
Result
⦁ A transformed response organization dealing with issues in a systematic way and not ad hoc creating new problems while solving old problems.
⦁ An agile, fast, and profitable organization with high growth potential.
⦁ Defined current state, clear goals toward net zero and beyond.
⦁ Defined internal and external gaps (also called indirect effects or Scope 3) to be closed and a tangible plan for closing them.
⦁ The E-part of the ESG reporting structure in place with a plan, goal, and readiness for transformation and delivery.
• InnosurveyR
• Innovation Analytics and Benchmark
• ISO 56000 Readiness Test
• Operational Model
• Innovation Management System
• Innovation Playbook
• Portfolio Management
• Assessment tools & solutions for: Capability, Competence, Culture, Leadership, Structure
• Tools to achieve workforce planning goals by combining Action, Amount and Alignment.
•AI HR Platforms with actionable tools for Skill Shifts and Skill gaps
• Data platforms, AIRA assessment tools for infrastructure
• Technology Choices
• Integration Plan • Process Mapping (detailed workflows, inputs, outputs, and decision points)
• ERP Solutions and Platforms for Al Powered LMS, Generative Al, Data Preparation, Visualization, Machine Learning, DataOps, MLOps, Analytic Apps
• AIRA for Regulations, market dynamics Scalability and sustainability solutions for workforce planning
• Sustainability-Oriented Innovation Assessment
• Green Transformation
• PESTLEDR
• Our AIRAR framework measures the Al and future readiness of organizations across various dimension
• Innovation 360 Commercialization Readiness Diagnostic too
• Strategic Direction & Scenario Planning
• Assessment tools & solutions for: Culture, Leadership, Structure
• Innovation360 Group Circle
• Corporate Storytelling and . Values
• Feedback Loops
