You can’t plan for success or fail fast without knowing what matters. Organizations that seek to deliver innovation must understand their capabilities with respect to the required elements of a plan necessary to realize the full value of an innovation effort, as highlighted in a recent IOI Partners article. We call these required elements to […]
Monetizing Innovation (Part 2): The Right Team Counts Even in a Large Organization
For entrepreneurial activities, those with experience investing their own money in a company know that the organization’s team matters, as discussed in a previous IOI Partners article. This is no less true when undertaking intrapreneurial activities to tackle innovation within a large organization. The focus here is on innovations requiring significantly new activities for the […]
The Scientific Method: What Goes Around Comes Around
A sustainably innovative organization constantly learns and is comfortable with uncertainty. This type of organization seeks to remove uncertainty through experimentation that is designed to improve knowledge through two key actions: comparison of hypothesis with results and analysis of any differences between them. Formulating a meaningful hypothesis on any unknown, from customer and market expectations […]
Mind the Gap(s): Become More Innovative as You Innovate
There’s a lot of discussion about what makes a more innovative organization. You’ve seen some of it within our articles and they tend to include some significant cultural attributes. Cultural changes can be a long involved process and you may not be ready to embark on a complete corporate overhaul before attempting to get some […]
Achieving Innovation: The Essential Characteristics of an Innovative Organization
Why do you or those around you say your organization is not very innovative? Perhaps you can’t seem to produce “new” products that dazzle or your customers don’t celebrate their relationship with you. Perhaps you are frustrated that the simplest things seem to take forever and once complete you never seem to have created what you […]
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