4 Tricks to Building a Successful Open Innovation Program
One of the most critical professional challenges that employees face today is being able to successfully manage positive change within their organization. Innovation is has become a watch word, with so many divisions not being able to find enough valuable ideas and then successfully manage those ideas into a commercial offering that sometimes companies even respond to customer tickets and bugs and simply label those results as “innovation."
However, many organizations are still in an experimental phase and need help reaching innovation maturity. For those folks that want to get started, but aren’t sure where to begin we offer these four tips:
Start
small Many departments and organizations are intimidated at the prospect of opening up brainstorming. They worry about the value of ideas and intellectual property .
Build in some room to fail
Not every new project can knock it out of the park. 70% of startups never get out of their first eighteen months, 68% of IT projects aren’t delivered.
Generate some early wins
Not every new idea is complex or disruptive. Some changes are easy to evaluate and easy to implement with big impacts.
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Once an innovation team has proven even some measurable value, it is much easier to apply those same processes and goals to other projects.
For full article visit http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2015/05/20/4-tricks-to-building-a-successful-open-innovation-program/
One of the most critical professional challenges that employees face today is being able to successfully manage positive change within their organization. Innovation is has become a watch word, with so many divisions not being able to find enough valuable ideas and then successfully manage those ideas into a commercial offering that sometimes companies even respond to customer tickets and bugs and simply label those results as “innovation."
However, many organizations are still in an experimental phase and need help reaching innovation maturity. For those folks that want to get started, but aren’t sure where to begin we offer these four tips:
Start
small Many departments and organizations are intimidated at the prospect of opening up brainstorming. They worry about the value of ideas and intellectual property .
Build in some room to fail
Not every new project can knock it out of the park. 70% of startups never get out of their first eighteen months, 68% of IT projects aren’t delivered.
Generate some early wins
Not every new idea is complex or disruptive. Some changes are easy to evaluate and easy to implement with big impacts.
Expand
Once an innovation team has proven even some measurable value, it is much easier to apply those same processes and goals to other projects.
For full article visit http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2015/05/20/4-tricks-to-building-a-successful-open-innovation-program/