Nine steps leading to understanding your dynamic innovation capabilities
The Nine Steps needed for developing an understanding of your innovation capabilities to make them more dynamic.
This is my adopted approach to work through this in a systematic way.
No question, this is designed to make sure those involved take their time working through the different levels of understanding needed. A journey where you ‘transform’ your innovation capabilities is likely to be realistically over twelve months or more. So much does get in the way to deflect you, to block you, to divert you. This is the nature of organizations, any approach to making ‘transformational’ change, and this is what this is, needs to go at the right speed and deal with the obstacles and constraints in thoughtful, well designed and clear ways.
Why is this potentially a long journey?
Well to appreciate what you require you must firstly need to understand not only what you have but what it currently provides.
Then you need to construct a clear strategic position of where you want to go in your innovation activities and these are totally different and unique to each organization.
Any journey like this needs to be well thought through, considered for all its implications and potential impact and disruption to what is existing.
It is a journey you have to want to travel and your fitness levels need to be progressively built up.
So these steps may have ‘individual wrinkles’ to them but most probably follow the same innovation discovery pathway.