innovation ecosystem implementation
A healthy ecosystem of innovation doesn’t necessarily require to recruit highly qualified, highly compensated executives to create an isolated department.
It starts with a common understanding of the innovation strategy, mindset, and processes. This common vision helps actively engage your team members in the new innovation approach you want to promote internally, and creates a magnet effect to retain and attract the best talent.
Redesign your ecosystem of innovation to capture, test and take to market innovative ideas sparking within your teams, in co-creation with you key stakeholders.
WHAT RESULTS CAN YOU EXPECT?
We will audit your current corporate culture, take you through the creation of an action plan to help your company adopt an innovation model, and lead the implementation of structures and processes to foster and deploy innovative initiatives within your teams.
- At the audit and recommendation stage, you will gain a clear vision of how your company’s culture is positioned, what your internal strengths and areas of improvement are, and what steps you can take to improve the innovation dynamic in your teams. You can decide to implement the plan on your own, or go for a small-scale pilot project to test the water.
- Launching a pilot test, learning from it, adapting the outcomes to your culture and processes, is at the heart of the most recent innovation methodologies (Lean Startup, Design Thinking, Agile, etc). Once the pilot is over, you will be equipped with a solid toolbox from which to roll out an innovation plan that sparks a new dynamic through your company and your teams.
- We guide you through the rollout of the full scale implementation of the plan, involving all levels of the company, along with HR policy adjustment, internal and external communication pillars, connections with the innovation ecosystem, training workshops for target teams, involvement of external stakeholders, etc. Your business will be fully prepared to consistently create and launch profitable and sustainable new offerings to boost your growth and stay ahead of your competition.
Innovation can spark from everywhere in the organization, and we can prepare everyone to create the next big thing for your company!
implement your innovation ecosystem
Step 1: Audit and recommendations of action plan
PROCESS OVERVIEW:
Interviews with specific profiles in your organization to determine where your strengths are and identify the areas of improvement.
Report detailing how your company’s innovation culture is positioned assorted with recommendations to boost your internal processes and the innovation dynamics among your people.
Step 2: Pilot test and action plan adjustment
PROCESS OVERVIEW:
- Set up of a pilot project to prototype the future innovation process in your company with a selected team from various responsibility levels, with regular follow-up meetings and adjustments.
Step 3: Large scale roll out of innovation plan
process overview:
- Rollout of the full scale implementation of the plan, involving all levels of the company, along with adjustments to innovation accounting and HR policies, training workshops for target teams, involvement of external stakeholders.
Monthly follow-ups to maintain and stabilize the new culture dynamics are available.
Note: To provide you with the best service of Innovation Culture Redesign, we may involve third party partners for specific areas.
Frequently asked questions
Business leaders are often afraid that innovation consultancy services may be highly expensive. It doesn’t have to be. At Disruptive Agent, we are convinced that transferring innovation skills to our clients shouldn’t take forever, cost fortunes, or be so complex that they need more services from us each time they want to innovate further.
No, innovation consulting doesn’t have to be very expensive. We offer various price options that let you familiarize with the latest innovation methodologies, transform your idea into a product or service, design and implement an innovative growth strategy, or boost your internal culture of innovation.
Book a free 30-minute call to discuss your objectives, and the solutions that we can offer you to stay within your budget.
Running the daily business is time consuming enough, and your teams need to stay focused on their assignments.
By experience, we have come to witness 2 things: 1- innovation spirit can be intertwined with the fabric of the daily tasks, and not add more time to the to-do list of the team members, but they have to be taught how, 2- at some point, you will have to dedicate time to an innovation process tailored to your needs and activities.
Let’s be honest, some changes in your company need to occur, but they don’t need to be dramatic or at the expense of the daily business. Book a free 30-minute call to discuss your objectives, and the solutions that we can offer to keep the timing reasonable.
Innovative ideas can come from every part of the organization, or outside of it, if you know how to listen and capture them. You can set up a workflow that will enable your teams to share their innovation ideas, your management to evaluate them, and your support departments to enable their creation: it doesn’t have to take forever or force you to reorganize your company top to bottom. Learn how you can implement simple processes to capture novel ideas, reward your teams with relevant criteria and a solid innovation accountability program. Book a free 30-minute call to discuss your objectives, and the solutions to create a healthy innovation culture.
Business leaders generally know their clients and the markets they operate within very well. They are acute listeners of the current problems that need solving. With a little practice, they (and everyone in the organization that is in contact with external clients / partners / suppliers) can build on the trust existing in these relationships to uncover and prioritize which needs, obstacles, frustrations are most urgent for these stakeholders. Listening to your current clients or business partners, being able to uncover, understand, interpret their future needs, are skills that are necessary in building the next generation of your products or services. Co-creation with your clients will guarantee future revenue streams simply because you respond to a need or a pain that is rooted in your clients’ daily business. These skills can be learned, along with simple processes to facilitate them.
Book a free 30-minute call to discuss your objectives, and the solutions to co-create your future offer with your clients.
Absolutely ! At Disruptive Agent, we love to teach our methods, and we are firm believers that the ability to innovate is not specific to some, but can be developed and nurtured with simple methods and processes within any type of team or personality. Training and coaching are the foundation of our services: they allow you and your teams to integrate the innovation mindset and processes, adapt them to your internal culture, and keep ahead of the competition thanks to your ability to foresee and create successful new business models.
Book a free 30-minute call to discuss your objectives with us!