Set the agenda for
Innovation Fitness
The Breakthrough Innovation Assessment
An Innovation Assessment to understand your strengths, weaknesses and priorities for improvement
Let's set the agenda for innovation fitness
Breakthrough Innovation Assessment is for CTOs in technology-intensive companies that want to set the agenda for innovation improvement.
You have the ambition to create more impact for your innovation activity and create something new and be seen as a top innovator in your field. This could be the first step in a wider innovation improvement programme, but you want to know where to start; indeed if it's worth starting.
Where would you use Breakthrough Innovation Assessment?
Your established UK or European-based company possibly with international reach may have become out of tune with the world. New technologies, digitalisation and sustainability transitions are imperative for tapping into the hidden innovation goldmine.
We work with senior business and innovation leaders in central R&D, innovation and new technology groups. This also means working collaboratively across business units through tailored workshops - online or in person.
When would you use Breakthrough Innovation Assessment?
The Breakthrough Innovation Assessment is for organisations that want to take a fundamental look at how they approach innovation. You see too many false starts or lost innovation opportunities and want to set the agenda for improvement. You see the need to take a fresh look at the way your company approaches innovation to consistently make a bigger impact, faster with greater innovation ROI.
What approach does Breakthrough Innovation Assessment take?
We provide a comprehensive assessment of the firm's technology and innovation management system and set priorities for improvement. We undertake online and in-person interviews with internal staff involved in the current innovation process and run a workshop to validate the assessment results and agree on high priorities.
The Breakthrough Innovation Assessment saves the waste that a complex organisation can generate from underperforming elements of your innovation system. And it saves opportunity costs from mundane innovation results and spending.
How is Breakthrough Innovation Assessment different?
How could you benefit from The Breakthrough Innovation Assessment?
- Our approach is based on world-leading research and best-in-class innovation management practice. We are business associates of IfM Engage at the Institute for Manufacturing at Cambridge University a world centre of excellence in innovation and technology strategy.
- Our team are experienced leaders from larger technology-intensive organisations and have a career in the development and application of technology and innovation strategy and transformation.
- The online process is based on the ISEAP innovation and technology model with 89 questions across 11 categories from business and innovation strategy to innovation process to how the companies acquire new technology and people and organisation.
- Our validation and prioritisation workshop is an engaging experience facilitated by our experts for you to set the agenda for improvement.
How does the Breakthrough Innovation Assessment work?
The Breakthrough Innovation Assessment is a managed assessment of innovation and technology capability. Before the project starts, we need to get to the starting line. First, we will hold a strategy call where you outline your objectives and we provide options for achieving those. We'll also provide you with ways to influence others in the firm to secure an agreement to proceed. When you are happy, when, we will create a proposal along with terms and conditions detailing how the project will work. Then sign the proposal and we can start.
We work with you to understand a deep-dive assessment of the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities facing your innovation organisation.
- Online survey of 20-40 internal staff involved in the current innovation process
- Ten one-to-one Interviews with senior stakeholders
- We test 11 key areas of your innovation system and provide a comprehensive report on the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for innovation improvement.
- We facilitate a workshop to validate the assessment results and agree on high priorities.
This could be the first step in a wider innovation improvement programme such as the Roadmap to Mastery programme, but you want to know where to start; indeed the value of starting.
What will Breakthrough Innovation Assessment give you?
There are several measures or outcomes you will be able to point to. You will see the hard numbers from the assessment survey data and the workshop participant satisfaction scores. And you will have a ranked priority list that you can quickly take forward. But there are the softer benefits; such as the good vibes and stories people will tell you over coffee. When taken with our Breakthrough Innovation service we can expect ROI from the process of 10-50x our fees.
Our track record shows you can expect 9 out of 10 participants will give a 5* rating for delivery.
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