Acceleration of Innovation

Workshops, courses and consultancy focussed on the development and professionalization of innovation in your organisation.

Innovation is critical for new product and service development in private and public sector. The process of idea generation, modifying and reviewing existing products and services to meet (future) stakeholder demands, requires the development of an innovation framework. Informationland will develop in collaboration with participants from your organisation the recipe for effective innovation management.


Figure 1: The innovation chain showing the most common phases.In the lower half the occurrences of ideas, sales and profits projected on the different on the main phases.

 In consultation with Informationland your managers have the opportunity to create a successful environment for innovation management.
Innovation is about identifying new business and markets, develop new services and technologies and find new solutions for new problems and risks. Informationland will collaborate with you in 4 key aspects as briefly explained below. These are tailored, enriched with real cases and offered to you in workshops, courses or in consultancy. Each of the innovation objectives will be fully supported with a solid plan of action with time-lines, mile-stones and costs. It will show the most efficient way to fully developed innovation management.

 

Key aspects of our services

  • Together we investigate and (re)build a solid innovation strategy and make certain that this will fit well within the context of the leading strategy of your organisation. We will support this with a strong innovation business case.
  • We work on the design and improvement of the innovation process itself and compare the results with several industry best practices.
  • To support innovation we work on the set up of knowledge management and intelligence services. Also you will be given a full update to understand the use of the newest technologies applied in the innovation processes.
  • To boost creativity and potential innovation we will develop personal and team-skill development plan. In support of that we will look at the latest insights in talent-management and Neuro Linguistic Programming-based team formation.

Figure 2: Formation of innovation teams based on the four main communication streams in NLP.

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We find it important that each aspect of innovation is introduced thoroughly with theory, best practices and war stories, all well documented and presented. In our courses and workshops we work with case-based exercises in small groups, giving the participants the opportunity to experience, share and bring home a toolset ready to apply. In-company events will be fully tailored so that outcomes can directly be integrated in the strategic planning or the innovation agenda.

Building the innovation strategy and business case

A good innovation strategy supported by a strong business case is key in successful innovation management. We often use the direction and restrictions given by the current corporate strategy, or build a new strategy al together. This will lead to a clear innovation-vision and –strategy, both based on available skills and experiences, as well as intelligence available from external sources. This way we keep full swing of the creative and innovative energy, without drifting away from the long term strategy. The same building blocks will be used to make the innovation business case and return of investment.


Figure 3: The conventional product life-cycle with innovation phases

Developing the innovation core process

The best innovative processes have a specific structure with well defined steps and decision moments in between. Best practices often show professional transfer of knowledge and information between steps. Each step in the innovation process has particular functions and responsibilities and each organisation has for each step his own challenges concerning strengths, weaknesses, risks and needs. The information needs and sources as well as the needed intelligence can be established for each step. We will end up with the most effective innovation processes possible.

Intelligence, knowledge management and information services supporting the innovation process

Successful innovation processes depend on professional knowledge management processes and the availability of intelligence. Many cases show an acceleration of the process, often resulting in better and more frequent innovations. During our engagement you will learn how to put together a knowledge management program fit to support the most demanding innovation processes and we will show how to design intelligence with a focus on markets, technology, competitors, stakeholders and risks. You will also be brought up to date with accelerating technologies like Web 2.0, with project blogs, wiki’s, RSS, etc.

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Personal and team skills

Creativity of individuals and especially of teams is mainly based on the utilization of skills and access to knowledge and experiences. Working with Informationland you will focus on personal and team development in order to design a tailored development program.


Exercises will take place in brainstorming, creativity development, synergy, teambuilding, vision development etc. We facilitate to work on organisations own cases and show how to compete with creative solutions. Results will be compared with the original real life cases from different industries and governmental organisations.


Figure 4: Mapping the need for intelligence based support in innovation in relation to new products, new markets and their processes

The way we work with innovation

Courses
These are case-based interactive courses, often tailored towards the organisations needs. Participants can be introduced to the fundamentals of innovation or to the latest insights and experiences. Most relevant aspects will be exercised in cases and where possible applied to the own organisation. The participants will be encouraged to build a specific business case and plan of action for the professional development of innovation.
Course length: varies between 1 and 5 days and can be tailored towards any industry or sector, or even be made case specific. Public courses are organised regularly throughout the year and take place at universities or business schools in larger cities.

Workshops
Innovation workshops can produce vision, strategy, business case and plan of action around innovation, the necessary skill sets and management support systems. Often innovation workshops are used for kick-offs and consensus seeking. The duration is ½ to 1 day and can be given in series.

Consulting
Professional development of innovation management is often supported with consulting services in order to accelerate processes and gear towards better results. We help to create a set-up or further professionalise the innovation coordination and improve the cycle output. Clients often choose between interim services, coaching or consulting.


Figure 5: The mapping of flows against different management disciplines, showing information and physical flows within the value chain.

Figure 6: The innovation channel with support and performancemanagement disciplines

Practice leader

 Boyd Hendriks (1958). Boyd is an international operating consultant and course leader, with a long list of references in the fields of strategy, intelligence, knowledge management, information management and organisational development.
Clients: ABN AMRO, Agency for International Business & Cooperation, Cambridge Antibody Technology, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Central Bureau of Statistics, CIBG agency, City of Amsterdam, City of The Hague, CMG, CMI, COA, Cramwinckel Publishers, CUR, Delft Cluster, Delft Hydraulics, Rotterdam Development Co-operation, DSM, National Railways, HR-Blue, IMC, IBM, Institute of Economic Development of the Abu Dhabi University, KPN Telecom, Kuwait Petroleum Company, Laser Agency, Libertel Telecoms, London Development Agency, LWSVO, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health, National Revenue, NIVE management organisation, Oxford Management Centre, PCM publishing Group, Rabobank, Railned, ROC, Royal Dutch Navy, SABIDO, SLA, Squarewise, TICER,  TFPL, Tilburg University, TNO, TPG, Triplex, State University of Utrecht, University of Professional Education Amsterdam, Versatel, VOGIN, WOB.

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