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Managing Innovation: A Primer
25 May 2006
 
Kathy Harris   Carol Rozwell   David Flint   Marc Halpern   Richard G. Harris  

This primer provides definitions, frameworks, practices and disciplines for managing innovation. Key Issues address how organizations will drive continuous innovation, the practices that will enable and sustain innovation, and the technologies and services that will support innovation programs.




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Table of Contents


    
 Analysis

1.0
    
 The Context for Managing Innovation
2.0
    
 Key Issue: How Will Organizations Drive Continuous Innovation?

2.1
    
 Create Tension to Drive Innovation
2.2
    
 Define Clear Expectations for Innovation Behaviors
2.3
    
 Choose an Innovation Strategy That Matches Your Competitive or Organizational Stance

2.3.1
    
 First Mover Strategy
2.3.2
    
 Fast Follower Strategy
2.3.3
    
 Conservative "Slow" Follower Strategy
2.3.4
    
 Alternative Innovation Strategies

2.3.4.1
    
 Value Curve Innovators
2.3.4.2
    
 Adjacent Space Innovators
2.3.5
    
 Partnering/Sourcing Innovators
2.4
    
 Focus Innovation on the Business
2.5
    
 Organize to Accomplish Innovation
2.6
    
 Build a Culture That Fosters Innovation
3.0
    
 Key Issue: Which Practices Will Enable and Sustain Innovation?

3.1
    
 The Process Model for Innovation

3.1.1
    
 Generate Ideas
3.1.2
    
 Evaluate and Select Ideas
3.1.3
    
 Develop and Implement or Commercialize Innovations
3.1.4
    
 Continuously Recognize Innovators and Learn From Experience

3.1.4.1
    
 Recognition
3.1.4.2
    
 Learn From Experience
4.0
    
 Key Issue: Which Technologies and Services Will Support Innovation Programs?

4.1
    
 Technologies to Support People, Processes and Information

4.1.1
    
 Technologies Supporting People, Expertise and Related Information
4.1.2
    
 Technologies Supporting the Processes to Develop Ideas
4.2
    
 Technologies That Support Critical Practices in the Innovation Process Model

4.2.1
    
 Using Intelligence and Discovery
4.2.2
    
 Developing Creativity
4.2.3
    
 Innovating With Customers, Citizens or Partners
4.2.4
    
 Presenting and Interpreting Complex Information
4.2.5
    
 Managing the Development, Implementation and Deployment of Innovations
4.3
    
 Service Providers and Innovation
5.0
    
 Innovation Maturity — An Assessment Model

5.1
    
 Indicators of Innovation Maturity — The Four Pillars
5.2
    
 The Six Levels of Innovation Maturity
5.3
    
 The Innovation Maturity Model Summary
6.0
    
 Final Recommendations

    
 Recommended Reading


List of Figures


Figure 1. 
 Common Innovation Strategies and Associated Objectives
 

Figure 2. 
 Team Design Considerations
 

Figure 3. 
 Example Early-Stage Evaluation/Scoring Tool
 

Figure 4. 
 Final-Stage Tool: Score/Rank All Ideas
 

Figure 5. 
 Technologies for Innovation
 

Figure 6. 
 Gartner Innovation Maturity Model
 



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