This is a framework developed by colleagues in Canada which helps with using the Innovation Fitness test framework. Click here for the tool: InnovationAuditScoring-V3
15 Capture Value: Learning to Manage Innovation
Unipart’s approach to improving productivity
May 13, 2015 : FT industry editor Peggy Hollinger talks to John Neill, chief executive of Unipart, about the logistics group’s methods for improving productivity, including a ‘university’ and ‘faculties on the floor’ for continuous training and monitoring.
James Dyson
This is a case study highlighting some of the challenges in developing and then growing an entrepreneurial business. Dyson Case Study
Activity – Innovation Management Project
Innovation Management Project This is a team-based activity built around a ‘live’ consulting assignment looking at ways to help organizations improve some aspect of their innovation management.
Reflection and audit frameworks
These are tools to help build innovation management capability Innovation fitness test Absorptive capacity audit High involvement innovation audit SPOTS framework
Absorptive capacity audit
Absorptive capacity audit. This is a self-assessment tool to help explore absorptive capacity within an organization.
Electroco
Electroco This is a case study of a large electrical company which looks at their innovation capability mapped against the framework model.
SPOTS – an audit framework for new product or service development
SPOTS audit. This is a tool to help explore new product or service development.
Innovation Fitness Test
This self-assessment framework is designed to help organizations reflect on how well placed they are to deal with the challenges of managing innovation. How well do they search, select and implement? How do they handle the challenges of building linkages into new innovation space and reframing the approaches which they take to innovation? Do they
Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia (INdT), Brazil
This case looks at the work of an independent research centre in Brazil, originally founded by Nokia and still providing an important channel for new ideas for the company. It has developed a strong focus on user-linked innovation and operates a Living Lab as a co-creation facility exploring innovation needs for the Amazonas region. Click

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Deeper Dives
- Sector Innovation Patterns
- Search strategies for peripheral vision
- Responsible innovation framework
- Policy Deployment Cases
- Intelligent design
- High involvement innovation – deep dive
- Deep dive: Frugal innovation
- Deep dive – Supply chain learning
- Deep dive – Servitization
- Deep dive – Open and user led innovation – OUI
