15 Capture Value: Learning to Manage Innovation

Innovation fitness test – a tool to help scoring

Posted on January 25th, 2016 by John Bessant

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

Unipart’s approach to improving productivity

Posted on May 15th, 2015 by John Bessant

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

Posted on March 17th, 2015 by John Bessant

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

Posted on January 10th, 2015 by John Bessant

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

Posted on December 6th, 2014 by John Bessant

These are tools to help build innovation management capability Innovation fitness test Absorptive capacity audit High involvement innovation audit SPOTS framework

Absorptive capacity audit

Posted on December 4th, 2014 by John Bessant

Absorptive capacity audit.  This is a self-assessment tool to help explore absorptive capacity within an organization.

Electroco

Posted on October 21st, 2014 by John Bessant

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

Posted on October 15th, 2014 by John Bessant

SPOTS audit.  This is a tool to help explore new product or service development.

Innovation Fitness Test

Posted on June 23rd, 2014 by Sarah Booth

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

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Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia (INdT), Brazil

Posted on June 23rd, 2014 by Sarah Booth

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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