Creating Value

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

Responsible innovation framework

Posted on January 11th, 2015 by John Bessant

This framework has been developed by Richard Owen and colleagues and is designed to enable discussion and exploration around the key theme of responsible innovation.

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.

Activity – Business model innovation

Posted on January 10th, 2015 by John Bessant

activity business model innovation

Alex Osterwalder on Business Models

Posted on January 10th, 2015 by John Bessant

In these videos Alex Osterwalder explains the basic ideas behind the Business Model Canvas   1. A short talk about the principles of BMC 2. Longer – 45 minutes – talk 3. A series of talks about different aspects of BMC 4. A short interview with Alex  

Activity – Value creation

Posted on January 10th, 2015 by John Bessant

Value creation

Self-test quizzes

Posted on December 7th, 2014 by John Bessant

These are some quick interactive self-test quizzes covering various themes. Introduction to innovation Social innovation and entrepreneurship Globalization Building innovative organizations Sources of innovation Discontinuous innovation Searching for opportunities Innovation networks Developing new products and services Starting new ventures Knowledge and intellectual property Creating value and growing ventures Learning to manage innovation      

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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.

Activity – identifying innovative capabilities

Posted on November 30th, 2014 by John Bessant

This activity helps explore the idea of building and exploiting innovative capabilities