Innovation and Transformation Tools
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1. Innovation Blueprint
The Innovation Blueprint is a visual map to the future that enables people within a team, an enterprise, or a community to create a shared view of where they are headed and what is needed to create this future together. The Innovation Blueprint helps users design an integrated innovation system that creates a shared understanding of external trends, market challenges, new opportunities and customer needs – along with the innovation practices and tools, organization design, innovation architecture, necessary skills and culture required to make it all work. The Blueprint guides users to clarify the specific leadership that will be required, how they will engage key stakeholders, and the kind of innovation support that will ensure that people are capable of building the envisioned future. When complete, the Innovation Blueprint delivers a collaborative and shared roadmap to a compelling future.
The book, The Dynamic Enterprise: Tools for Turning Chaos into Strategy and Strategy into Action, by Lisa Friedman and Herman Gyr offers an introduction to the Innovation Blueprint along with case examples.
2. The CO-STAR Value Proposition Template
In Silicon Valley the oft-repeated refrain is not: “Do you have a cool idea?” Rather, it is: “Can you pitch me the value proposition of your idea?” More important than the idea itself are questions such as: Will the idea be relevant to a customer? Will there be a market for it? How is it taking advantage of an emerging trend or a new technology? Is it better than other available alternatives? What kind of returns can be expected? The CO-STAR template helps users craft a compelling value proposition and iterate it effectively with others until it becomes a market-worthy new venture. And in more and more places the question today is: “Can you offer me a CO-STAR of your idea?” See the CO-STAR book here. Request your free copy of the CO-STAR template.
3. Online Innovation Tools
To quickly scale your innovation capability, EDG offers two online innovation tools:
Q+ is an online platform for enabling innovators across a large group to post their ideas and CO-STAR value propositions. Q+ guides users to turn their ideas into strong value propositions, enables innovators to learn from each other, and facilitates selection as users vote their favorite ideas and CO-STARs to the top. Q+ can be used for posting spontaneous ideas or for sponsored campaigns, where leaders post strategic innovation challenges and a specific “Invitation to Innovate.” Learn more…
4. ValueSTEP™ Innovation Survey
To efficiently develop the full potential of your innovation capabilities, it helps to know what is already working and what is not. What are your current innovation strengths and weaknesses compared to best practices? EDG’s ValueSTEP Innovation Survey helps you track 16 Innovation Success Factors that separate the peak performers from the serendipitous innovators.
ValueSTEP is a useful tool for setting your innovation baseline and regularly measuring capabilities as your enterprise builds its innovation competence.
5. FOCUS Toolkit and Workshop – Design Thinking
Finding Optimal Customer Solutions, or FOCUS, is a step-by-step guide that allows you to rapidly identify high-value customer solutions. FOCUS uses design thinking to uncover important user needs and highlight the points of greatest opportunity. The FOCUS Toolkit is a guide to engaging key stakeholders, subject experts and even customers in collaborative brainstorming activities to develop breakthrough solutions.
FOCUS handbooks direct users through the preparation and agenda planning needed to set up and run a FOCUS Workshop. The handbooks provide instruction and facilitation tips as well as advice on how to turn your insights into actions and your prototypes into products.