Innovation… From Vision to Reality

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Introduction

• Define innovation.
• Understand what innovation is and is not.
• Compare traditional methods of capturing ideas to more current thinking and approaches.

Innovation Culture

• Understand barriers to creating a culture of innovation.
• Understand what innovation culture is.
• Drive the organization into a culture of innovation.
• Generate innovations within the culture.
• Identify the innovation culture within your own organization.

THE INNOVATION PROCESS

Step 1: Capture the Visions and Ideas

• Identify the drivers for innovation.
• Understand how to generate visions and ideas.
• Identify and record all visions and ideas through various brainstorming techniques.

Step 2: Create the Innovation Team

• Identify innovation team resources.
• Create a cross-functional team responsible for exploring and implementing the innovations.
• Ensure team includes both creative and practical individuals.
• Consider including those who will be impacted by the innovation (customers).

Step 3: Review and Combine the Innovations

• Discuss the captured visions and ideas in the innovation team.
• Brainstorm and expand on these visions and ideas with the team.
• Understand the process of grouping the visions and ideas.
• Develop a statement representing each group of visions and ideas.
• Review and finalize the innovation statements in the innovation team.

Step 4: Identify Benefits of each Innovation

• Identify benefits of each innovation statement to the organization, department/plant, staff and customers.
• Quantify the benefits of each innovation statement and related group of innovations.
• Describe the fit to the organization’s strategy and objectives.
• Estimate the business potential for each innovation statement and related group of innovations.
• Determine the impact on the customer for each innovation statement and related group of innovations.

Step 5: Overcome Barriers to Innovation

• Identify the barriers to each innovation group.
• Recognize the elements that cause barriers.
• Create ideas to “drive out fear”.
• Use mind-mapping to identify and develop options/solutions to overcome these barriers to the innovations.

Step 6: Prioritize Implementation of Innovations

• Use various quality tools to prioritize the implementation of the innovations such as multi-voting and priority evaluation.
• Prioritize the order to implement the innovations.
• Prioritize order to implement within each innovation.

Step 7: Develop the Business Effectiveness Strategy

• Identify all of the innovation implementation requirements.
• Identify the action steps required to ensure the innovations are successfully implemented.
• Identify the resource requirements.
• Estimate the time required to implement each innovation.
• Finalize the cost-benefit analysis of the innovations.

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