How can we recapture the agility and creativity of our origins?

As explained in "How to select ideas and turn them into effective innovations", a recent survey of innovation management in large French companies has enabled us to propose five funnel models to represent the different dynamics of idea and project management. In the first three, there is a strong link between idea selection, project commitment and the budget process.

Based on our historical observation of companies, we have seen that the various forms of the funnel are part of a natural and logical process of cyclical evolution in five successive stages presented in this sheet:

• the start-up, spontaneously permeable and agile;

• the growing company that tends to standardize processes;

• the salutary reaction to normalization: that of heroes who push innovation to the limit;

• awareness of the need to set up systems to encourage "out-of-the-box" innovation;

• agility organization.