Implement a system to encourage innovation within the company

As an executive or sector manager, you want to initiate a process to boost innovation within your area of responsibility.

To design and orchestrate this complex innovation system, you'll need to :

• Gain a cross-functional view of your company's culture, innovation processes, skills, customer value and organization.

• Identify the major components of the system to be involved, both internally (R&D, marketing, legal, finance, etc.) and externally.

• Implement approaches to detect ideas and transform them into innovation: open, disruptive, continuous, by basic needs, by communities, by uses.

• A portfolio of internal/external connections; pilot actions, incubation projects, experiments...

• System engineering and an orchestra conductor, the innovation department, to ensure the overall coherence of the system at strategic, financial, organizational and even operational levels (exploratory phase and incubators).

This worksheet will help you implement a comprehensive approach to selecting and understanding the business model, methods and tools that are right for your company. You'll need to refer to the related sheets to implement the six specific approaches to detecting and implementing ideas.