Processes Archives - Agile innovation

Organizational Maturity

Let’s consider the maturity of an organization as a measure of its ability to adapt to the environment, to learn, to improve results and economic and/or social performance, all that with superior results, in the top decile with respect to the concurrent organizations in their activity.

Integrated Business Planning (IBP/S&OP) Evolution

Since the 1980s, the main business management process for many industrial companies and supply chain management has been sales and operations planning (S & OP, Sales & Operations Planning). With the incorporation of new projects and innovation, it has become the strategic process of integrated management. By Dave Manning

Forecasting innovation

Forecasts are a substantial part of any “Business Plan”. In any innovation project or ‘startup’, at some time it's necessary to carry out and present a “Business Plan”. What tools do we have to make forecasts?

Innovate: Ideas or strategy?

It is a fairly generalized fact to believe that innovation starts with "ideas". According to this hypothesis, ideas are first raised and then become innovations. But experience shows that the most successful companies with the most innovative continuity tend to be those that start from a strategic perspective.

Agile Innovation Management Course 2019-20

Implement, manage and improve an agile innovation process. Both the course and the additional support are based on international experience and excellence. Many proven ideas and experiences are presented to be implement ed when returning to your organization.

Innovation is change (& 2)

We finished the first part of this article listing some models of change management: Michael Doyle, John P. Kotter and Managed Change Model of LaMarsh Global. We continue with a brief description of these and a summary of the practical methodology used for the implementation. We work in three layers…

Interview with Francesc Güell by Responsablia

Following is the summary of the interview for Responsablia blog. Responsablia: How should quality and innovation be integrated into the company's strategy? Who or what people must push it and how to do it? FG: I think that both issues must be implicitly or explicitly integrated in the formulation of the…

We want to innovate, but we don’t get results.

"we want to innovate, but it is difficult for us. We don’t get results." Why? What's going on? Our resources are limited, we are a medium / small company, but with no doubt, each one is competent in their field. Our goal is to launch new products on a regular basis, to…

New Agile Innovation course 2018. Accelerate innovation flow as a business strategy.

This course has been running since 2006. We are redesigning and perfecting it every year from the experiences with the participating companies and organizations. Can be arranged on request for groups of 6 -15 people, from one or more companies or organizations. Can be adapted to specific needs, and be presented…

Innovation needs to remove barriers

Innovation and change. Innovation needs to remove barriers. I am convinced that organizations, and as such companies, behave and evolve as open systems. An open system is anyone who interacts and communicates with the social environment. Which, as a first consequence, is that to survive and develop they must adapt continuously.…

Innovate thoroughly. Collaborative engineering. (1)

The culture of a company are the people who in the course of time have been accumulated facts, achievements, failures, major milestones, changes, etc. The greatest influence are top managers, which are observed by everyone, but interpersonal relationships and the way that the company relates with its employees and collaborators…

Strategy on one page

A value for communication. The content and the wrapper. Today, communication is considered essential and organizations, from private companies to third sector organizations, communicate a lot and very different means. Therefore consider it a priority to establish a communication plan to enhance its image and brand.

Identifiers of good innovation management

A model of agile innovation based on business practice, as a process linked to the innovation strategy. The agile innovation is an open innovation model, linking the company with the outside, increasing their ability to learn, creating knowledge networks and preparing to deliver technological advantages, competitive advantages or benefits of…

The agile enterprise

‘Lean’ origins. Since Toyota introduced its "TPS" (Toyota Production System) back in 1975 with its performance and success, the term "lean" spread rapidly around the world. Now applies not only in production or in industrial environment but also in companies and organizations of all kinds.

A model for innovation management

Paper presented at the Third ACCID and APC Conference. University of Girona. May 30th, 2014. In the management of companies and organizations are ideas that matter and not the models. Models are simplifications of reality that serve to reduce the complexity and transmit knowledge or experience which must then be adapted to…

Innovation and ‘learning organisation” (& 2)

Differentiate. A company is active in one or more market segments where it offers its products and / or services. This also interacts with other actors present in the same segment, some of them competitors. A simple scheme used to summarize the different positions is as follows...

Innovation and ‘learning organisation’ (1)

The emergence of innovation is linked to the action of two engines: ° Responding to needs identified in the market. This is often called ‘Pull’ mode. ° The other motor is imposed by the application of new technologies to market. This is often called "Push" mode. The concept of open…

Barometer of innovation: A new self-assessment tool.

This is a tool for evaluation and self-assessment on innovation management and innovation capability of companies and organisations. It focuses on the areas that we think are the key for success of the process and the creation of an innovative culture. Innovation is considered as a process and designed with…

Why good initiatives fail?

Lead the change with agility and success. Leadership is a combination of appropriate decision making and appropriate behavior. Embarking on a change program without these premises will result in a failure. We have all seen failing too many initiatives and projects that seemed excellent, but that repeatedly failed to put them…