Processes Archives - Agile Innovation

New year, new evaluation

We have already wished us a happy and innovative year 2023. Why don't we start with a new quick assessment questionnaire of our innovation capacity and culture? The evaluation or self-assessment aims to determine the situation in which a company or organization is, regarding its innovative culture and capacity for innovation. We base ourselves on the following innovation process model...

Orchestrating the future (1)

My thesis here is that, starting from a certain company size, harmonizing and integrating innovation, as well as medium- and long-term strategic issues, with daily operations in the short term is a problem that requires special attention. Therefore, "orchestrate the company" will have the meaning of harmonizing and integrating both fronts: the short, medium and long term, to "sound" like a perfect "symphonic orchestra", without dissonances and with "creativity" and "excellent" results. ”.

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.

A model for innovation management

Paper presented at the Third ACCID and APC Conference. University of Girona. Models are simplifications of reality that serve to reduce the complexity and transmit knowledge or experience which must then be adapted to another reality. We'll see a model based on business practice...

What can starlings teach us about business strategy?

There is no leader as the starling’s swarm. There is no command-and-control structure to direct the group. Indeed, it turns out that it is the very opposite with extremely decentralised decision-making. Whilst there maybe thousands of birds flying together, each starling notes the actions of up to seven neighbours.

Build the innovation portfolio.

Whether your company is small or large, your success in innovation will depend on having a suitable portfolio or pipeline of innovation projects and programs. And also, to manage it in an agile and efficient way. A set of ideas, projects, and programs that the organization is managing as it would with a set of investments, in order to obtain explicit results and objectives focused on an innovation strategy.

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?

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 or simultaneous levels. The three begin with where the change begins: the "identification" or "discovery" of the very need of change. Education and communication are critical throughout all the process.…

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 strategy, they must be part of it as an important premise. The whole strategic process must be driven by the management team, communicated and shared by all. Strategy on one page,…

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 replace some low margin and very competitive prices ones. But the results are not good. We try to formally advance with several projects, but all are delayed, and the launching times…

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 between 16 and 24 hours, 2 full days or programmed for 4-6 sessions of 4 hours. Our methodology includes meeting with companies before and after the course.

Innovate thoroughly. Collaborative engineering.

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 also have a decisive importance. Today we know that not all cultures encourage innovation. Therefore, sometimes, innovation projects cost much more to get to reality and succeed in a company than…

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 optimizing their internal processes and reduce their costs.

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.

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 innovation came to be a new innovation strategy under which ...

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 agile methodologies and customer focusand represented as a continuous flow...