Agile Innovation
by Francesc Güell
Innovate
Innovation is the result of a strategic process, focused in future, managing a continuous flow of projects and programs channeling the necessary resources and methods to bring them into a successful end.
Introduction to Agile InnovationRemoving barriers to innovation
“Change and innovation, radical or incremental, have been and are normal things in the course of human life. There is nothing extraordinary about adapting. It is a necessary condition for survival, and our history shows it. The human being is an innovative biological system by nature since, in the course of evolution, it has continuously adapted to changes in the environment”
Samuel Husenman. “El cambio y la innovación como estratègia adaptativa”. In “El arte de innovar en la empresa” from Antoni M. Güell and Mar Vila. ISBN84-8453-080-9
Not innovating
Failure to innovate puts the future of our companies and organisations at risk. Same as not promoting knowledge, or intangible resources, that is, focusing only on the economic balance, day-to-day operations, and tangible resources.
Innovating
No longer is just undertaking the digital transformation or use of new technologies, but it’s the need to adapt to the environment, to accelerated change. Human history is the history of all our innovations, from the smallest to some that are fundamental milestones and have drastically changed the way we live.
Barriers
If continuously adapting is tiring, if in some organizations and companies it is so difficult to innovate, and if in certain areas, countries or social environments, innovation is not only not common, but it is scarce, rare and difficult, it is because there are barriers or resistance.
Are the barriers to innovation, change and knowledge that must be identified and removed.
How do we do it?
- Creating an agile innovation process.
- Identifying internal and external barriers.
- Improving our change management
- Based in education, science, technology, design and imagination.
- Creating knowledge and intangible assets, and striving to create value.
With this we also contribute to:
Create a more productive economy with higher added value that,
- Improve our health and restore our environment.
- Able to create more work and with better salaries.
- And, as a virtuous circle, increase people’s purchasing power and confidence in the future.
- Which in turn would be promoting a society of greater well-being.
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Background color PANTONE 17-3938, designated color of the year 2022. Blue-purple tone, with various shades of blue and semitones of reddish violet, seeks to represent the times of transformation towards a new paradigm that society is currently experiencing.
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.
Innovation strategy. Either we try to explore the future or will have to adapt to what is to come.
When we talk about an innovation strategy, we can refer to different ways to get to build:
Trying to find out the future and explore the different scenarios that are most likely to occur.
Be aware of the increasingly accelerated changes in our entire environment, and prepare to adapt as quickly as possible.
Agile Innovation Course 2021. Live, ‘Online’ & interactive
Implement, improve and accelerate an agile innovation process.
Interactive online webinar:
° 5 modules of 3 hours
° With practical exercises
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.
Webinar: Innovation urgency
The objective is to convey the need and urgency of innovation in all organizations and in all areas.
The thesis is that innovation is key to improving the macro and micro economy, and that in times of crisis, the most innovative companies and territories do better.
The existence of barriers to innovation slows down economic and social development in the areas in which we operate.
Accelerated and abrupt changes such as the current crisis caused by Covid-19 have further catalyzed the urgency of innovation and its necessary financing.
For emergency innovation we must accelerate the management of our innovation projects, reviewed and selected on the one hand, and extend the critical mass of innovative projects and companies in our environment.
What is the definition of strategy?
Suggested that a strategy be 35 words to ensure understanding across the organisation, there appears to be confusion.
Dr. Pete Compo, author of the upcoming book “The Emergent Approach”™ to Strategy, reviewed over 70 definitions from many sources.
A strategy is the central rule of a framework, designed to unify all actions and decisions around busting the bottleneck to achieving the foremost aspiration.
This definition retains what is useful in the 70 definitions and solves the identified problems.
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12 topics for entrepreneurs
Creating a new company is an exciting process in which, from the beginning, two factors should not be missing: innovation and agility.
Our environment and culture do not make this process too easy.
As for people, what is most striking is the lack of training in basic business issues and the loneliness with which they must face decisions that may later prove to be key.
Tool to assess innovation management
A tool for evaluating innovation management and organizations ability to innovate. It serves to improve your innovation process.
It focuses attention on the areas important to the success of the process and the creation of innovation culture.
Courses and active workshops
These active courses and workshops are intended for a team from your own organization to put into practice the concepts that we let at their disposal.
They are preformed since 2005 but are redesigned and refined annually based on the experiences acquired with the participating companies and organizations. All can be adapted specifically to the needs of your company.
Topics of courses and workshops
Innovation and performance
Innovation and performance are not contradictory terms, but on the contrary, they complement each other. So the more innovation, the higher the performance.
However, they can produce tensions in the organization, since one is directed to the future and the other is an issue of the present. They are two basic processes that compete for resources.
The strategy on one page
A single page should suffice to effectively communicate the vision and strategy formulated through main strategic axes.
That is why we present a model that is a way to express the vision and strategy in a clear and summarized way and a guide to define the strategic axes and clear objectives.
Innovation + Agility = Agile Innovation
Measures and indicators
Removing barriers to innovation
Innovation Push or Pull
Innovation: Key to productive economy
Create a company, innovation and agility from the beginning
European and global indicators
Innovation is change
The impulse or 'push' to innovation
Innovation is a process
La visión, el faro de la innovación
International experience
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