Implementing Innovation - Targeted intervention for execution excellence

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Does your company suffer from organizational impotence when it comes to making innovation happen?
2. Do you miss great opportunities because people don't execute effectively?
3. Do you want to fix the causes of poor innovation implementation?

The Problem: Innovative initiatives that go nowhere
Top leadership calls for greater levels of innovation to meet key business goals and you respond with truly great ideas:

  • You get business leadership to buy into a high-impact innovation initiative
  • You work hard to align your program with your business strategy
  • You train people at all levels so they know their roles
  • You set impressive innovation goals to dramatically improve business performance

But 6 months later nothing has changed - the key measures of business performance haven't moved or are going downhill. You ask: "What's going on?" More importantly you ask: "What can I do to get innovation on track?"


The Solution: A comprehensive innovation process
Successfully overcoming innovation implementation barriers isn't an "impossible dream". It comes as the direct result of using proven best practices. Innovation execution excellence is the payoff of processes that have been tried, and refined over the last 25 years by winning companies worldwide. Implementing Innovation™ is a holistic approach that captures these best practices. We bring a powerful best practice framework to enable you to successfully drive your innovations - be they ideas for new products, concepts for new marketing programs or new business models - all the way from inception to full commercial operation.

Making it happen: A robust installation approach
Most importantly, we also bring a robust installation approach that ensures these best practices are institutionalized throughout your organization. We enable you to make a step change in innovation performance by:

  • helping you clearly understand the issues and weak links in your current innovation process
  • designing and implementing a comprehensive innovation road-map tailored to your company
  • establishing effective senior management decision-making
  • developing high-performance innovation teams
  • creating robust innovation process stewardship
  • piloting the full process with important innovation projects
  • using high-impact experiential learning tools to roll the process out

One of the most common - and most painful - problems with successfully institutionalizing a new innovation process is "backsliding" into the old way of doing things when the innovation consultant is gone. Our installation approach firmly establishes the critical mindsets, behavior patterns and reinforcement loops - at all levels of the organization - that ensure ongoing robust performance and continuous strengthening of the process once we leave.

Why This Offering?
Dr. Richard Tait, former DuPont scientist and Laboratory Director, as well as Innovation Manager of the DuPont Center for Creativity & Innovation understands firsthand that poor execution is the Achilles Heel of innovation. Richard found that ineffective leadership behavior as well as absent or broken organizational processes accounted for the poor execution he constantly encountered. To remedy this problem, he created "Implementing Innovation™" which clearly identifies the underlying problems and builds organizational capability to address these problems permanently.

To learn more about this program and other services provided by Bottom Line Innovation Associates, please complete our information request form. Our initial consultation is free and without obligation

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