To what extent does management recognize Innovation as a tool to increase the results? What will be the consequences to the business (financial, reputation etc) if Innovation does not go ahead or fails to deliver the objectives? Are improvement team members fully trained on Social Innovation? Think about the people you identified for your Innovation management project and the project responsibilities you would assign to them. what kind of training do you think they would need to perform these responsibilities effectively? What other areas of the organization might benefit from the Innovation management team's improvements, knowledge, and learning? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY company, organization and department.
Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'
For more than twenty years, The Art of Service's Self-Assessments empower people who can do just that - whether their title is marketer, entrepreneur, manager, salesperson, consultant, business process manager, executive assistant, IT Manager, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are people who watch the process as it happens, and ask the right questions to make the process work better.
This book is for managers, advisors, consultants, specialists, professionals and anyone interested in Innovation assessment.
All the tools you need to an in-depth Innovation Self-Assessment. Featuring 776 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Innovation improvements can be made.
In using the questions you will be better able to:
- diagnose Innovation projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
- implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
- integrate recent advances in Innovation and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines
Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Innovation Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Innovation areas need attention.
Included with your purchase of the book is the Innovation Self-Assessment downloadable resource, which contains all questions and Self-Assessment areas of this book in a ready to use Excel dashboard, including the self-assessment, graphic insights, and project planning automation - all with examples to get you started with the assessment right away. Access instructions can be found in the book.
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