Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Sharpening Your Skills

you need to diagnose how your organization manages the process.

The capability to make innovation happen develops over time and through trial and error.  To ensure your organization keeps improving its capacity for successful innovation, you need to diagnose how your organization manages the process.

Innovation process measures include:
  • Number of ideas generated at the start
  • Failure rates in the development process, and in the marketplace.
  • Number of percentage of overruns on development time and budgets.
  • Customer satisfaction measure--did the customers get what they wanted?
  • Average time to market, compared with industry norms.
  • Development time per completed innovation.
  • Average lead time for the introduction of a process innovation.
ACTION POINT: Review and audit even small-scale projects.  This may not offer immediate benefits, but will make your organization better at innovation in the long run.

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