Innovation Skills Development
Develop employees' skills to enable and leverage technology-driven innovation.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Innovation Skills Development at each level of maturity.
- 2Basic
- Practices
- Assistance and support programme for further education or training.
- Targeted internal training programme developed.
- Outcomes
- Formalizing innovation development offerings helps to reinforce the focus and goals of innovation inside the organization.
- Initial training helps primarily with understanding.
- More in-depth development helps build skills and experiences.
- Metrics
- # of Internal Innovation training offerings developed.
- # of innovation training offerings attended.
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Technology Leader (TL) programme developed.
- Outcome
- In conjunction with innovation development programs (level 2) development of a TL programme helps solidify growth of the capabilities that sustain innovative, creative problem solving systemically.
- Metrics
- # of Internal Innovation training offerings developed.
- # of innovation training offerings attended.
- % TL program implemented.
- 4Advanced
- Practice
- Formal criteria for acceptance on TL programme.
- Outcome
- As innovation training and Tech Leader programs become systemic, metrics and outcome help the organization focus more intensely on goals and outcome for Innovation.
- Metrics
- # of Internal Innovation training offerings developed.
- # of innovation training offerings attended.
- # Technical Leaders Identified.
- # of innovations identified by Tech Leaders.
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Innovation training and Tech-leader programmes viewed as an industry best practice and shared beyond the boundary of the enterprise.
- Outcome
- Sharing the focus and tech leader focus beyond the business to the industry validates innovation approaches inside the business while enabling fresh ideas from the industry.
- Metrics
- # of Internal Innovation training offerings developed.
- # of innovation training offerings attended.
- # Technical Leaders Identified.
- # of innovations identified by Tech Leaders.