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Innovation Skills Development

B4

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.