Innovation Tools, Methodologies, and Frameworks
Identify and raise awareness of tools, technologies, frameworks, and related training and have informed staff or external experts make recommendations on which to master and use.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Innovation Tools, Methodologies, and Frameworks at each level of maturity.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Provide the necessary tools and training to enable individuals to be successful in innovation roles.
- Outcome
- Basic innovation is enabled.
- Metrics
- # of innovations by employee.
- # of patents by employee.
- Practice
- Encourage staff to innovate.
- Outcome
- Staff are empowered and willing to innovate and take the necessary risks to be successful.
- Metrics
- # of innovations by employee.
- # of patents by employee.
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Provide the necessary tools, methodologies, and frameworks; and provide staff with the training to enable them to be successful in innovation roles.
- Outcome
- A standard innovation capability is enabled.
- Metrics
- # of innovations by employee.
- # of patents by employee.
- Practices
- Encourage, authorize, and reward staff for their innovative contributions.
- Use brown bag days, patent acknowledgement days, and so forth.
- Outcome
- Staff are empowered and willing to innovate and take the necessary risks to be successful.
- Metrics
- # of innovations by employee.
- # of patents by employee.
- 4Advanced
- Practice
- Provide the necessary advanced tools, methodologies, and frameworks with advanced training and education opportunities to enable staff to be successful in demanding innovation assignments.
- Outcome
- Advanced innovation is enabled.
- Metrics
- # of innovations by employee.
- # of patents by employee.
- Practice
- Senior management encourages and facilitates the authorization and rewarding of staff for innovative contributions.
- Outcome
- Staff are empowered and willing to innovate and take the necessary risks to be successful.
- Metrics
- # of innovations by employee.
- # of patents by employee.
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Provide the necessary leading edge tools, methodologies, and frameworks; and provide staff with the most advanced training and education opportunities to enable them to be successful in the most demanding of innovation assignments.
- Outcome
- A leading edge innovation capability is enabled to satisfy the most demanding innovation tasks.
- Metrics
- # of innovations by employee.
- # of patents by employee.
- Practice
- Promote a culture that is enthused and rewarded by innovation and accepts failures without blame games.
- Outcome
- Staff are empowered and willing to innovate and take the necessary risks to be successful.
- Metrics
- # of innovations by employee.
- # of patents by employee.