I am trying to catch up here with some of the blogs that I subscribe to. I’ve been working hard on the wiki and therefore posting to cph127.com has been a lower priority. Now that has to change.
I wanted to point you to a blog post some weeks ago by Boris from the Corporate Innovation Blog on a HBS article on Operational Innovation. It features six steps:
1) Process focus - focusing your innovation efforts on
a very small area, means that you are also limiting the scope of the
benefits you’ll get from innovation.
2) Process owners -
Assign a process owner (a senior executive empowered to make the
changes needed) to own the process for the whole enterprise.
3) Full-time design team
- Use a full-time team to conduct the necessary process redesign rather
than asking team members to do this part-time. Then invest in them -
their education, methodology, etc.
4) Managerial Engagement
- Actively engage the senior management team in the implementation
process to make sure the projects don’t languish in limbo and to ensure
that departmental heads are released from their narrow focus to instead
consider the end-to-end implications.
5) Building Buy-In
- Engage participants throughout the redesign process so as to engage
and enable buy-in into the process as it is developed, and to reduce
the stress of future changes.
6) Bias for Action
- Develop a solution that provides most but not all desired
capabilities, get into the field quickly, and then enhance it over
time. This approach allows concepts to be tested, builds momentum and
credibility, and delivers early benefits that silence critics and sway
doubters.
One comment so far
interesting stuff.
just what i needed in this very moment.
thanks