Make Your Organization a Center of Innovation : Tools and Concepts to Solve Problems and Generate Ideas

The call for innovation within both society and all sectors of enterprise at large grows louder every day. In order to achieve this, organizations need to attract talent with the insight and creativity necessary to be able to understand the needs of not only this generation, but also future generations. Make Your Organization a Center of Innovation introduces key frameworks that can be adapted to any business or team focused on innovation. Some aspects that are crucial for an organization to become a center of innovation are change management, process mining, and overall company strategy. Author Stijn Van Hijfte also introduces you to newer techniques that are still making their way up the ladder to overall industry adoption. These include AI, blockchain, and intelligent automation. Van Hijfte also takes care to ensure you choose the right innovation strategy for your specific company goals, as opposed to solely showing off the latest industry trends within the topic. Make Your Organization a Center of Innovation is perfect for business leaders, students, recruiters, and more. You will come away with insights about how to best prepare your team’s stakeholders for the changes that innovation brings. The mission and vision of your organization should always be promoting new ideas, but a roadmap is needed to implement them effectively. Make Your Organization a Center of Innovation is the guide you’ve been seeking. What You Will Learn Discover key innovation and idea generation frameworks that can be molded to suit your organization Prepare stakeholders for the changes that will take place Choose the right strategy for the mission and vision of the company Create an environment that actually promotes new ideas Who This Book is For Professionals that have an interest in innovation and want to have a high-level understanding of technologies and trends that could be useful in their search towards new solutions. Contents About the Author Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Call for Innovation To Innovate or Not to Innovate? Front-Runner or Laggard? Fear of Change Problem Solving Why Innovation Fails? Innovative Companies The Goal of This Book Chapter 2: Company Strategy Approaches to Innovation Strategy Mission, Vision, and Values Company Culture Company Structure Porter’s Five Forces A World of Matrices BCG Matrix Ansoff Matrix GE-McKinsey Nine-Box Matrix Treacy and Wiersema’s Value Disciplines Blue Ocean Value Chain Analysis SWOT Pass-Fail Evaluation Evaluation Matrix Concluding Remarks Chapter 3: Innovation Frameworks Types of Innovation ISO 56002 The Second Layer Ideation and Design Thinking Brainstorming Nominal Group Group Passing Idea Book Team Idea Mapping Directed Brainstorming Guided Brainstorming Individual Brainstorming Problems with Brainstorming Reverse Brainstorming Rolestorming Business War Games Problem Solving Frameworks TRIZ USIT Tools CATWOE ORAPAPA The Five Ws SWOT Thought Experiments Provocation Random Input Personas Empathy Maps Affinity Diagrams User Stories Mind Maps Process Methodologies T.O.T.E Model Creative Problem Solving Process The Four-Step Innovation Process Hurson’s Productive Thinking Model The Simplex Process Lateral Thinking Process Six Thinking Hats Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument 6-3-5 Brainwriting Mass Collaboration Concluding Remarks Chapter 4: Change Frameworks ADKAR Lewin McKinsey 7S The Satir Change Management Model William Bridges’ Transition Model Kübler-Ross Model Dealing with Change: It’s a Human Perspective Chapter 5: Digital Solutions and Trends Web and Mobile Applications Cloud Blockchain and Smart Contracts Data Science Artificial Intelligence RPA and Intelligent Automation 5G Open Source IPv6 Trends Sustainability Technology Positive Psychology Trend Purpose-Driven Organization Homeworking Diversity and Equality Empowerment Community Chapter 6: Continuous Learning Benefits for the Organization Benefits for the Individual Forms of Learning Formal Learning Social Learning Self-Directed Learning Online Learning Hybrid Learning Continuous Learning Culture Chapter 7: Focus and Expertise Product Innovations Process Innovations The Organization Model Customer and Market Innovation Types of Innovation The Organizational Model Collaboration Experimentation People Support Education The Innovation Team Concluding Remarks Chapter 8: The Innovation Process Step 1: Problem Definition Data Centralization Automated Data Flows Stakeholder Engagement IT and Operational Capability Step 2: Analysis Data and Process Mining Unsupervised Learning Autoencoders Data Scraping Step 3: Idea Generation Generative Adversarial Networks Music Generation Other Techniques Which Might Improve Creativity Influencing the Senses The Modern Age Selecting Ideas Selection Criteria Design Thinking Step 4: Testing VR/AR 3D Modeling Prototyping: 3D Printing IoT Evaluating Test Results Step 5: Implementation Market Introduction Why Do We Still Fail? Step 6: Monitoring Dashboards and Reporting User Feedback Protect Intellectual Property The Innovation Life Cycle Improvement upon Improvement Step 7: Repeat Chapter 9: Concluding Remarks Index The call for innovation within both society and all sectors of enterprise at large grows louder every day. In order to achieve this, organizations need to attract talent with the insight and creativity necessary to be able to understand the needs of not only this generation, but also future generations. __Make Your Organization a Center of Innovation__ introduces key frameworks that can be adapted to any business or team focused on innovation. Some aspects that are crucial for an organization to become a center of innovation are change management, process mining, and overall company strategy. Author Stijn Van Hijfte also introduces you to newer techniques that are still making their way up the ladder to overall industry adoption. These include AI, blockchain, and intelligent automation. Van Hijfte also takes care to ensure you choose the right innovation strategy for your specific company goals, as opposed to solely showing off the latest industry trends within the topic. **What You Will Learn*** Discover key innovation and idea generation frameworks that can be molded to suit your organization * Prepare stakeholders for the changes that will take place * Choose the right strategy for the mission and vision of the company * Create an environment that actually promotes new ideas **Who This Book is For**