Roadmap for Implementation
Turning an organisation into a vibrant innovation hot spot is a challenging task. Many ingredients are necessary for an efficient and effective innovation management system. This section of the knowledge base sheds Iight into the question how Orange Hills designs and implements modern innovation management systems based on Business Design.
Kai Dierkesmann
Business Design Coach
We enable companies to unleash their innovative potential in 15 steps:
Short analysis of today's situation
Optional: Designing the "Picture of the Future"
Definition of idea and project portfolios for next quarters
Implementation and restructuring
Enabling + Sprints: Wave I
Review
Enabling + Sprints: Wave II
Review
Revision and design of innovation management system - part II
Continuous implementation and restructuring
Regular review meetings
...ongoing stakeholder management and communication
The following illustration depicts a typical timeline for an implementation project. The key feature here is that we basically start with pilot projects (rather than an extended analysis), learn under real conditions what works and what doesn't in a corporate culture and adapt the innovation management system according the these valuable learnings. This approach allows us to build systems that fit well to organizational strengths and deliver results.
And here is a more comprehensive overview of the key activities:
Phase | Activities | Duration |
Analysis |
| 3 weeks |
Pilot sprint(s) | Typical Business Design projects with a "not too complex" setup for two purposes:
| 10 weeks |
"Picture of the Future" | Series of workshop with management and selected employees (or input from other strategy initiatives) | 6 weeks |
System design | Definition of the organisational setup for innovation activities incl. processes, tools and methods. The entire system will be documented in a "System Playbook" | 6 weeks |
Implementation and restructuring | Ongoing restructuring process to implement the innovation management system design | 5 months + X |
Sprints | Consecutive "waves" of Business Design sprints in the typical manner | 10 weeks per wave + setup |
Review | Definition of implications for system design etc. based on real-life learnings from projects | 2 weeks each |
Stakeholder management & communication |
| ongoing |
All these steps don't happen in isolation but in an highly integrative process including the management as well as employees of an organisation in an orchestrated manner. It depends on the leadership culture of the company where and and how employees are involved in designing, for instance, the future picture of the company (2.), objectives and KPIs (3.) or the organisational structure from R&D to go-to-market (4.).