certification
Certified Business
Innovator
Become a Certified
Business Innovator today !! Join the Business Innovator Certification
program designed to ensure proficiency in the
innovation process. When key players earn this
certificate, their
achievement stimulates the business to become more
innovative in its thinking processes as well as in its
products and solutions, thereby helping to ensure
sustained profitable growth .
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client stories
Luxury Hotel Chain
Delivered a customized Innovation Workshop for
several hotel properties to jump start their innovation
program.
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Large Managed Care
Helped a large managed care organization in Brazil to
deploy a Lean Six Sigma program aimed at expanding their
network and improving their credentialing process.
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Global Financial Services
Worked with the capital markets and private client
division to train and develop managers and analysts on
Lean Six Sigma methods and tools.
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Telecom
Conducted an Innovation Workshop for 1,200 employees of
a large Telecom provider of mobile services in Seoul,
South Korea.
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Educational Publishing
Asked to envision for them a cohesive near-future
value proposition to increase sales, driven both by the needs of
educators and students.
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links to innovation
MIT
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PARC
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Wharton Mack Center |
Harvard Research |
IBM Almaden
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Siemens Pictures of the Future |
Oracle Innovation |
Microsoft Innovation|
S-D
Logic
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SRII
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SDN Network |
ASU Center
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BIF |
The Design Council |
Leonardo Da Vinci |
IIT
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ISPI |
NextD
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Make Magazine |
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news
Tomorrow's Products
Z_punkt have drawn up a shortlist of ten
“tomorrow’s products” – a small yet classy selection of
what Z_punkt found to be forward-looking in 2008.
To download the list click this link to their website
Z_punkt
Harvard: Making Innovation
Work
In the messy real world, turning good ideas into
well-coordinated action is difficult. This collection of
advice, tools, opinion, and mini case studies from
Harvard Business School should help. Find more at
Harvard Making Innovation Work
Aporia Advisors
Roberto Saco, Owner & Principal at Aporia Advisors, has
recently been featured at
The Change Leaders network - a global network of
professionals to help organizations positively address
the human side of change.
The Future of Management
In his new book "The Future of Management", Gary Hamel
argues that management innovation is a greater potential
source of competitive advantage and a superior engine
for productivity growth than traditional notions of
product or technological innovation.
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MT website
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what we do
Managing Systems of Innovation
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We are an innovation strategy consultancy operating at the leading
edge of innovation management. We help companies drive business growth
by
supporting them in developing and managing systems of innovation. In
our practice, we assist clients in: identifying new innovation spaces and opportunities for
growth, developing coherent innovation strategies to
focus activities and building high impact innovation
teams. Systems of innovation may be
different for large organizations than for smaller or
medium enterprises, but the result is always the
same - we help our clients uncover their greatest
opportunities for innovation effectiveness and devise a
strategy for accomplishing them.
Innovation is a complex arena, but one that is composed
of several key elements forming a system, each of which can be clearly
identified and understood. Organizations starting out on
the innovation journey, and those that have already
taken the first steps alike, often wish to gain a clear
view of the different options available to them. They
want to know what alternatives there are in such areas
as: strategic focus, the mix of types and levels of
innovation, the capabilities required to achieve
innovation effectiveness and the varied organizational
approaches that companies adopt. Their ultimate goal is
to attain innovation effectiveness.
Contact us to know more about our Innovation
Diagnostic, a hands-on approach to examine root
causes of suboptimal innovation performance.
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featured innovation book
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Book: "Innovation Hardwired"
authored by Alexis Goncalves
There has been much
discussion lately about the various innovation
strategies and approaches. As innovation is becoming an
imperative for any organization, there is
confusion about how to go about innovating. This
book provides a framework for hardwiring
innovation in your organization and improving the
capacity to innovate. The reader will find plenty of
real case examples to help understand what are the
business implications from the latest insights on
innovation.
Click
to buy from
Amazon.com
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insight
Article on Service Design
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In this article, "Service
Design: An Appraisal", Goncalves and Saco
profile services as centered on the customer experience
and as demanding a holistic approach to design through
integrating strategies, systems, processes and
touch-points. They illustrate their ideas with several
examples. At the Ritz-Carlton hotels, scenography
workbooks choreograph the brand from check-in to dining.
For Herman Miller’s office furnishings group, the future
is less about designing modular systems and more about
radical flexibility and personalization. In the
continuously evolving world of Egg Banking, PLC, a
British Internet bank, executives seek to build
relationships with customers as a trusted financial
partner. With these cases, the authors balance theory
and practice, suggest the breadth of service design, and
demonstrate how success blends elements that are
rational and scientific with others that are emotional,
exuberant, and innovative.
Click here to download the
article
Service Design: An Appraisal
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how we can help
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Typical Engagements |
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We help companies achieve innovation effectiveness in
lots of ways, but usually we work with clients on six different
types of engagement.
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Approaches Used |
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The approaches we use are always tailored to the way the
client would like to work, but at its heart there are
five capabilities required to achieve innovation
effectiveness.
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viewpoints
Innovation acid test
Should you find yourself in need to evaluate how good is
your innovation strategy, here are some basic things for
you to consider in your evaluation.
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12 questions to evaluate new technology
Categorizing, understanding and filtering the latest
information on emerging technologies can be made easier
if you know what to ask.
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Weak signals and innovation
A weak signal is an idea or trend that will affect how
we do business, what business we do, and the environment
in which we will work service roles.
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Managerial foresight
Managerial foresight is a critical capability for
innovation - i.e., the ability to gain a deeper
understanding than competitors of the trends and
discontinuities – technological, demographic,
regulatory, lifestyle – that could be used to transform
and create new competitive space.
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Service design explained
Service design is the practice of defining and building
customer experiences that are compelling and
transformational.
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