A template used by Cancer Treatment Centers of America to collect information about an idea and to capture the key value and potential opportunity of ideas.
A one-page flowchart describing how the company identifies, defines, and prioritizes problems & opportunities. ODL manufactures door glass, skylights, screen doors, and blind.
A guide to Harris Computer’s “Innovator’s Voice Competition,” which enables individuals and teams to spend some of their time innovating and creating new, novel products and services for customers. Harris develops mission critical software applications for the public sector, healthcare, utilities and private sector verticals.
An overview of the company’s structured exercise to stimulate discussion and surface assumptions around topics like the strategic rationale, the business opportunity, or the development approach. Crown makes forklifts and other material handling equipment.
The medical device company’s reasoning behind customer-centered design, which it says allows teams to understand and deliver solutions to address unmet needs, hidden opportunities, and difficult problems.
An overview and photos of Bayer’s Life Science iHub center and team, focused on digital technologies. The iHub’s competencies include sensors, machine learning, app development, and business model innovation.
A full overview of the Optum Garage training program, which helps teams build new products, establish new businesses and expand customer value through an immersion training program. Optum is a provider of healthcare services that is part of UnitedHealth Group.
Illustrated map laying out the key players inside the company, and outside it, who can contribute to (or sometimes inhibit) corporate innovation. Includes discussion questions useful in laying out innovation strategy and timeframe, and defusing some of the tensions that can occur. Useful guide for a management team discussing how...
A RASCI matrix is a tool that can be used to build consistent support for innovation, while mitigating against common failure modes like role ambiguity, when people aren’t sure what exactly they’re supposed to do — or want to weigh in more than you’d like. This downloadable Excel spreadsheet is...