Innovation Process

When your innovation pipeline is slow, confused or unprofitable, most likely there is a problem in your innovation process.

Your innovation process should address the front-end to assure focus on real customer needs.

It should feed projects with a variety of risk and reward scenarios into your pipeline, properly nourish them, filter them, and optimize allocation of resources by early termination of projects that are "interesting" but inconsistent with your innovation strategy.

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We provide custom training and development programs in a variety of innovation related subjects. Our training is targeted to enhance the innovation sophistication and proficiency of your organization.

Recent client training topics include:

	Building a better innovation strategy
	Global IP issues for managers
	External collaboration risks & rewards
	Leading multi-cultural teams
	Technology negotiation strategies

Innovation Strategy

Is your innovation strategy consistent with your overall business strategy? Surprisingly, many are not.

Innovation strategy influences how you manage your organization, your resources, your finances, and even the other businesses you work with. Your innovation strategy should:

• communicates clear priorities;
• accelerate the decision process; and
• prioritize and optimize projects and resources.

A poorly defined or communicated innovation strategy can actually hurt your business!

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Innovation Capability Assessments

We can provide on-line assessments to help management better understand internal competencies and deficiencies and identify cultural obstacles or leadership issues that may be crippling successful pursuit of your innovation objectives.

Optimization of Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual property rights almost always come into play with new innovation efforts.

You need a proactive understanding of existing global IP rights and available opportunities to secure strategic IP assets that can build value for you organization.

Whether you seek to be an innovative first to the market or a fast follower, you IP strategy will become an integrated part of your innovation goals.

We can help navigate the challenges and opportunities. Contact us to learn more.

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Sample Projects

We collaborate with our clients to design projects to meet client needs. Our projects are not "cookie cutter" applications, but rather a tailored and targeted effort to meet agreed upon objectives and goals.

Some example projects:

	Ethnographic needs analysis
	Innovation strategy development
	Innovation team design & selection
	Staged Development Processes
	Open innovation initiatives
	Leadership coaching
	Innovation metrics design
	Global IP mapping
	License strategy & negotiation