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We drive value for our clients through innovation. We do this by implementing our Continuous Innovation Framework within your organization.

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Innovation

noun [C or U]: (the use of) a new idea or method

Improvement

noun [C or U]: (the use of) an occasion when something gets better or is made better

Framework

noun: a supporting structure around which something can be built; a system of rules, ideas or beliefs that is used to plan or decide something

Innovation can be the creation of something new or the creation of a step change in something that exists. Improvement is normally a series of small steps that improve the performance of something and is normally focused on existing systems. The implementation of our Continuous Innovation Framework drives value creation on an on-going basis by implementing structures and processes that facilitate innovation, or improvements using the techniques of innovation, across your entire organization.

Why innovate?

To increase your ability to manage uncertainty
To increase growth, revenue, profitability and competitiveness
To reduce costs and waste, and increase productivity and resource efficiency
To improve sustainability and resilience
To increase the satisfaction of users, customers, citizens and other interested stakeholders
To maintain a sustained renewal of your portfolio of offerings
To engage and empower people in your organization
To increase your ability to attract partners, collaborators and funding

Tell us your reason.

Institutionalizing Innovation

Every organization is born through innovation. That is always the natural beginning. But every organization needs to continue innovating in order to thrive, or even survive.

Innovation Unknown works closely with organizations to help institutionalize innovation as a core competency, while delivering customized services that address the unique needs and opportunities intrinsic to each client.

Our services are centred around the Continuous Innovation Framework, a methodology proven to institutionilize innovation, change mindsets and embed a creative approach into the culture. It fosters a proactive and sustainable management approach that elevates team performance to drive growth, competitiveness, and efficiencies.

Our collaboratively designed solutions are practical, measurable and encompass a mix of workshops, coaching and advisory components.

The Framework

A set of interconnected components

Each component of the framework performs a role and takes input from or provides output to other components. The size or complexity of each component can be adjusted to accommodate a department, a division or an entire organization. You can start implementing the framework at any level and move up or down from there.

Creativity and structure are balanced.

Assessment

To know where you are going, and how to get there, you need to know where you are. Assessing the status of each framework component provide the map to your innovation successes.

Ecosystem

Your organization does not operate in a vacuum. Establishing the elements of the ecosystem you operate in, or the need to change that ecosystem, will guide your future endevours and inform your decisions.

Culture

A need to balance creativity and discipline is key to establishing a culture that is optimized for both idea generation and execution. Where does one end and the other begin? It’s actually a continuum.

Capabilities

Of course you have capabilities. But do you need to refresh them? Develop new ones? Acquire them? Are your current suppliers able to provide the ones you need?

Incentives

There are positives and negatives to incentivizing innovation. You need to determine what is appropriate for you and if a mix of financial and non-financial incentives will work without detracting from current plans.

Trends

Trends will potentially have massive impact on your organization. You need to identify the ones that are relevant. Some are obvious and others are not. Spotting the non-obvious ones is much harder.

Forecasting

Predicting the future is difficult. Predicting the distant future even more so. Learn to improve your forecasting of both internal and external events that may have a large impact to your organization.

Opportunities

How do you surface ideas, document them and decide what information you need to collect in order to support your decision making? This components help you create that structure.

Filtering

Decide what to pursue, what to abandon and what to postpone using a structured decision making process that is clearly defined. But allow for degrees of autonomy.

Protection

Some opportunities, or ideas, may be obvious to many once exposed. Others will need stringent intellectual property protections. Determine which and how to protect them.

Execution

Execution will make your opportunities real. Execution requires discipline and also experimentation. Learn to fail and recover. Make sure your organization has the capacity to deliver flawless execution.

Measurement

Every component of the framework has its own sets of measurements. This is an overall process for maintaining them, changing them if needed, and providing updates to your assessments.

Our Solutions

Workshops: Plan Creation

A series of workshops, delivered over 5 days, are used to clearly explain the Continuous Innovation Framework and workbooks are used to detail the plan so that your team can own and implement the framework, its application and use.

Implementation

Your team will be ready to implement and use the Continuous Innovation Framework after the workshops. But if you feel you need more support our consultants can manage the project or program to get you to maximize the value of your plan.

Ongoing Coaching

Even the best athletes need a coach. The most innovative teams also need some. Our coaches can set up a schedule of sessions to regularly provide feedback, knowledge and reporting on your team’s innovation processes and use of the Continuous Innovation Framework.

The Workshops

Setting up your team for success

Through a series of workshops your team will learn the Continuous Innovation Framework and will build an implementation plan as well as an ongoing operating model. The plan and model contain the iterations needed to keep the framework active and refreshed.

And because your team will have full understanding of the framework and have built the implementation plan and operating model, they will own it.

Our precise approach can have your team build the plan and operating model in as little as five days. Yes, 5 days!

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Innovation Unknown Inc.

Innovation Unknown is a global consultancy that delivers a suite of services geared to institutionalizing innovation in organizations that value the relationship between innovation and performance gains.