{"id":144,"date":"2017-05-12T12:27:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T11:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aimtp.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2022-09-16T19:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T18:43:04","slug":"do-you-understand-your-innovation-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aimtp.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Do you understand your innovation engine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: right; padding-left: 60px;\">&#8220;Every organisation needs to understand their innovation engine\u00a0&#8211; and you\u00a0all have one, whether you\u00a0realise it or not &#8230;&#8221;<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-154\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aimtp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/railway-301155_1920-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aimtp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/railway-301155_1920-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aimtp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/railway-301155_1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.aimtp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/railway-301155_1920-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.aimtp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/railway-301155_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do you understand your innovation engine?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Innovation is every organisation&#8217;s engine for being more efficient and productive, for growth, for serving their existing customers better, for attracting new clients and for doing what they do better and better.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Every organisation needs to understand their innovation engine<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; and you\u00a0all have one, whether you\u00a0realise it or not &#8211; and here is a list of questions to ask yourself to help with this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are your innovation engine&#8217;s mechanisms &#8211; funding, roles, divisions, processes, tools and templates?<\/li>\n<li>What fuels your innovation\u00a0engine?<\/li>\n<li>How often is it tuned up and who is the chief tuner or innovation guru?<\/li>\n<li>How do you measure your innovation engine&#8217;s performance?<\/li>\n<li>Do you have a competitive engine and do you actively compete with your rivals in innovation?<\/li>\n<li>How much is\u00a0your innovation engine internally focused and how much is it\u00a0externally focused?<\/li>\n<li>How do you identify innovation opportunities (competitions) to race your engine in?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-155 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aimtp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/jaguar-2111973_1920-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aimtp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/jaguar-2111973_1920-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aimtp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/jaguar-2111973_1920-768x411.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.aimtp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/jaguar-2111973_1920-1024x548.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.aimtp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/jaguar-2111973_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tune up and race your innovation engine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>We can help you to understand and improve your organisation&#8217;s innovation engine by helping to formalise methods, identify opportunities, set up and manage an innovation funnel, pick innovation champions, and run a continuous innovation programme and strategy &#8211; rather than a start\/stop programme with discrete, disconnected projects.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every organisation needs to understand their innovation engine\u00a0&#8211; and you\u00a0all have one, whether you\u00a0realise it or not &#8230;&#8221; Innovation is every organisation&#8217;s engine for being more efficient and productive, for growth, for serving their existing customers better, for attracting new clients and for doing what they do better and better. 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