Generate breakthrough ideas

Generate breakthrough ideas and boost business

Spur breakthrough innovation via a project-oriented approach: the I-Nova workshop solution

The situation today

Your Product Innovation Strategy includes themes or programs that have to be dealt with in the near future. Some of them depend on incremental innovation and will be managed according to your New Product Development methodology. Other themes are too disruptive to be managed classically. Obtaining breakthrough innovation within a limited period is a key stake that has to be tackled by group initiatives. A cross-functional team is assigned to capture internal and external knowledge relating to the theme and understand customer needs. Later, it will organize brainstorming sessions to generate raw ideas that will be combined into a limited number of concepts or prototypes ready for development.

Make sure you go out well armed into the strategic arena

So you can:

• Organize efficient teamwork, knowledge-sharing and brainstorming,   
• Facilitate communication between team members working on several sites,    
• Ensure cross-fertilization between upstream projects and correlate findings with ideas,     
• Set-up foresight workshops and shorten lead-times from idea to concept and prototype,
• Save time on searching for existing knowledge (scientific articles, past experience, etc.),
• Manage projects that are too disruptive to be managed classically,   
• Deploy a systematic methodology for seeking innovations likely to win in the strategic arena,   
• Build a project database and an innovation monitoring dashboard.   

This dedicated approach to upstream project management requires a dedicated tool. 

Increasing innovation triggers the changes that lead to success

In addition, I-Nova provides:

• A dedicated environment for sharing knowledge on each solution for managing upstream projects (insight), brainstorming, idea development and review;
• A methodology for increasing the success of upstream reflection and projects;
• Monitoring functions for the corporate innovation team;
• Links with internal customer feedback and scientific databases.