Our expert innovation capability development services show you how.
Innovation capability development is a critical component of creating and sustaining a successful business. But taking an impulsive approach to innovation often leads to minimal traction, wasted resources and poor performance.
When your capital and time are limited, aligning your innovation efforts with your business mission, strategy and vision are vital if you want your investment to bear fruit.
Well-developed and executed business strategies and management practices are essential to effective innovation. Without them, your efforts can lead you away from your goals, curtailing innovation efforts and jeopardising precious resources.
Mindset training helps overcome limiting beliefs and encourage everyone in your business to adopt a growth mindset.
Knowing why your business exists and being clear about its deeper purpose helps you determine your direction and motivate your team.
Establish a challenging, crystal-clear vision of the future to align efforts where they count and inspire your team’s performance and resilience.
Communicate your purpose, vision and strategy with your team at every opportunity.
Develop and implement sound business and innovation strategies that realise your business vision.
Lead the way and secure the right talent – promote learning, creativity, collaboration and openness to new ideas to fuel your innovation efforts.
Implement the right processes and procedures to help you search, select, implement and capture new value from your innovation efforts.
Measure performance, celebrate wins and share failures to build trust, learn and encourage your team to take risks required to create the future!
Our innovation capability development services take the mystery out of innovation, embedding it in your business and driving long-term growth and success.
We’ll show you how to generate the income you need today while engaging in the projects that will provide tomorrow’s income and the business models of the future.
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Innovation = Creativity + Commercialisation
Innovation is a process that involves applying creativity, knowledge and ideas in ways that generate value (something that makes someone’s life better). In the context of a business, something that can be provided at a profit. This requires an understanding of the creative processes that generate new and useful ideas, as well as the ability to marshal the resources and capabilities needed to turn those ideas into a commercial reality.
The types of business innovation can be categorised into:
Innovation is the only activity that prevents your competitive advantage from eroding amid changes in the business environment and your competitors’ actions. Nevertheless, business owners often succumb to the daily grind of ‘putting out fires’ and ‘bringing home the bacon’, failing to recognise the need for innovation or neglecting to devote the necessary focus and resources to it. If you are looking to move beyond survival to grow your business and maximise your wealth, building your innovation capability is essential.
An innovation strategy is the set of choices you make and actions you take to create new value, commercialise it, and, in turn, sustain competitive advantage and achieve your business mission and vision.
Yes. The first step to effective innovation is to know where it’s most needed to achieve the business goals. This means your innovation strategy must be constructed on a sound business strategy; otherwise, you risk ad hoc, unfocused innovation that wastes resources and threatens the future of your innovation activity.
Yes and this trend is accelerating and will continue to bring a great deal of complexity, uncertainty and competitive pressure to bear. Ongoing commercial success depends not only on your ability to innovate, but increasingly on the speed of innovation.
Ongoing innovation is a learning process that involves searching, selecting, implementing, and capturing value from knowledge and ideas. It involves generating many ideas, followed by an elimination process that is typically experimentation or trial-and-error-based. Ultimately, the elimination process narrows the options for further development and refinement until the idea emerges as a practical, valuable solution. Accordingly, innovation involves learning from failure (preferably quickly and cheaply) to generate ideas, create knowledge, and capture commercial value.
Those who approach innovation impulsively typically establish little traction, waste resources, fail to develop the requisite skills, and perform poorly. Innovation can be costly, especially if misguided or poorly executed. Fortunately, innovation is a field of business management that’s evolving rapidly; with the right support, it can be effectively managed and developed into a core business function, becoming a source of enduring competitive advantage and long-term success.
Depending on how far you are along on the innovation journey, this involves:
Yes. Fortitude helps you select projects that align with your business strategy, resources and capabilities, while also pushing your innovation capability boundaries in idea generation and selection, solution development, and commercialisation.
Fortitude takes you through the entire process in building the necessary environment, systems, procedures, and routines—ensuring you can capture new value and sustain innovation over time. We are just a phone call away at every step.