INNOVATIONTOOLS: G-I

Gantt Chart (A Gantt chart (sometimes called a bar chart) is a simple chart which links activities to be performed with the timing of those activities.It is a key element in project management.

A tool to enable high involvement innovation.  This interactive e-book explains the challenges in moving towards high involvement innovation and contains an assessment tool to chart your journey towards maturity

A tool for establishing levels of high involvement innovation.

A tool for reframing a problem.

This is a simple tool used in policy deployment to check the alignment of innovation projects.

A tool for identifying and building on strengths.

This is a simple tool designed to help focus attention on key areas of innovation management within an organization.  It can be used as a questionnaire survey or as the basis for a structured interview.

Below you’ll find the instrument itself with the key questions and analysis scheme.

Here’s the link to the Innovation Fitness Test itself

There is also an explanation of what low scores mean – and what your organization might do about this.  Click here for this.

This tool provides a structured way of looking at the process for enabling the innovation journey inside organizations

An approach developed by Benoit Gailly and Colleagues at the University of Louvain in Belgium which provides access to the rich body of knowledge about innovation management via an app-based tool.  It breaks the subject down into a series of challenges which can be explored further using connected tools and explanations, and is also accompanied by an excellent series of cartoons illustrating the challenges in humorous fashion.  It is based on the book of the same name; click on the link for more details.

This tool offers a simple reflection on how well key enabling influences on the innovation process  are embedded within the organization

This tool helps explore where new routines might be needed to help cope with changes in the organization's innovation environment

This tool helps explore the range of 'vehicles' needed to enable the innovation journey in a variety of different contexts

One way of exploring how the dynamics of the process work – and of finding ways in which it might be improved – is to explore it by creating and enacting it as a piece of theatre. 

A simple tool for analysing the patterns of innovation within an organization in terms of incremental and radical innovation

Overview of the ISO56000 series standard for innovation management