Building Innovation Eco-Systems

It’s one thing to take an existing system and improve it, but the kind of innovation that introduces new products and value is not something that happens by chance.  You need the ability to select and assemble processes and invest appropriate resources as the market changes in order to create an “innovation eco-system” that will create great ideas, develop them into valuable “products” and then realise their value to give a return.

         Can you visualize, describe, analyse and improve your current innovation eco-system? 

         Do you have a shared language and a structure on which to frame discussions about innovation?

         Can you support your ideas right through the idea life-cycle to maximize their value?

         Is your innovation process integrated with the business and does it support a continuous pipeline of new ideas?

         Do you truly understand the resource costs of making innovation a success?

Simon and Victor will:

         Examine why future innovation success may be hampered by a lack of agility  and a lock in to past successes

         Show how innovative thinking should be deeply integrated with the core business and not seen as a separate activity

         Present a model for visualizing and designing a radical new innovation eco-system

         Give you a chance to use the model to develop some simple examples

         Explore how to increase your Innovation Velocity and grow your Freedoms to Innovate

Short Biographies

Simon Evans is an experienced. London based consultant specializing in Innovation Leadership and Intranet Strategy.  Together with Victor Newman he started InnovoFlow Ltd in 2008 to assist organizations who wish to improve their innovation leadership.  He has spent much of the last 2 years developing “The Innovation Game” to support this activity.  Prior to this Simon was in the Global Pharmaceutical industry for 18 years in a range of roles in IT and Corporate Communications.  As acreative thinker he has led the development and delivery of many of successful, innovative IT and communications services that allowed the unlocking of real tangible value through the imaginative use of modern technologies.  

Victor has 23 years of management consulting experience, specialising in organisation development, systemic problem solving and innovation. His C-level roles include: Chief Innovation Officer, Milamber Group; Head of Innovation Strategy, Technology Strategy Board (2008/9); CLO Optima and Fifty Lessons. As Pfizer’s Chief Learning Officer (2000-2005), he influenced the Innovation Surge within Global R&D. He is a SILK mentor and inventor of several fast innovation thinking techniques (including Baton Passing, Predator, Reverse Innovation and SRD), a systems thinking practitioner and has recently been applying his “Art of Innovation Leadership” diagnostic with CEO mentoring groups. Victor is Visiting Professor in Knowledge and Innovation Management to several business schools.

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