This is the overall commitment to creating innovative products:
Systemic Thinking
A management discipline that is concerned with the understanding ability of a system by examining the links and interactions between the components that comprise the entirety of that defined system.
Design Thinking
A human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer’s mindset to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business success
Innovation Theory
A theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread.
Step 1:
Employees need to be able to adequately complete the responsibilities expected of them, therefore Vida will need to hire talented people and provide them with adequate resources in order to be, and remain, innovative. Innovating the work environment is an appropriate way to promote a company’s commitment to effort and retention, but doing just that is not sufficient enough to produce the desired results, they need to also provide time for innovation activities.
If this step is successfully implemented, it will be ensured that the Vida is ready to comprehensively address what is missing in their continuous improvement efforts.
Step 2:
Vida needs to provide infrastructure as it is necessary to support systematic innovation. The senior leadership of Vida must commit to, and support, these efforts completely. Systematic innovation needs to be integrated with the organization’s strategic plans and this integration needs to be communicated throughout the organization.
- Vida must adhere to deployment goals and objectives which are then tied to incentives.
- The performance criteria of Vida must be connected to deployment performance metrics.
- The senior leadership of Vida must be trained for awareness and understanding of reasonable expectations.
- Metrics for tracking innovation performance need to be established, along with a corresponding tracking and response system.
- A system of communicating the innovation effort needs to be developed.
- Open system techniques must be available for practitioners.
- Problem definition techniques must be integrated with typical methods.
- Ideal solution identification must be part of goal setting.
- Systematic innovation must replace a strong reliance on brainstorming techniques.
If the initiatives of this step are successfully adopted and as well as those within step 1, Vida will be adequately prepared for the most effective implementation of the final phase.
Step 3:
Establishing the talent present and operating conditions that exist during the first phase is crucial to enhance the deployment.
In the second phase, infrastructure development ensures that the results of the deployment can be institutionalized and the program implemented by Vida will be self-sustaining. Phase two also helps to align the deployment with the Vida’s strategy.
Phase Three enables the Vida innovation ratio to be increased in all areas. The employees’ abilities to innovate will be increased as they are exposed to the program. Therefore, problem solving becomes a transparent; open and collaborative process with predictable and repeatable results. Developing future products and services becomes systematic and multi-generational portfolios will be established during innovation activities.
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