Create more value from innovation.
Established companies often allocate more than 90% of their innovation spend to incremental innovation. By raising the bar when comes to radicality, most organizations can get more value from their innovation efforts.
Our mission is to help organizations create more value from innovation. Innoproach has the experience, partners, tools and network to help you make it happen. We know what it takes and we have done it.
Innoproach is a Swedish company with an international partner network. The company is founded and lead by Fredrik Wiik.
Detect and organize your innovation talents.
When building up an innovation capability it is crucial to understand and evolve your employees innovation skills. Often innovation teams are put together based on the required specialist skills, and some non obvious skills needed to make the innovation effort succeed are not fully considered.
Our partner Swarm Vision from California has evolved a solution for large organizations to drive rapid growth, with the employees you already have. Organizations like W.L Gore, Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson and US NAVY are already benefiting from the predictive power of Swarm Visions solution. The first pilot activities have been done in the Nordic regions.
Innoproach is Swarm Visions Nordic partner and if you want to know more we recommend you to watch this video as a start. If it sounds interesting, please contact us so we can discuss how to best apply it and get started in your organization. Maybe you also want to run a pilot to get some hands-on experience?
An innovaton training where you are innovating.
The Swarm Innovation Training builds as a second wave on the profiler, which is the tool you use to detect the innovation skills in your employees. To make the training effecient for large organizations the training is designed for remote learning. To make the training flow and make cross pollination happen, employees are guided and supported through the five modules in cohorts. The approach works extremely well also under the Corona limitations we are all facing now!
What triggered development of this training was early adopters that wanted to evolve the 8 Swarm skills in their workforce. It was concluded that the best way to evolve these skills is to actually innovate. This means that the employees that takes the training on top of improving their innovations score by 10-20%, create thought through innovation proposals your organization can take further. The training evolves your innovation portfolio with new quality proposals!
Track and drive your innovation culture.
Swarm Innovation Culture is a new new tool which assesses the degree to which your organization supports the eight Innovation skills in its people. The dashboards give you an overview that makes it easier to follow up and take actions to reach your wanted position when comes to innovation culture.
This tool also helps you assess your innovation system. The assessment is based on a literature walkthrough and ISO 56002 with one unique addition from Silicon Valley – scale thinking!
Recycle inventive principles with iTRIZ.
By utilizing principles and patterns that have been successfully applied to invent in various fields, solutions emerges that are often beyond your own organizations imagination or knowledge.
Our US based partner Ideation International has over the decades harvested patent databases for principles, patterns and development lines and categorized it all. The systematic methodology is backed up with a modern tool kit which together can help you find inventive solutions for your organization.
If you have an important problem you have not been able to solve; let us put our iTRIZexperts to the test!
Map your alternatives with Directed Evolution.
Directed Evolution is a a very structured process for analyzing and evaluating a system from a technological and a market point of view. As the picture shows the analysis includes the supersystem the system operates within. In the car example the super system will cover aspects such as access to fuel and electricity and the traffic system with its regulations.
Once the current system is defined a comprehensive set of possible scenarios for future evolution can be evolved. This is a thought process that is supported by 400 typical development lines that has been extracted from historical patterns of development. The analysis gives you a great overview on how the future will unfold and it becomes easier to take the right strategic decisions.
This methodology is very effective but it takes training to master. We only run these projects together with Ideations most experienced masters.
Let innovation be part of the management system.
Already 1946 Marcus “Dodde” Wallenberg stated “To move from the old to what is about to come is the only tradition worth keeping”.
It took 73 years until the first international management system standard was published with focus on this important aspect. The new ISO 56000 series can give you guidance on how to evolve your management system to make the organization more future proof.
Benefit from the insights we got from working as experts on the international team working on the ISO 56000 series. Don´t be too scared – the standard does not force you to run innovation in a certain way.
Challange us!
To help organizations get more value from innovation was the reason for starting Innoproach. The methods and approaches described above are key components in our offerings, but the professional services around them are often what makes it successful.
Don´t hesitate to reach out for a discussion on your challanges. We can help out in more ways than described on this page; either with own resources or with help from some experts in our broad network.