When teams are primarily focused on delivery, they often lack the time and know-how to explore and experiment new ideas for business growth. The Innovation Accelerator offers a structured framework to:
The Innovation Accelerator is designed to operate with limited resources and seamlessly integrate into any existing Agile Product Delivery process or Innovation Framework.
The Innovation Accelerator's core principle is to identify key growth opportunities and establish a sustainable cycle of experimentation. This leads to a validated portfolio of new features, products, or business models, driving innovation and growth.
The cornerstone of the Innovation Accelerator's success is your teams' active involvement. While our expert consultants will provide comprehensive guidance, facilitation, and resources, it is your team's engagement in learning and applying new work methods that will generate innovative solutions.
Commit
Secure commitment from business units and sponsors, and set clear goals for business and innovation impact.
Explore
Engage business stakeholders and leadership to identify opportunities that align with their priorities and business goals.
Experiment
Validate value propositions with customer feedback, collect fresh insights and iterate - all in short, focused cycles of time-boxed creative autonomy.
Exploit
Present validated solutions to sponsors and business units to move them into the next phases of implementation, scale-up and delivery.
Kick-off and Setup
This initial step involves identifying sponsors, key decision-makers, and stakeholders. We'll align on the process and outcomes, selecting which business units will participate/ benefit from the Innovation Accelerator. An essential part of this stage is setting the experimentation cadence for the year-long program, ideally at least one innovative concept per quarter to maintain momentum.
Explore
In this phase, we'll conduct a Problem Framing workshop with your stakeholders to understand their priorities and business goals. This helps in pinpointing growth opportunities that align with these objectives. Subsequently, cross-functional expert teams will address these opportunities through experiments (design sprints), validating potential solutions.
Experiment
In this phase, our facilitators guide the formation of cross-functional teams to address identified opportunities using design sprints. This time-boxed approach brings together experts from your teams with diverse expertise and perspectives, fostering collaborative problem-solving. The outcome is a tangible, customer-validated prototype and new insights/learnings to inform next steps.
Exploit
This final phase focuses on leveraging the results from the experiments (design sprints). With customer-validated prototypes in hand, it's time to reconnect with sponsors to plan the implementation and execution of these new, innovative concepts.
