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Two Questions to Ask Before You Set Up an Innovation Unit

Harvard Business Review

The seven roles for CIUs are: designing shelter for innovation; supporting best practices and methods; developing skills; supporting business unit initiatives; identifying new market spaces; facilitating ideas generation; and directing seed funding. following a traditional stage-gate process).

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What Big Companies Get Wrong About Innovation Metrics

Harvard Business Review

The five most commonly used metrics were: Revenue generated by new products. Stage-gate specific metrics, i.e. projects moving from one. stage to the next. Number of ideas generated. Number of projects in the innovation pipeline. P&L impact or other financial impact.

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Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo

Harvard Business Review

Rational-experimental problem solving was built around a series of stages, each leading up to the identification of a solution. Likewise, design thinking is generally described as being made up of modes, stepping stones in the design process, with each mode reflecting a different aspect of design thinking.