Innovation Services
At New View Innovation we specialize in working the whole way through the product innovation process. We work with businesses to uncover, unlock and create new ideas for additional products and services through The WhiteRoom Experience.
We then evaluate these ideas with research and review through the Innovation Scoping process. An Innovation Pathway is built out following the evaluation to ensure that the project has clear guidelines and direction.
We can then either mentor your team through the process through our Innovation Coaching program or fully execute the project with you and your team with our Innovation Management & Implementation Team.
The WhiteRoom Experience
The WhiteRoom Experience is all about ideation with an outcome orientation. Firstly the ideation session is run as a hands on, practical, innovation idea forum all facilitated by New View Innovation. Many ideas are generated and categorized based on your business strategy. Many stakeholders who believe they are not creative at all are surprised by the simple techniques that allow them to contribute to the overall process that generates these seeds of tomorrow's big ideas.
The outcome generated will be a large number of ideas for your current business sector and new sectors. These ideas will then be overviewed and evaluated to boil them down to the best 3-4 true innovations that can be explored. The WhiteRoom Experience is not only an eye opening experience for all who participate but also a practical first step in new value creation for any company. Contact us today to see how your company can benefit from The WhiteRoom Experience.
Innovation Scoping
Reviewing the viability of any new innovation is a critical step in the innovation process. While no one can predict the future, there are specific methods that can be used to determine the likelihood of development and market success.
Taking the idea to the next step involves reviewing the concept from a number of different perspectives. One of these perspectives is that of the company and the key internal stakeholders. Does this fit with existing company strategy? What types of resources are available to fully develop this? Who will manage this when it is successful? What external resources will be required?
Another perspective is from a business planning point of view. How will success be measured? What is the likelihood of success? What is the potential for revenue and ultimately profitability? Yet another one of these perspectives is that of the Market. What is the market size and potential demand? Who will be interested in this product or service? Why? Scoping the Innovation Project is a key part of what we do at New View Innovation to maximize your opportunity for a successful investment in innovation.
Innovation Pathway
Once the scope of the project has been determined, and all stakeholders agree that there is a good opportunity for success; the next step is to build out an Innovation Pathway. The New View Innovation Pathway is like a business plan in that it takes into account the strategic thinking along with the expense and revenue numbers associated with a new product or service.
Unlike a Business Plan, The New View Innovation Pathway provides flexibility that will be required as the project takes inevitable twists and turns. “What if” variables are evaluated knowing that the project will be moving into uncharted territory. It also outlines a number of options that may or may not be pursued depending on the outcomes at each step of the plan. Finally the pathway builds out a specific timeline of what needs to be achieved as well as success measurements along the way.
Innovation Coaching
Achieving success in innovation, within any organization, is challenging. The most productive people are usually working at maximum capacity and any additional responsibility; much less the complex nature of an innovation project, can seriously derail or postpone the project. Others who have the time, but have never tackled an innovation project need guidance through each stage of the project. The dynamics of any team on an innovation project will require encouragement, review, training, direction and support to achieve the desired results.
Whether it is simply mentoring internal champions or guiding a complete team through the intricate process of innovation, New View Innovation offers innovation coaching to ensure that your project stays on track. Just like a coach, our aim is to ensure the innovation pathway, and ultimately the new product or service, achieve maximum success in real world markets. Our experience and outside perspective is utilized to coach the principals involved through each step of the pathway as well as through any unpredictable events that will inevitably arise.
Innovation Management & Implementation
When a new project appears the tendency is often to give it to successful people within the company. Unfortunately these successful people are often carrying the weight of many other projects, managing very profitable business units and revenue streams. Taking on the management and implementation of yet another project, much less an innovation project can impact existing products, revenues and ultimately lead to the postponement, derailment or even death of the innovation project.
Our team is experienced in both the management and implementation of innovation projects together with the resources allocated from your team. This will ensure you can continue to keep focused on your existing business as it is today; knowing that the future of the business is in experienced hands.
