Glossary

The 4I (Inspire, Ideate, Implement and Impact) approach summarizes the main concepts for the enterprise innovation fostering strategy through the linkage of the innovation fostering people centric approach and the enterprise innovation interactive initiative design canvas spaces. View Related Section

Aims to boost all other spaces. The space includes: infrastructure, methods, tools, platforms & organization structures, policies, processes & leadership. View Related Section

In the Build Phase we focus on increasing the maturing of the selected ideas. Usually ideas enter this phase with a high level, POC- Proof of Concepts, Mock-up or early stage prototype. This phase includes two stages; First stage is the incubation stage in which we focus on developing MVP- Minimum Viable Product Feature and a high level Business Model Design and initial customer validation and feedback. Then another selection is conduction to result to the most competitive ideas. Such selected ideas start a new wave in the life cycle through Acceleration stage. In the Acceleration stage we focus more on a deeper customer validation, feedback, detailed business model design and the development of the pre-commercialized product version. View Related Section

Includes all processes, policies and initiatives that aim to realize and implement the selected ideas from the ideas. It is considered as the realization space or the prototyping space. The output of this space is IPs, published papers, POCs- proof of concepts, mock-ups, simulations and working models. Implementation which realizes ideas in different maturity stages. The desire is to reach a quick customer feedback and validation. View Related Section

A predefined set of questions. Answering those questions helps in defining the business, understanding its nature and directing the audit into the proper directions. Also, we use these questions to guarantee the common understanding of the business between different stakeholders and eliminate the ambiguity as much as possible. View Related Section

Team members who are putting their career on top of their priorities. They want to show off a good career record within the shortest period of time. View Related Section

Aims to open the pipeline with the external world, the creation of different gate keepers. Starting from Academia, suppliers, customers & crowdsourcing. It is considered as open innovation space. View Related Section

Innovation audits are an examination of current innovation practices. Such an understanding allows the management team to have alternative and additional measures and techniques to increase and maximize their innovation capabilities. View Related Section

The enterprise innovation culture fostering is all about how to empower, activate, motivate, educate and engage team members in the enterprise innovation activities. View Related Section

Enterprise innovation initiative VS inventiveness coverage graph is designed to help in mapping the internal initiative or programs to the target population size and expected inventiveness impact. View Related Section

The Innovation Initiatives Interactive Design Canvas represents all the enterprise initiatives into its 6 main spaces. This canvas is used during the enterprise initiatives design to guarantee that the initiatives are covering the different elements, phases, needs and pillars to increase the overall enterprise innovation capabilities and competitiveness. View Related Section

Enterprise Innovation Maturity Canvas represents the 8 enterprise innovation capability audit pillars excluding the competitiveness pillar and it is categorized into three main groups. The first group includes the core pillars, second group includes the support pillar and the last group includes the input pillars which have direct impact on the overall enterprise innovation capability. View Related Section

The enterprise internal maturity canvas, scoring grid provides a visual representation for the overall enterprise innovation capability audit pillars in a single canvas. For each sub pillar based on your designed detailed questionnaire answers you will mark the sub pillar result which will range from 1 to 4. Then for each main pillar you will calculate the average of the sub pillars and mark the scale, then the score of each main pillar is the result of the average of the related sub pillars scales. For each category, you will calculate the average of its related main pillars and mark the scale accordingly. The result will indicate an overall average status of the enterprise innovation capability audit in a single view by which you can be guided to the proper and suitable internal innovation strategy design. View Related Section

The main purpose of this canvas is to prioritize your pillars which will directly impact the decision of setting priority and sequence of launching your internal innovation initiatives. After completing the internal innovation capability audit and represent the resulted status quo using the enterprise internal innovation audit maturity scoring grid, we can now start designing our internal innovation maturity increase strategy to close the identified gaps using the maturity road map canvas. The enterprise internal innovation maturity road-map canvas assumes the 4 main phases of increasing the enterprise innovation capability and maturity based on the S2I2 framework phases. View Related Section

An essential tool to understand the enterprise team members’ motives, needs and readiness. By conducting this exercise the internal innovation initiative designer can guarantee the usage of the proper tool, initiative type and internal readiness of the enterprise. View Related Section

Team members who are very passionate about technology & solving technical challenges. They are very good at the application level. View Related Section

The main focus during the Get Phase, is capturing ideas as much as possible from the various enterprise team members. View Related Section

Includes all processes, policies and initiatives that generate ideas and support the organization ideation process. It is considered as idea production space. The output of this space is ideas that are structured, sorted, analyzed, evaluated and ready to be placed in the organization ideas funnel/pipeline. View Related Section

In the Grow Phase, we are mainly focusing on the commercialization and impact for the most competitive ideas. In this phase we focus on business architecture including business model, revenue model, demand capturing through early adapters identification and acquisition. Also in this stage the focus is more toward scaling, manufacturing readiness, securing value chain and generic growth management strategies. View Related Section

Includes all processes, policies and initiatives that aim to grow the output of the build space and reach the desired impact. It is considered as the acceleration space. The output of this space is MVP- minimum viable product, BD- business model, pre-commercialized version, initial customers acquisition/adoption and/or internal/external fund allocation. View Related Section

The idea funnel life cycle introduces a visual illustration for the ideas' different maturity stages. It also gives an overall view about the different nature of each stage and its related needed activities, maturity, competencies and life cycle management approach. We believe that the successful management of the funnel life cycle is one of the most challenging topics related to enterprise innovation management. View Related Section

For each phase of the ideas funnel we need to plan the appropriate needed investment. The investment needed per phase per idea is directly related to the idea maturity stage level and to the needed activity. View Related Section

The ideas funnel represents, through its three phases, the different activities and thus the different needed innovation organization team competencies and skills set. So we can use the ideas funnel to identify the needed skills and competencies based on the nature of each phase. View Related Section

The cost of a single successful commercialized product = the sum of all investment done for the full funnel with its different stages + the cost of the successful one. So innovation cost of failure impacts directly the overall efficiency and impact of the enterprise innovation performance. This is why we need to have an effective and efficient selection criteria for each phase of the ideas funnel. View Related Section

The definition of the Ideas Funnel is that it represents the ideas through the different stages of maturity. At each phase of the ideas funnel we have a predefined maturity level, starting from having just an idea, which will go through a defined selection process to be moved to the next level, till reaching the highest maturity level of commercialization readiness. For each phase and each maturity level, we need to conduct a specific activity to increase the idea maturity and move it to the next level. The Ideas Funnel, Maturity VS Activity diagram, represent the relation between the activity and maturity for each idea in the funnel. This help us to determine the most suitable activity for each phase. View Related Section

When the human desirability and the technical feasibility intersect, this is when ideation happens and great ideas start to evolve. View Related Section

The intersection between the three elements in the form of intersecting ideation, with inspiration and implementation this is what leads to impact and innovation success. View Related Section

The implement phase/stage of the framework focus on the ideas funnel life cycle management. As ideas management and success rate is one of the main challenges for enterprise internal innovation management, the framework is dedicating this phase specially for proposing different concepts and tools to help in increasing the maturity and effectiveness of this part of the life cycle. View Related Section

The innovation initiative design canvas is a trial to structure, quantify and visualize all the elements needed for the success of the initiative in a single place. It is a tool which can be customized and tailored based on the nature of the initiative and the objectives behind it. The main importance is to guarantee that all elements are covered, considered and planned ahead. View Related Section

When the human desirability and the business viability intersect, this is when inspiration occurs and passion chain reaction starts. View Related Section

The Integrate phase/stage is a strategically important phase. In this phase we have the challenge of internal and external integration of all our process, culture and most importantly our activities and initiatives output. The main challenge of this phase is the diffusion and adoption of our internal innovation activities output. The adoption of the improvement proposals View Related Section

Inactive team members that are lacking the passion for their job and their career. Laggards group are in general disengaged and in many cases desperate. Activating such type of persona is possible but huge effort and investment is needed to achieve re-engagement and activation. View Related Section

Team members who enjoy a wide experience and skills that cover multiple sectors and disciplines. View Related Section

Understanding each target persona motive is very important while designing each and every internal innovation initiative or program. By understanding the motive we will have a better experience design and communication message which will lead to higher engagement level. Enterprise Team Inventiveness Personas are Geeks & Multipotentials, Researchers, Career Advancers, Traditional and Laggards. View Related Section

Explorers with passion for new or novel experiments. They have the capacity to put efforts in new topics that were not previously tackled. View Related Section

Strategize, Standardize, Implement and Integrate View Related Section

Includes all processes, policies and initiatives that inspire & support the ideation seeding process. It is considered as inspiring, preparing, supporting & structuring space. It includes some of the required prerequisites. The output of this space is information, insights, knowledge, expertise, exposure and means of formulating organization internal & external intelligence and road-maps. View Related Section

Is the second phase which starts after strategizing and complete understanding of the current status and desired state that we need to achieve. In this phase we start to design our initiatives to achieve our objectives and goals. The S2I2 Standardize phase/stage is proposing a set of tools and concepts which the enterprise can use to be able to have a full view for the different initiatives, activities and processes needed to achieve the strategic goals. View Related Section

It is the first phase in which we identify the enterprise status quo, innovation readiness, capability and desired enterprise objectives/goals from the overall innovation activities and processes. View Related Section

Team members who consider their job only as an earning potential and wouldn’t exert extraordinary effort. View Related Section