The Covid-19 effect will be studied for years. How did the virus affect business, the workforce, the human capital required to make the changes necessary for keeping products and services at the cutting edge of industry and customer expectations? The answers, when they come, will confirm that innovation is as necessary to the lifeblood of a business as oxygen and water. Even in the best of times, managing that innovation can seem like a daunting task. Like all things that should be managed, innovation must be measured and replicable to ensure predictable and dependable results. The systems put in place to manage the necessary innovations, though, must be agile enough to respond to the ever-increasing pace of change. Think about all this long enough and simply managing innovation could become your full-time job!

Tom Brazil, our very own Chief Digital and Innovation Officer, has literally written the book on managing agile innovation systems, and it draws from the work of Langdon Morris of Innovation Labs. More importantly, Brazil’s new work explores the five key elements of the innovation management master plan—innovation strategy, portfolio, process, culture, and infrastructure—in a way that makes each more approachable as a constituent part of the whole. Brazil’s words and insights stem from years of experience as an IAOIP Certified Chief Innovation Officer and more than 34 years of directing innovation teams and effecting positive digital change across a wide spectrum of industries, including DoD and Fortune 100 companies.

If you have questions or concerns about your innovation management strategies, call ICS. After all, Tom wrote the book on it. It’s entitled Implementing an Agile Innovation Management System, and you should read it today. And then we should talk.