Ever think that technology can’t possibly continue to change at this pace, that innovation is coming at you through the business end of a firehose? It can be tough to catch your breath, much less keep your mind wrapped around your primary business. It can seem like all you can hope to do is try and keep up. And yet you have to manage it, and like all things that should be managed, innovation must be measured and replicable to ensure predictable and dependable results. At the same time, though, the systems put in place to manage the necessary innovations must be agile enough to respond to the ever-increasing pace of change.
Tom Brazil, our very own Chief Digital and Innovation Officer, has literally written the book on managing agile innovation systems. As you might expect, it’s entitled Implementing an Agile Innovation Management System, 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. More than simply a how-to, 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, we wrote the book on it. Well, Tom did, but you get the point.
