Innovation for ResultsAll organisations, large and small, local and international, need to become increasingly adept at managing in today’s rapidly changing environment driven by globalisation, modern communications, the shrinking of distance.
Companies face unrelenting pressure on all sides. Improvements in operational excellence are a necessary but not exclusive approach to sustainability and growth. As these improvements evolve to their limits, companies need to step-change to revitalise growth from new products, services and ways of doing business. Innovation is essential to sustain and grow all organisations.
Innovation is often a sporadic activity in organisations and thus the management of innovation is often less-than systematic. Innovation, especially the ‘fuzzy front end’, is often viewed as being risky and unpredictable. However, today the case for innovation has never been stronger. Organisations need to develop innovation processes and management skills, just as other business functions have developed regular procedures.
Ideality was established to help companies and organisations become more effective innovators, with new products, product refinements, process and service enhancements, and new, sustainable, business models. Ideality has developed its own unique systematic innovation process, ACTOR®, to achieve innovation results.
ACTOR® delivers through structured tools which engage teams spanning all functions and levels of creativity, and focuses efforts productively towards new solutions. Organisations are thereby empowered, through learning and using the systematic ACTOR® approach, to embed a repeatable innovation process as a part of their normal business activities, reducing risk and increasing creative opportunities.
Ideality brings its ACTOR® systematic approach to ‘front end’ innovation, working with teams in organisations to ‘deep mine’ their locked away knowledge, minimising the risk of ‘false starts’, and achieving bottom-line results rapidly and repeatedly.