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Navigating Innovation provides pragmatic advice on pursuing innovation in large organisations. Wherever you are on the innovation journey, Erica Haddon is uniquely equipped to help you navigate the challenges that come with taking your organisation to the next stage and beyond.

Expert Advice

Depending on where you are on your innovation journey Navigating Innovation can provide advice on the following:
  • Strategy Development
  • Organisational Culture Change
  • Innovation Capability Building
  • Bridge from the current to the future OR
  • Exploring the future
ALTERNATIVELY you may have developed individual pieces but still don't have traction. This is where Navigating Innovation excels, providing expertise on bringing the pieces together and delivering real change for your organisation. Contact Navigating Innovation today for a DIAGNOSTIC on your innovation journey.

The problems to solve

Whether you are on the board, CEO, an executive champion, a leader driving the change or a leader charged with operating the current business, pursuing innovation brings challenge. Navigating Innovation can help you solve problems illustrated below as well as the many others that will arise on the journey.
  • Our innovation strategy sits ouside everything else
  • No-one seems to see the need for change
  • We don't have any innovation capability in our organisation
  • Our innovation hub is not showing any results
  • Everyone is so busy with today they have no time or interest in exploring tomorrow
  • Our core business seems reluctant to engage at all
  • Our funding always seems to be at risk
  • There is a lot of innovation for the sake of innovation
  • The innovation work doesn't have anything to do with the business we are in

Specific Products

Navigating Innovation operates in an advisory capacity rather than delivering specific products. This is purposeful so that key personnel within the client organisation own the finished product. The judicious use of advice from Navigating Innovation will ensure your organisation will produce artefacts to build on into the future. For example:
  • Innovation strategy and business plan
  • Board and other stakeholder tools
  • Business cases
  • Roadmap for effective organisational culture change
  • Capability building plan
  • Innovation toolkit
  • Innovation hub start plan
  • Governance framework
  • Incubation framework
  • Collaboration and partnership framework
  • Scenario analysis
  • Guiding pathways for your innovation initiatives

Common challenges

For anyone that has started their innovation journey in a mature organisation, variations of the below would be all too familiar. Navigating Innovation can help you resolve these challenges.
  • Board "Executive are not being bold enough, we want them to be innovative and we want them to take some risk."
  • Executive Champion "I am so confused by the board messages: 'deal with culture'; 'just get people innovating'; 'invest in technology start-ups'; 'define where we want to be in the future'; they all want something different."
  • Executive “The board conversations are always around governance and risk which makes it difficult to create a case for something where we don't know the outcome."
  • Senior Managers “I keep getting all of this education about the future and what I have to do differently now but our whole business plan says we have to deliver on KPI’s that have nothing to do with this stuff.”
  • Middle Managers “Everyone keeps telling me to free my people to be more innovative but I still have to deliver on our targets and I need them on the job”
  • Frontline “Some people are doing this really cool stuff at the hub but I have to follow the rules in my day job and do things the same way I have always done them."
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