Agile Innovation: The Revolutionary Approach to Accelerate Success, Inspire Engagement, and Ignite Creativity

Part IIManaging Innovation for Tomorrow

Agile Innovation is both a rigorous discipline and a pervasive and empowering mind-set. It also proactively addresses twin uncertainties: those inherent in the changing external world, and those inherent in the innovation process itself.

As a pathway that leads to mastery of a new philosophy of innovation in business, Agile Innovation fulfills the three essential performance dimensions that are central to all innovation efforts:

1. It significantly accelerates the innovation process, bringing positive results more quickly than would otherwise occur. Speed matters, and Agile Innovation provides a significant speed advantage.
2. It decreases risks of the innovation effort. Risk is a huge issue and obstacle, and Agile Innovation reduces it.
3. It engages the entire organization, tapping into the very best ideas and evoking the creative spirit that is present in people serving in every role and every corner, thus building the innovation culture in a deep and enduring way. Innovation thrives best when there's strong input from many people not just for the sake of quantity, but more importantly because they do create high-quality and meaningful ideas, and they share them. Agile Innovation inspires, enables, and empowers creativity and sharing.

These are ambitious objectives, and they're enormously challenging. Any organization that achieves them rapidly ...