Innovation Driven by Intrapreneurial Employees
Intrapreneur (n)
A manager within a company who promotes innovative product development and marketing
Empower your employees to innovate
by providing them
a platform, skills, processes and
the right tools
Organizations that
have used similar
sprints report finalizing
3 to 4 MVPs by the end of the SPRINT
The sprint is delivered in 9 Modules
This is based on our 9 Stages of Innovation methodology, which is also taught in a leading B School
Kick-off and introduction to Innovation Sprint
Participants are provided the organizational context of innovation and strategic direction. They will be introduced to innovation concepts.
Assignment: Individual teams to identify strategic themes to innovate
Idea Generation
Participants learn about different ways of innovation and reflect on how it is applicable to their themes. They design ideation campaigns to develop initial ideas (prime the pump).
Assignment: Run ideation campaign, collect and review ideas
Validate Customer Problem
Participants learn to analyse customer jobs-to-be-done, and pains and gain their ideas target to improve. They learn to develop hypotheses and how to test them.
Assignment: Develop the customer value canvas, identify hypothesis and test them.
Develop the Market Definition
Participants learn to define the value proposition, identify customer personas, and develop the market definition canvas.
Assignment: Validate the market definition canvas, interview personas and collect data. Use this information to refine ideas.
Develop the Business Model Canvas
Participants refine their value proposition and develop the anticipated Business model canvas. They develop hypotheses and test plans.
Assignment: Carry out testing of hypothesis about business model canvas.
Develop solution morphology
Participants will learn how to develop the solution morphology based on functionality needs. They will learn about prototyping techniques.
Assignment: Develop solution morphology, identify project killers and prove a solution can be developed. A paper prototype will be developed.
Develop low-fidelity prototype
Participants will learn about TRL roadmaps and develop their prototyping strategy. They will design the test strategy for prototypes.
Assignment: Develop low fidelity prototype, test strategy and test with target customers.
Develop MVP
Participants will learn how to test for desirability, feasibility and viability. They will refine the business model canvas (BMC) and prepare an investment case for MVP testing.
Assignment: Prepare the MVP development and testing plan, refine BMC and prepare the investment case for approval.
Understand commercialization and scaling
Participants will learn tasks in commercialization and scaling up of innovation. They will learn strategies for the scale-up phase.
Assignment: Develop roadmap for commercialization and scaling-up
This program will help the organization deliver innovation-led growth and also build capabilities
Help employees come up
with better innovation ideas and develop a business case
Improve their
innovation capabilities
Create a common innovation language
Deliver
3 to 4 validate innovation ideas
Create an entrepreneurial energy in the organization
Help achieve strategic goals