Gijs van Wulfen skriver på Innovationmanagement.se:
Mini new business cases tackle the critical uncertainties during the ideation phase so that your idea makes the best first impression to the board. Gijs van Wulfen explains how.
The fuzzy front end of innovation confronts you with a lot of questions. In my new book ‘Creating innovative Products and Services’ I try to solve them with the FORTH innovation method.
You can only present an idea for the first time, once! So when you have the chance to present it to your board, be aware of the fact that a new product idea is not only ‘a creative product’ but also must comply to all the regular business criteria of your organisation too. Does it have (extra) turnover potential? Does it have profit potential? Does it fit into the company’s strategy? And of course, the ‘Bob the builder’ question: Can we make it? These questions must all be answered, as far as possible, during the ideation phase of the innovation process. A common way, in management practice is the business case, where I then choose a mini variant, which complies with all uncertainties in the earliest phase of the innovation pipeline: the mini new business case.
The innovative product or service concept plays the leading role in the mini new business case, of course. The purpose of this case is to substantiate, in a businesslike and convincing manner, to what degree and for what reason the product concept can meet the set criteria.
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Posted on 15/09/2011
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