Silicon Valley Inside: Doing it right. Getting there fast.

EDG has combined its learnings from Silicon Valley and from clients around the world to create a powerful and integrated innovation system called Qandu ("Can Do"). Qandu brings together future strategy with innovation best practices, training, tools, and leadership. Our 3-phase approach to implementation delivers proof points and results early on. The overall approach produces deep and lasting transformation that ensures continuous and effective innovation over the long run. Get the "Can Do" spirit!

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  Phase: 1
  After exploring emerging trends, customer needs, and identifying significant market opportunities: • The leadership team defines its vision and strategy for the future. They create an Innovation Blueprint that sets direction, priorities, and the overall tone for the effort. • Leaders charter a committed Innovation Support Team to coordinate the innovation practices, tools and platforms that will guide the next phases of innovation. • Innovators embrace a new mindset and learn new skills. • Initial “Beacon Projects” are launched — early initiatives that visibly demonstrate successful innovation and show what is possible.
  Innovate Early
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  Phase: 2
  Innovate Often
  Leaders and the Innovation Support Team work together to install a simple and straightforward — and widely understood — innovation architecture. • The innovation architecture is put in place to enable innovators to create high-impact ideas; gather collaborative and expert feedback; turn ideas into powerful value propositions; pitch for approval and resources; and develop these into prototypes, pilots, and new projects. (And if you ask innovators throughout the enterprise how this innovation process works, they all could describe it to you.) • Executives and managers throughout the enterprise develop their roles as innovation leaders, mentors, and internal “venture capitalists."
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  Phase: 3
  Innovate Everywhere
  With the success of the early innovations comes an authentic sense of possibility everywhere in the enterprise and the motivation and confidence to realize its full potential — to become a leader in its field or industry. • Leaders throughout the enterprise participate in launching strategic innovation challenges and in nurturing innovation projects. • Key functions such as Finance, HR, IT, Legal or Marketing align their practices, remove barriers, and accelerate the develop- ment of an unencumbered system-wide innovation capability. • The end result is a powerful and collaborative ecosystem where innovation thrives bottom-up and top-down, inside-out and outside-in (e.g., with customers, start-ups, universities).