
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).