INNOVATION
&
TRANSFORMATION
Benefit from our expertise to smoothen your innovation or business transformation projects
In a highly competitive and ever-changing market, all companies seek to evolve to remain competitive via innovation or transformation (sometimes both).
Innovation is often the first choice because it stimulates team motivation within companies. Additionally, it challenges them to be more resourceful and creative to deliver new products or services.
Often seen as a source of anxiety for employees, business transformation is first and foremost an opportunity to work more efficiently thanks to organizational or managerial changes (that can include new business processes or even information systems).
And that is where the rubber meets the road…
Innovation
Many innovation projects do not come to fruition because they fail to cross the “valley of death”: it is a pitfall encountered by companies that managed to turn an idea into a prototype, but then fail to convert it into an industrial product.
This phenomenon is often commonly explained by an unbalanced relationship between creativity and rigor in project management.
Innovation requires creativity, lateral thinking or integration of new technologies and still, that is not enough. To successfully industrialize a new concept also demands the compliance with legal requirements, manufacturing constraints and reliability.
Therefore, this permanent duality between creativity and rigor requires specific project management skills.
For your innovation projects, Axones Consulting can assist you in:
- Leading creativity sessions
- Bringing methods for structured innovating projects
- Building up your project teams and developing an industrial partnership
- Leading collaborative projects
- Defining KPIs to assess an innovation.
Transformation
Business transformation usually faces two recurring problems: the ivory tower syndrome and resistance to change.
The ivory tower syndrome refers to the gap between management and employees, while resistance to change is a natural and unavoidable reaction, regardless of the merits of the project.
A successful transformation project goes through 4 stages:
ACCEPTANCE
First, employees need to become aware there is a need for change by analyzing existing problems and their impact on the company.
Employees will then search for all viable solutions. This phase is twofold essential: not only will it reinforce their involvement, but it will also impact positively on their motivation.
EXPLORATION
EXPLORATION
Employees will then search for all viable solutions. This phase is twofold essential: not only will it reinforce their involvement, but it will also impact positively on their motivation.
EXPERIMENTATION
Via the “test and learn” approach, employees will be able to test the ideas found in the previous stage and learn from them when the results are unsatisfactory.
The transformation project finally concludes with the natural integration of new ideas, all thanks to the involvement of employees.
INTEGRATION
INTEGRATION
The transformation project finally concludes with the natural integration of new ideas, all thanks to the involvement of employees.
For your transformation projects, Axones Consulting puts its experience in quality and operational excellence at your service to:
- Define your needs as precisely as possible
- Facilitate the implementation of a solution (and its extensibility)
Achievements
For further details, have a look at "Our achievements”.
