Managed Innovation

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Comment by Niels van der Zeyst on December 9, 2008 at 7:04pm

hmm, havent really posted here as I should have. Managed Inovation is now live in NL, we're running it quite succesfully and ideas are flowing on diverse topics such as internal process improvements, suggestions for increased tax benefits for Capgemini employees and not too forget Service offerings... smart labeling, green IT, social networking, you name it. We are currently discsussing to see how we can expland the idea further... any suggestions for funcionality?

Comment by Stacey Vail on October 8, 2008 at 7:48pm

From the description, it sounds like the goal here is to enable "open" flowing of work, ideas, etc. within a managed structure. This is an organizational idea that fits beautifully between the IT and KM organizations.

I propose that we evolve a CKO structure to mirror our CTO structure and leverage an emerging technologies task force/managed innovation team to work in collaboration with both groups. The CKO structure can focus on expansion within the KM world, targeting KM benefits and measures like performance improvement, competitive advantage, developmental processes, knowledge sharing, and collaboration. The CTO structure can focus on the technology, and the emerging technologies/managed innovation team can focus on leveraging the ideas from both sides to design solutions for our use as well as for our clients. The benefit of a task force structure would be that we can include representatives from the various service lines and sectors without creating a whole new formal organization (no immediate need for budget or champions to create a new organization).

As for measures... measuring the types of solutions we've proposed could be cumbersome but is necessary to demonstrate success. Measuring innovation itself may be a bit more tricky. It would make a great ASE-type topic. : )

Comment by Hugh Tonks on July 10, 2008 at 10:22am

Could we please have some more details as to what this approach entails?