Leadership Plan Generator: Measuring Innovation
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Leadership Innovation requires a vision that is both adaptive to changes and opportunities in the environment but also able to lead the industry in delivering products, services, and features that dazzle customers. Leading an industry requires competencies and skills to both establish new industry standards as well as envision the next stage of products & services. Key performance indicators are needed to evaluate the business’ ability to execute these competencies and assets, drive leadership innovation, and confirm outcomes are achieved.
Continual scanning of the business’ external & internal environments for opportunities is one way to identify opportunities for innovation.
Tracking key performance indicators (KPI) is also crucial to evaluating the business’ health and sustainability.
The business scorecard represents a methodology that can be used for individual projects as well as the larger enterprise system in which your business functions.
Financial Metrics Plan
- Number of New Ideas
- Quality of Ideas
- Effective Implementation of Quality Ideas
- Achievement of Desired Outcomes
The key performance indicators, and business domains, tracked with your business scorecard is determined by the businesses’ planning documents. Identifying these key performance indicators (KPI’s) is often the responsibility of the executive team but should also take into consideration feedback from representatives of other stakeholder groups, and market trends that will influence your industry and market niche.
A Business Scorecard Approach often identifies and tracks financial, customer, internal processes, and learning & growth (Values Based Management, 2016) but can also be used to identify and track other key performance indicators. The business domain, and sub-metrics tracked, will depend on the business’ industry and market niche as well as its goals.
Whether your business seeks to achieve classical (incumbent, captured market) objectives or be adaptive, visionary, or innovative (Ohr, April 25th, 2016) the business scorecard approach can help with monitoring the performance of your innovation plan.
OVERVIEW OF THE LEADERSHIP INNOVATION PLAN GENERATOR
The Leadership Innovation Plan Generator includes the following steps (and strategic planning components) listed below. Additional tools, resources, and options are available to members. Feel free to contact us with additional questions at Consulting@innovatevancouver.org
Defining Leadership
The concepts of leadership and management are explored. Model users have often acknowledged the challenges of applying academic models within the business environment.
The resulting insights have helped the industry recognize the influence that overtly rigid models have on expectations, and the business environment’s design; the results are often unsatisfactory despite the often normative and lofty goals/values espoused by the models.
Leadership Development Framework
Tools to build out your leadership development framework are explored. System’s complexity results from the interdependence of its parts. Each part of the system has the ability to impact and ease change across, and within, other areas of the system.
The result is that the impact of one action, or choice, on the system can become lost as the inter-dependencies increase. This can make it difficult to resolve issues in systems performance as the cause and effect relationships across the system are non-linear.
Leadership Development Plan
Develop your leadership development plan. Innovation drives what goals are identified in the innovation plan. The goals are quantified and translated into quantitative & qualitatiave terms. Business reporting then seeks to evaluate the implementation and thus success of the strategy.
Strategy seeks to achieve the innovation goals. The process, strategies, and resources leveraged to realize these innovative products/services require a firm (operations) foundation that is aligned with the company’s competitive advantages. A lack of integration almost guarantees the company’s competitive advantages (and thus customers, revenue, etc.) will be lost.
Leadership Innovation Planning Components
The following accordion lists the components included in the leadership innovation plan. Click on each step to learn more.
Business Overview
The business overview section is intended to give the reader, coworkers, potential investor, or future business partner a glimpse into the purposes, structure, and mission of your company. This information helps the reader of the strategic plan to better understand the context and industry of the following sections.
Sales & Marketing Plan
The sales and marketing plan establishes who your customers are, how they will be reached, and the value proposition of your product/ service offerings. Without these channels, and a thorough understanding of what problem is being solved by your company’s product/ service, there is very little chance that your business will be able to thrive.
Human Resources Plan
Human resource assets drive value throughout the business model. Without effective human resource assets the performance in other areas would deteriorate and undermine the business. These areas include technical operations, financial, distribution & logistics, marketing & sales, services, and research & development.
Establishing a human resource plan supports the business’ recruitment efforts, training goals, supports the strategic vision, and provides opportunities for business model alignment, strengthening, and innovation.
Action Plan
The action plan incorporates the information from earlier sections to establish what goals are in place, what strategies will be used to deliver these goals, and support performance evaluation. How goals are evaluated varies depending on the business and its priorities
Executive Summary
The executive summary section provides a high level overview of the business environment, builds upon the business overview section (mission, values, and business structure) and describes the product/ service offerings, customer categories, and a high level review of the business’ goals detailed in the previous section. Your team may choose to leave the summary (here) at the end of the planning document or attach it to the business overview section at the beginning of the plan.
Financials Plan
The financials plan establishes how financial and physical assets are allocated and used. The story that these numbers help provide highlights the mission, values, and direction of the business over the coming term. Although the numbers can seem intimidating to many using them to drive value across the business environment is as simple as understanding the story they tell.
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Travis Barker, MPA GCPM
Innovate Vancouver
Consulting@innovatevancouver.org
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Resources:
Balanced Scorecard. (2016). Retrieved April 27, 2016, from http://www.valuebasedmanagement.net/methods_balancedscorecard.html
How Do I Measure Innovation? (2011). Retrieved April 27, 2016, from http://www.balancedscorecard.org/portals/0/pdf/howtomeasureinnovation.pdf
Jackson, T. (2015, March 05). 18 Key Performance Indicator Examples Defined. Retrieved April 27, 2016, from https://www.clearpointstrategy.com/18-key-performance-indicators/
Ohr, R. (2016, April 25). Key Innovation Issues for the Near Future – Part 1. Retrieved April 27, 2016, from http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2016/04/25/key-innovation-issues-for-the-near-future-–-part-1/