Innovation Communities

Individuals and groups within and across most organisations need to connect and communicate more openly, easily and effectively. From there, they need to work together more closely and efficiently on improving ways of doing things (operational improvements) and on improving ways in which services are delivered (service innovations).

Faced with real budget cuts, today's healthcare for example, must deliver more and better services for less.

Achieving this requires innovation to be installed throughout the organisation through approaches that increase engagement, knowledge-sharing and cooperation.

We help define, build and manage innovation communities where all employees are systematically engaged in raising challenges, offering ideas, enriching these to shape solutions and then working together to implement the resulting innovations and improvements.

Innovation communities work best when there is

• An urgent and important need for many stakeholders and participants with a common focus of interest, but with many fragmented responsibilities and agendas, to work together to shape, manage or implement an episodic challenge, or
• A strong desire to create and sustain communities of practice where professionals from like- and related disciplines can move beyond discussion to identify, then mobilise to address, shared challenges by sharing best practice, knowledge and experience