Management - New solutions to new problems.

The Silicon Valley Innovation Institute addresses a situation that has never existed before. Innovation is emerging as a goal and commitment of many new competitors in our "flattened world". More rapid adaptation is now essential for growth-oriented businesses to sustain. The Global Value Chain has become a business tsunami that will sweep away all enterprises that are not prepared to embrace, and even welcome change.

The only viable, sustainable response is improving the ability to manage innovation. This is not the same thing as increasing creativity. Paradoxically, creativity can quickly drain an organization if not managed to generate value. There is no shortage of new ideas: there is a shortage of innovation-driven executives able to harvest them.

SVII promulgates a specific solution to this dilemma .. a commitment to managing innovation as a core competency.

Managing Innovation

SVII can work with your organizations management to not only generate or reinforce an Innovation Culture, but to actually take on specific innovation issues. For example perhaps a department has not come up with and implemented a new idea in the last five years, or developed any strategic relationships outside their immediate group (either internally or externally). SVII can directly address these situations with experts who have been doing just these things for decades.

Tolerating Innovation

SVII assumes that there is significant innovation potential within your organization and that at times it may be inhibited by circumstances that have accidentally evolved over a long period of time. There are ways to diffuse this impasse which can generate enormous opportunity and retention costs. If the most creative people are driven away because no one had the skill to harvest their ideas someone else will find a way to take advantage of those insights. The single largest factor in managing creative people is self esteem. One needs to be quite unusually secure to deal with the unknown every day. At times it has seemed easier to eliminate it.

A Solution

Have SVII develop a custom solution for your innovation roadblocks. Our principals and affiliates have helped many of the Global 2000.