What we do to make your innovations work

Innovation is as diverse as it is important. Understanding the fundamentals of innovation in the context of your organization, your current ecosystem and your business model can help you take the necessary decisions instead of just taking the right decisions. Incorporating circularity in the initial decision making creates additional leverage and impact.

The need to change your business model can come from market conditions, competition, customers, required growth or your organization entering a next phase in its lifecycle. Potential substitutes or disruptive innovations might trigger this even more. Knowing when to maintain and when to change your business model for (parts) of your business by spotting trends way ahead of the rest and knowing how to react should be a core competence of your organization. Incorporating circularity into your business model adds to its longevity and future-proofness.

Both innovation champions and innovation supporting shared services can be instrumental in helping circular innovations succeed. Finding and deploying these both internally and externally requires a specific approach and an already established external network.

An innovation team can temporarily benefit from outside assistance to bring in additional expertise, add scarce human resources or balance a team out in the mix of skills and personalities. In specific cases an innovation might also benefit from interim management implementing the essentials of the innovation process. In all cases the aim should be to limit the time spend by external people and to pass on as much knowledge as possible to the in-house staff.