Challenge  Our company was looking to address a key challenge experienced by corporates in oru country which is  they all want to be innovative and develop new ideas and solutions to improve business efficiency or  develop new products but no amount of training and skills development has been able to get majority of  the companies to see any significant increase in innovative solution development.

Tool selection and application  The team selected to conduct extensive surveys and interviews of key executive and staff members in  many organization without our capital city. These interviews and surveys generated a large amount of  raw data that required further analysis to identify patterns and trends of internal and external  experiences regarding these challenge areas.

Mind mapping was selected as a tool to conduct analysis on the collected data. Mind mapping assisted  the team to identify patterns such as many corporates had well established processes to identify  innovation opportunities but they experienced a large number of opportunities that were not approved  for piloting. Mind mapping provided a tool to document the insights of interviewees and survey  participants to postulate why there was a high rate of failure or declines. Some of the established trends  included low appetite for risk by internal project managers and high confidence thresholds required  internally to perceive a particular solution as feasible.

Insights Gathered and approach  The outcome of the mind mapping tool was that it was clear to understand that corporates are strong at  identifying unrealized potential opportunities for innovation but the inherent nature or corporate  processes and staff members was a low risk nature as such, there was not enough entrepreneurial risk  taking required to identify potential solutions to proceed for further solutions development. This insight  created the opportunity for our business to conceptualize our service to use open innovation to take  identified gaps and externalize them to have external entrepreneurs develop solutions. On success  these entrepreneurs are able to present back these innovation opportunities to corporates.

An alternative tool that could be used in the subsequent interviews is the pinwheel approach to  determine the reasons for low project acceptance. The wheel petals could be some of the early reasons  identified and they rated how much each identified reason influenced the low success rates. This would  create a probability table of the influence of each factor and enhance the outcomes of the mind  mapping analysis.


Challenge Our company was looking to address a key challenge experienced by corporates in oru country which is they all want to be innovative and develop new ideas and solutions to improve business efficiency or develop new products but no amount of training and skills development has been able to get majority of the companies to see any significant increase in innovative solution development . Tool selection and application The team selected to conduct extensive surveys and interviews of key executive and staff members in many organization without our capital city . These interviews and surveys generated a large amount of raw data that required further analysis to identify patterns and trends of internal and external experiences regarding these challenge areas . Mind mapping was selected as a tool to conduct analysis on the collected data . Mind mapping assisted the team to identify patterns such as many corporates had well established processes to identify innovation opportunities but they experienced a large number of opportunities that were not approved for piloting . Mind mapping provided a tool to document the insights of interviewees and survey participants to postulate why there was a high rate of failure or declines . Some of the established trends included low appetite for risk by internal project managers and high confidence thresholds required internally to perceive a particular solution as feasible . Insights Gathered and approach The outcome of the mind mapping tool was that it was clear to understand that corporates are strong at identifying unrealized potential opportunities for innovation but the inherent nature or corporate processes and staff members was a low risk nature as such , there was not enough entrepreneurial risk taking required to identify potential solutions to proceed for further solutions development . This insight created the opportunity for our business to conceptualize our service to use open innovation to take identified gaps and externalize them to have external entrepreneurs develop solutions . On success these entrepreneurs are able to present back these innovation opportunities to corporates . An alternative tool that could be used in the subsequent interviews is the pinwheel approach to determine the reasons for low project acceptance . The wheel petals could be some of the early reasons identified and they rated how much each identified reason influenced the low success rates . This would create a probability table of the influence of each factor and enhance the outcomes of the mind mapping analysis .