The Strategyzer Guided Innovation program: an overview

Programs guide your innovation teams and coaches from business idea to business case. This includes coaching instructions, run sheets, and guided experiments. Program materials include workshop slides, e-learning library, and pre-structured visual workspaces. Strategyzer Innovation Programs package our IP and expertise into step-by-step workflows that enable any team to “do innovation” in a way that delivers results.  They run on our software platform and make innovation accessible. They are for you if you are looking to:

1. Scale innovation in a large company setting 
2. Need to find your business’ next growth engine
3. Want to scale your coaching engagements

Innovating at scale with the Guided Programs

In innovation it's impossible to distinguish good and bad ideas in the early stages. You invest small amounts of money in many teams to let them start. Then after a short period you retire those that can't provide evidence of a customer problem. You only make follow-up investments in the 20% to 40% of teams with sufficient evidence. Winning ideas and teams will emerge. For a core innovation team that could mean coaching 10, 20, 50, or even more teams how to shape, test, and iterate ideas. That's hard to do at scale with sufficient quality. At Bosch they accompanied over 200 teams in three years (read more about Building an Innovation Pipeline at Bosch).

Here's where Strategyzer Innovation Programs come in:

The programs guide your teams and coaches through the entire process from idea, to testing, to presenting. . No more need to design processes, make slides, or prepare workshops. Everything is packaged in a turnkey solution that can be launched at the click of a button. 

Your internal coaches will first receive a light training to give them the required understanding to take the teams through the process. This allows the core innovation team to become completely autonomous from external consultants. 

What’s in it for you?

1. You’re ready to launch a world-class innovation process with turnkey innovation programs at lightning speed.
2. You become autonomous from external consultants with your very own innovation coaching team.
3. You make innovation accessible to anybody interested across your organization.

We recently published a case study about IBL, a multi-sector conglomerate in Mauritius with over 26,000 employees. They used Strategyzer Programs and their own internal competencies to scale innovation autonomously across the organization.

A world class toolkit to get innovating

At small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) the innovation needs are substantially different. An individual or small team is tasked with implementing innovation on a shoestring budget. You simply don't have the time nor budget to design innovation processes or make slides for workshops. You need an off-the-shelf solution that's best in class. 

“I didn't realize this could be a segment for Strategyzer until the first SME clients came knocking on our door. They could not afford us coaching their teams, but our Program Licenses met their needs”

Our Programs give you access to a best-in-class innovation process, all inclusive. You get access to slides, e-learning, coaching instructions, guided experiments, and much more. With these unique Guided Programs, we are further democratizing innovation, and making world-class innovation accessible to organizations with 250-750 employees.

What’s in it for you?

1. Access to a world-class innovation process, all inclusive.
2. Innovation support from the Strategyzer team.
3. Credibility and re-assurance of the Strategyzer brand with their leaders.

More time coaching, less time making slides

Later this year we plan to scale our programs to independent coaches and boutique consultancies. Some already purchased Strategyzer Guided Programs to deliver them to their own clients. For them the value proposition is simple. They earn from consulting, while offering their clients our process and brand. No need to reinvent the wheel when they can "resell & deliver" the world's premier innovation brand.

However, for us the delivery mechanism is different from the above two segments. And since we learned the hard way that focus is key, we're pausing this segment while we focus on large corporations and SMEs respectively. We will be ready for coaches and boutique consultancies later this year.

Looking ahead

Of course, during our exploration, we unearthed another multitude of potential segments we could create value for. For the time being, we simply don't have the bandwidth to do everything unfortunately. However, since democratizing innovation is high on our agenda, we hope to get there one day! Stay tuned as those other profiles get on our roadmap!