So here is a rough plan to go about executing innovation framework in a large org. This is based on my practical experience and seeing what other have done in similar situations:

Securing executive sponsor – educate the sponsor on the process, on the commitment, on the risks and guaranteed failures, on budget and org.
Problem discovery, validation and focus – engage the executive’s team to list and prioritize problems. Conduct problem sizing and urgency metric. Validate with the exec sponsor. The end results should be:
1. List of top 10 problems in the exec org ranked by value size, urgency and strategic importance.
2. For the top 3 problems, the exec and team must commit to pending innovation of at least $300K per TBD solution. Final budget approval is only after solution proposal is reviewed and approve by exec and team.
Flaring for solutions.
1. Build foundation for internal innovation center of excellence using ideation workshops, idea collaboration tools and customer development interviews.
2. Develop open innovation framework to solicit ideas from industry.
3. Set criteria and process for idea selection
Selecting:
1. Develop business cases, timeline, fit with org culture and strategy
2. Define feasible product & delivery team for each solution
3. Define business owner if pilot is successful
4. Commit Funding
Delivering
1. Prototype / beta development
2. Testing and learning
3. Data and analytics
Evaluating

At the end of evaluation, do one of these:

- Kill project

-Increase funding for the specific project for another phase of testing and learning

-Hand off to business unit for scaling

This cycles repeats itself while improving processes, tools, methods, and metrics, and can grow in scope across departments.

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