Building capabilities and capacities for innovation

1. Innovation Capability
Building
© Agility Innovation Specialists

2. We wish to focus
on building the
Capabilities and
Capacities for
Innovation
alongside your
organization
Pure & Simple

3. Agility’s main objectives within innovation:
“Identify promising business opportunities, develop expertise and
competencies, create value and grow competitive and profitable
business through providing innovation support to clients needs”
www.agilityinnovation.com

4. We believe we are able to offer as the
suggested collaboration outline:
Opening Summary:
 At Agility we treat innovation not just as an
aspiration but as a design specification.
 We can offer a clear vision of our innovation
contribution to your challenges.
 Agility approaches innovation exclusively around
your business clients needs, building capabilities and
capacities to the situation and its context.
 We are able to develop the right solutions that give
you that additional unique competitive edge needed
in your clients.

5. The service approach provided
 The innovation circumstances you find yourself
addressing in your clients work are always
unique, with no exception.
 Agility believes it can provide a more flexible,
adaptable and agile approach to deliver
innovation solutions as necessary.
We believe we can help to resolve your
immediate client challenges and begin the task of
building sustaining competencies.
 Agility work always towards the building of the
long- term capabilities & capacities for a
sustainable future

6. Agility takes a structured approach in collaboration:
Firstly, we seek your perspective
1. We discuss your present situation and reflect on your
innovation agenda for our possible fit.
2. We like to observe how you presently go about innovation to
understand it and relate to our ‘fit’
3. This will help us determine our contribution effectively, it
saves time and future issues .
4. Through mutual discussions and clarifications we arrive at
the key determinates for supporting you.
5. We provide a ‘going forward recommendation’ document
for discussion and agreement specific to the challenges as
they occur.
Secondly, structuring our relationship
1. We clarify the different options available
2. We offer solution-advocacy & implication outlines to
achieve specific outcomes that match your innovation
agenda
3. We highlight critical gaps and issues that may inhibit the
achievement of these goals
4. We mutually decide the next steps & fees.
We want to engage fully

7. We help build the business case
Thirdly, we engage fully
1. We look to problem-solve, coach and
mentor towards the solutions in
collaborative ways
2. We transfer knowledge, provide constant
advice and fully participate in resolution.
3. We strive for a clear ROII to show the
value of our engagement to both you and
your clients.
We believe we offer a comprehensive set of
innovation solutions that go well beyond.
The power of combing in collaborations needs
always to be balanced in the time we both
invest and where we believe this combining has
client value.
Bandwidth always needs to be measured.
What are the mutually reinforcing components that need
to be combined in unique ways for successful innovation?
Offering 1 of the essential
building blocks

8. We offer time saving solutions
We help you to make the Business Case for
Innovation compelling
 Needed value- This quantifies the present
constraints, that if changed would offer the
greatest opportunity to meet the clients
needed value
 Needs stated- It identifies the different
opportunities to be realized by addressing
certain needs for greater success.
 Business Case outcomes- which
initiatives meeting the needs will provide the
greatest return and impact on the result/
efforts made.
We move it dramatically from an aspiration into
a well-designed dynamic process for building
capabilities.

9. So the
question
is to
clients……

10. The bottom-line aim of focusing upon the
building of Capabilities and Capacities is
people make or break innovation:
1. Improve innovation conditions
2. Trigger more and achieve a quicker uptake
3. Building greater synergies & capacity
4. Exploring and extending the culture,
structures, processes & technologies
5. Lessons learnt, validations & challenges to
master, building adaptive capacity
6. Solving critical bottlenecks and constraints,
bridging solutions from gap evaluations
7. Building capability and competencies

11. Building innovation as a natural
capability
For individuals, teams or organizations so it is systemic
What is capability building, it includes:
 Leading edge innovation tools and techniques
 Skill development
 Process and methodology application
 Cultural aspects that support and promote
capability enhancement
 Extending experience beyond the internal
boundaries to leverage knowledge, skills,
technologies through collaboration, technology
and networks
 Forming a leadership strategy and style to relate
and align structure, strategy with resources
 Knowing the different ‘needs’ of our customers and
markets

12. We want to engage •
•
Paul Hobcraft. Base: Switzerland
Email: paul@agilityinnovation.com
& focus on building • Phone:+41-91-751-4350
• Paul provides specialist work through his
the Capabilities and company
Agility Innovation Specialists
Capacities for •
(www.agilityinnovation.com)
100% focused on innovation management & its
Innovation •
related needs for capability and capacity builds.
He presently writes a blog on the DNA of
innovation (www.paul4innovating.com).
• Paul is a British / Swiss citizen.
Pure & Simple
“Everything I want to do is 100% focused on innovation! My focus is all about bringing new forms of innovation
competency or capability into the world of everyday thinking, that did not exist in the (collective) minds of
organizations, teams or in the individuals tasked with generating innovation activity. This focus is designed to
generate new behaviours, understanding and provide value adding services”
- Paul Hobcraft
Agility Innovation Specialists