Innovation Advisory Support
Innovative leaders know that solving problems starts with asking the right questions.
That’s why innovation methodologies are so powerful: They start by framing questions. However, your day-to-day reality is answering questions. It can be hard to find the space to think about big questions. There is a way to find that space and increase your confidence in your innovation mindset. Pair yourself with someone with hard-won lessons from implementing innovation mindsets, programs and solutions in other organisations. WAVE’s advisory service matches board members, CEOs, group executives and other senior leaders one-on-one with a confidential sounding board. Their sounding board comes with no agenda, only lived business experience in the methodologies of problem framing. Your advisor’s job is to ensure that the right questions stay at the top of your agenda.
The steps to becoming the sounding board for leaders with an innovation agenda
1. Locating the organisation
A thriving organisation needs to be ahead, and the first step in getting or staying ahead is to work out your position relative to your competition. Then you can create a vision for where you want to be.
2. Innovation leadership
Your WAVE advisor is your counsel on creating a lasting innovation environment in your organisation. They’ll work with you on ways to excite the board and your people about using human-centred design and innovation to solve problems efficiently, effectively and profitably.
3. Innovation for growth
Great ideas are often lost in the translation from proven concept to launched product. For leaders with products ready for market, your WAVE advisor can help you guide the organisation through the transition from minimum viable product to profitable offer.
4.Intrapreneurship guidance
Entrepreneurs spot problems and seize opportunities to solve them. Intrapreneurship does the same inside an established organisation. Your WAVE advisor offers counsel about ensuring that your organisation harnesses the potential of its intrapreneurs.
5. Innovation radar
Innovation methodologies allow organisations to be where their customers need them to be. Your WAVE advisor will help you establish an over-the-horizon radar so you’re positioned to make the right moves ahead of the game.
Weave innovation into the fabric of your organisation
You’re under pressure to find solutions, so you can’t park innovation in a “lab” or dust off innovation methodologies in “sprints”. Innovation needs to be in the weave of your organisation so you can bend or even change shape under pressure.nTo weave innovation into the organisation, you need a long-term relationship with an expert who can show you where to start or how to maintain a culture of innovation and human-centred design. We’re here to discuss how WAVE’s advisory service could be tailored for you.
Dr. Munib Karavdic | Your WAVE innovation advisor
WAVE CEO Munib Karavdic is an experienced business leader and academic with an interest in solutions that drive impact, not just coming up with good ideas. Munib has spent years leveraging the feedback loop between business practice and academic research to create innovations with results that can be circled in an annual report.He is experienced at working confidentially with board members, CEOs, group executives and other senior leaders to make innovation a mindset and everyday practice in their organisations.
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An innovator-in-residence for leaders with a change agenda
The organisations that profit from change are those with a customer-centric mindset. The customer-centric mindset goes beyond slogans or filling a box in a business case. True customer-centricity is about having the right services and products to offer the customer when and how they need them. Ideally, you’ll develop those solutions before competitors have even identified the problems your customers will pay to solve. Our advisory service is like having an innovator-in-residence, someone to keep customer-centricity on the table with every decision. You can also test your thinking with your innovation advisor before you shift the reality in your organisation merely by airing a possibility. Our advisory service is a long-term relationship that flexes with your needs.
There is no need to navigate innovation alone.
Move confidently forward through your innovation journey with a long-term relationship with one of our innovation experts. To begin conversations to work out how we can tailor our advisory service to suit your individual or organisational needs, get in touch.
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