Managing Innovation

How do you disrupt your industry? Is innovation an integral part of your strategy and culture?

    The Ripples Group can help you:
  • »Screen and prioritize innovation ideas within a strategic context
  • »Develop effective approaches for turning innovative ideas into
    »real product development efforts
  • »Create and improve the capabilities needed to make innovation
    »your competitive advantage over time
  • »Increase the productivity of each innovation project
  • »Improve the likelihood of success with each project
  • »Design and organize complex projects to ensure learning within
    »and across initiatives
  • Case Examples
Prioritizing R&D Pipeline
Client: Biotech in greater Boston area.
Situation: The client had a robust pipeline that needed to be prioritized so that limited resources could be applied more productively.
Ripples Approach: Ripples carried out in-depth market research and conducted interviews with key opinion leaders in about a dozen therapeutic areas. All findings were synthesized into a simple decision matrix.
Result: The client made a drastic change in its development efforts, re-prioritizing its pipeline. Soon after, it closed a $1B deal with a big pharmaceutical.
  • Publications
Design for Learning Innovation
by Karen Ayas

Do you manage innovation effectively?
Does your organization learn?
Is there an organizational design that can be effective for learning and innovation?
And what might this design look like?

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  • Recommended Reading
Revolutionizing Product Development
by Steven Wheelwright & Kim Clark
  • Recommended Reading
The Innovator’s Dilemma
by Clayton Christensen