Guidance, Training, and Implementation for Your Innovation Program

HYPE will help you understand key resource requirements, team structure, and policy considerations to help establish the foundations you need for a sustainable program.

To make collaborative innovation sustainable for the long term, planning a roadmap and aligning key components is essential. Creating early successes, developing an engaged audience, and understand the culture of your organization is part of this process.

A health check is a review process which HYPE will conduct for your program. The in-depth look at your activities reveals areas where you can adjust and improve. HYPE will deliver a structured report upon completion of the health check, and discuss the recommendations with you.

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Delivering sustainable and measurable business value can prove challenging for some innovation programs. HYPE will work with you to analyse your current innovation process and your portfolio value and strength at each gate, to help design a program of activities to boost business outcomes and shorten delivery times.

Engaging third parties outside of your organization is often a key step for developing an innovation program. We work with you to understand your commercial needs, identify the right external parties and define a program structure for your specific Open Innovation needs.

Innovation Management may be part of a range of social business applications used within your organization, such as SharePoint, Yammer or IBM Connections. HYPE will work with you to agree on an appropriate and clear social application structure to keep the company aligned, applications integrated and to ensure employees know which application to use in each business context.

Great design sets the right mood for innovative thinking. HYPE translates your innovation strategy into an appealing design to catch your audience’s attention. We create innovation brands, advertising campaigns, and customize your innovation platform.

HYPE offers a training and workshop session to embed core online innovation best practices within your innovation team. We’ll agree a policy for each specific element of idea campaigns, including evaluation of content, sponsorship, rewards and recognition, sustainability of the process etc.

Our software experts are on hand to deliver training workshops which provide you with the knowledge to manage the system. These workshops ensure you are able to get the most from the tool, learning how and when to use key features to your advantage.

Ensuring that your audience is aware and enthusiastic about your innovation and business challenges is vital in making sure people participate. The methods and messages depend on your objectives and what’s been done in the past. We’ll work with you to develop a communications plan that will drive the type and amount of participation you’re looking for.

There are 50 factors that affect how a given community will engage in your online innovation program. We offer training for full time innovation professionals to help understand how to promote long term, sustainable participation aligned closely with your organization's objectives.

Building an engaged and supportive community of advocates across all parts of your enterprise will help embed collaborative innovation more effectively, especially within large or complex organizations.  HYPE offers training and mentoring of a handpicked, volunteer community, on how to be a good advocate, including guidance on how to identify likely advocate candidates.

Selecting the right idea campaign at the right time, appropriate to your current culture and goals can be a challenge. HYPE teaches you how to prioritize, phase, and select the right campaigns, building up a personalized playbook for your community for a six month phase of your program.

HYPE's software comes ready out of the box. For some organizations though, this is just a starting point. They wish to develop their own custom aspects to the program, to perfectly fit the needs of the company. Using the HYPE Workbench, our application specialists can build workflows and features that you need.

HYPE will help your innovation team to create custom idea campaigns matched to your business needs, culture, and company structure. We’ll share templates and guidance, and teach you how to write compelling questions helping to engage and inspire your target audience.

Your innovation managers may require a little more help than our initial training and planning advice. Therefore we offer a mentoring service for key individuals within your team. HYPE acts as a trusted partner and delivers occasional coaching to provide advice on new challenges or when looking to take the program in a new direction.

HYPE will brief your senior stakeholders on what it means to implement a collaborative innovation program.  HYPE will share examples to aspire to, possible pitfalls and explain how your stakeholder community can become a key enabler of a successful program.

HYPE will be your program champion. We will host town hall meetings, webinars and speak with program sponsors to help brief vital groups in your community on how to get involved and what’s expected of them. HYPE will act as the champion for the new approach and offer advice based upon its deep program knowledge and experience.

Major idea campaigns often require a more extensive review process to ensure the best ideas are considered and that the review team spends their time on the most valuable activities. HYPE offers a customized, facilitated review process to support your innovation managers and reviewers with best practices that support your specific needs and campaign objectives.

HYPE will monitor your campaigns, participation and quality of submissions on a daily basis.  We will look to identify any areas where the program can improve and guide your innovation team towards any changes in strategy or tactics to improve the overall strength of each campaign.

HYPE will act as your internal innovation manager. Embedded within your organization and working onsite with your employees, HYPE consultants will take a lead role in developing campaigns, managing your implementation of the HYPE platform and liaise with key stakeholders.  If you require more capacity, HYPE can help.