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The genesis of Agile Innovating was 18 years ago when I rededicated myself to learning how to increase the hit rate of new ideas and make innovations a normal and expected outcome of innovating projects. I had been responsible for innovating in R&D and NPD my entire career.
I had some remarkable successes, with 17 patents and even more trade secrets developed and introduced, but also suffered from the frustratingly low hit rates that are common in innovating practice.
The hit rates I was experiencing were too low to be random. I wanted to know why they were so low, what was holding me and my Engineering Team back, and how to significantly improve the innovating hit rate.
I decided to go back to school as a part time student while I continued to work. My innovating education took me to the University of Illinois – Chicago (The Toyota Product Development and Production Systems), Kansas State University (Organizational Leadership), IDEO (Human Centered Design),and finally the MIT Sloan School of Management (Management, Innovation, and Technology).
I worked to put my new knowledge into practice but continually found myself having to choose between “working in the business versus working on the business”. Working in the business nearly always took priority.
Finally, in 2022, I realized that taking a piecemeal approach wasn’t going to result in a new systemic innovating practice. So I retired from active employment with the goal of developing a novel and pioneering approach to innovating, with the mission “High hit rate, high speed, high acceptance innovating, making innovation the norm.”
Agile Innovating is the result.
The Agile Innovating offering makes it possible for Senior Management, R&D, and NPD professionals to eliminate the tension between “working in the business versus working on the business” that I struggled with. A-I moves innovating from a “working on the business” distraction to a “working in the business” activity.
Agile Innovating saves your business the time and effort of trying to figure out how to improve your innovating results.
It allows you to start innovating more effectively, now.
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