Strategies in Action

Strategies in Action

Select two innovations in your organization (or an organization of which you have good knowledge) has 'developed in recent years.  The innovation do not have to be radical, indeed, they may be fairly minor or incremental changes to an existing innovation.  The innovation may be a product, service or process and may include innovations from within the private sector, public sector or voluntary sector, for example.  Choose one that is considered to have been 'very successful', and one that is considered to have been 'unsuccessful' or 'not particularly successful'.  Remember, success does not have been in term of financial return.  For example, a successful service innovation by a charity to combat illiteracy among adults might be on that is able to address this issue more effectively than in the past.

1. Briefly introduce the two innovations and the organization.
2. Briefly introduce the criteria you have used to assess the successfulness of your selected innovations.
3. Evaluate the two innovations you have selected using concepts from the module regarding success/failure factors and the innovation process.
4. Discuss the extent to which your evaluation from 3. helps explain the difference in the success of the two innovations.