UN Innovation Toolkit Event Participants

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Innovation Toolkit

2020

UNSSC

UN Innovation Toolkit: Development

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Background

Developed at the behest of UN Secretary-General António Guterres under the leadership of the Secretariat of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB), in close collaboration with the UN Innovation Network and other partners, has been entrusted to UNSSC to ensure wide dissemination and integration into relevant capacity building and innovation efforts.

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UN Innovation Toolkit: Diagnostic

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Diagnostic: Profiles

Diagnostic: Process

Diagnostic: Perspectives

You are then presented with your Profile, with Strengths; Risks; and next steps Guidance. Are you a “Collaborator?"; a “Trailblazer?”; an “Implementor?”

You can choose to take the Diagnostic from the perspective of your Team, Unit, or Organization

The Diagnostic is a 27-question Assessment, which provides a insight into your readiness to innovate

Diagnostic: A Comprehensive Assessment

Recap

Detailed Results

Diagnostic

Recommended Tools

The Diagnostic outlines your readiness to innovate across five critical pillars of Innovation: Strategy; Partnerships; Architecture; Culture; and Evaluation: S,P.A.C.E. You will be provided specific scores in each area, and a detailed description of your Profile.

To begin your innovation journey, the first step is the Innovation Diagnostic. After completing the Assesment you will be ready to move on to the S.P.A.C.E framework with detailed results and personalized Tools.

The diagnosis, through the assessment of your strengths and weaknesses within the S.P.A.C.E. framework, determines which Tools would enhace your innovation profile through personalized recommendations.

Let's move on and examine the S.P.A.C.E Framework in more detail

UN Innovation Toolkit: S.P.A.C.E Framework

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S.P.A.C.E

The UN-derived Tools are arranged in the S.P.A.C.E Framework, aligning to five critical pillars of Innovation: Strategy; Partnership; Architecture; Culture; and Evaluation.

This S.P.A.C.E framework represents five key areas through which UN organizations can take action to accelerate and scale Innovation. This invaluable resource includes twenty-one tools; step-by-step directions; worksheets; case studies; and references.

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UN Innovation Toolkit: S.P.A.C.E Tools

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Strategy

Portfolio Strategy

Scenario Blueprint

Innovation planner

Headlines of the future

Ecosystem Analysis

Each of the five tools in the Innovation Strategy Module helps users answer specific questions to chart the course of their innovation journey

Partnerships

Prepare to Partner

Prepare to Partner

Find Different Partners

Define a Value Proposition

Each of the four tools in the Innovation Partnerships Module helps users articulate their value proposition and identify, engage, and manage innovation partnerships more effectively

Architecture

Operating Model

User-Centered Design

Scan the Horizon

From Pilot to Scale

Each of the four tools in the Innovation Architecture Module help users answer specific questions to systematize their innovation efforts.

Culture

Create Incentives and Opportunities

Engage Governing Bodies

Embrace Failures

Define Strategic Risks

Each of the four tools in the Innovation Culture Module helps users encourage innovative behaviors within their organizations, celebrate and learn from failures, and engage governing bodies in the innovation process

Evaluation

Enabling Environment Scan

Stage-Gate Assessment

Life Cycle Analysis

Innovation Storytelling

The Evaluation Module consists of four tools to help users evaluate their innovation processes.

Most Used Tools

How relevant are the Tools for users?

Innovation Storytelling

Innovation Planner

Select the right types of communication approaches for various stakeholders to gain buy-in and make more strategic decisions

Plan for the execution of an innovation project and identify gaps that require additional resources or additional innovative solutions

Based on analysis of users to date, the Innovation Planner - in the Strategy Pillar - is the most relevant Tool in terms of a higher rating given, and a higher number of Tool downloads. The Innovation Storytelling Tool - in the Evaluation Pillar - is rated as the second most relevant Tool, followed by Scenario Blueprint (Strategy Pillar); and Engage Governing Bodies (Culture Pillar.)

Engage Governing Bodies

Scenario Blueprint

Explore new ways to engage with their governing bodies on the topic of innovation and take tactical steps to plan their next engagement with a governing body

Assess potential futures that can influence their goals and to strategize how best to prepare for these unknowns

UN innovation Toolkit: Users and Sessions

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Users

150,956

20,476

Almost 10K

Pageviews

Sessions

As of November 1st 2020 we have 9,545 users

7.19

21.9%

Returning Visitors

Pages per Session

13%

20%

67%

33.5%

78.1%

Team Perspective

Organization Perspective

Unit Perspective

New Visitors

Between 25-35 years

Percentage of Diagnostic Assessments undertaken from each Perspective

45.85% female

54.15% male

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Snapshot: 2020

400% increase in users

February - March 2020

During 2020, the UN Innovation Toolkit was increasingly utilised in the months of March, April and May. This trend coincided with the months of COVID-19 confinement, in which one can appreciate both an increasing need for innovation, as well as a greater time that could be invested in learning.

45.15%

12.83%

29.43%

1.22%

11.01%

Data

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UNSSC Next Steps

Initiatives

UNSSC Live Events

UNSSC Innovation Courses

In an effort to further contribute to the CEB vision for a more agile, creative, modern organization, the UNSSC has designed and launched the asynchronous Introduction to Innovation course, free and open to all UN Staff on its BlueLine Platform. This will be augmented in the coming months with specific learning modules examining the Toolkit itself, as well as the five key pillars of innovation – Strategy; Partnerships; Architecture; Culture; and Evaluation

UN Innovation Toolkit mainstreaming, contextualization, and use in collaboration with different agencies. These will examine:

• The relevance of the UN Innovation Toolkit to their organizational mandate;
• How they worked to internalize the results of the Toolkit Diagnostic element; and
• How they engaged with the practical facets of the Tools included.

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Initiatives

Blog

Coffee Hours

Stories of Use

We are creating a blog around innovation and the UN Innovation Toolkit to give voice to professionals in this field.

We are conducting UNSSC Coffee Hours as one-to-one conversations, or as presentations – they take place on a monthly basis on social media, where Participants are able to ask question at the end of each session.

We are collecting stories of use in video and written storytelling format to identify how the Toolkit and the included tools have been contextualized and used in order to create a community around the UN Innovation Toolkit.

Innovation to Meet the Challenges of Tomorrow

“We can do things differently, and we can do different things…innovation is not only the most sophisticated technologies, sometimes it’s the simplest of things. Be bold, be revolutionary… and disrupt… because without innovation, there is no way we can overcome the challenges of our time.”

- UN Secretary-General António Guterres

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