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The Strategy Module

The UN Innovation Toolkit

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Team information

ManagerUN Innovation Network

Johanna Jochim

Associate FellowUNSSC

Paula de Blas

Learning Portfolio ManagerUNSSC

Berin McKenzie

Motivator

Motivator

No

Yes

Poll #1 Did you join our last UN Innovation Toolkit webinar two weeks ago?

Motivator

1.

Recap

UN Innovation Toolkit

• Evaluates team/unit/organization readiness to innovate​, giving an Innovation Profile and Detailed Results.
• Identifies current capabilities as well as needs and challenges, with five recommended tools.

Online Diagnostic Tool: 27 Questions​

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un-innovation.tools/register​

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www.unssc.org/courses/blue-line-free-open-courses-and-tools-un-staff/

UNSSC Free Course: Introduction to Innovation

1.

Introduction and Overview

The Strategy Module

Innovation strategies help organizations and teams make key decisions about how to get from where they are to where they want to go and how to allocate resources effectively.

TRATEGY

WITHOUT AN INNOVATION STRATEGY, ORGANIZATIONS OFTEN FIND THEMSEVES:

Missing new opportunities and threats associated with new trends and technologies

Taking on responsibilities that are better suited to another player in the broader mission ecosystem.

Launching innovation initiatives that are not complementary to each other or to broader mission priorities

To understand what resources and capabilities are required to execute its innovation activities and achieve its goals.

To assess broader trends and emerging technologies when charting the course for its innovation efforts

To consider its broader programmatic and operational ecosystem when selecting innovation tactics and strategies to execute.

To treat innovation efforts as portfolios of investments that balance risk and reward.​

To establish a clear set of innovation goals to drive its innovation efforts.

Why do why need an Innovation Strategy?

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5 UN-derived tools

The Tools

CASE STUDY

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

STEPS YOU WILL TAKE

OBJECTIVES

This tool helps users to think through their innovation goals, imagine what success looks like, and discover which barriers to overcome in order to realize success.

Headlines of the Future

CASE STUDY

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

STEPS YOU WILL TAKE

OBJECTIVES

This tool helps users assess potential futures that can influence their goals and to strategize how best to prepare for these unknowns.

Scenario Blueprint

CASE STUDY

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

STEPS YOU WILL TAKE

OBJECTIVES

This tool helps users identify the actors in their innovation ecosystem and determine their comparative advantage.

Ecosystem Analysis

CASE STUDY

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

STEPS YOU WILL TAKE

OBJECTIVES

This tool helps users analyze an existing “portfolio” of projects focused on a specific goal, to determine whether they represent the right risk level for their innovation ambitions.

Portfolio Strategy

CASE STUDY

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

STEPS YOU WILL TAKE

OBJECTIVES

Helps users plan for the execution of an individual innovation project and to identify gaps that require additional resources or additional innovative solutions.

Innovation Planner

Most popular tools in the Strategy Module

Innovation planner

Scenario Blueprint

Scenario Blueprint

Motivator

Innovation Planner

Poll #2 Which tool would you like to delve into today?

Motivator

CASE STUDY

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

STEPS YOU WILL TAKE

OBJECTIVES

This tool helps users assess potential futures that can influence their goals and to strategize how best to prepare for these unknowns.

Scenario Blueprint

Worksheet

Scenario Blueprint

Driving Forces​ Worksheet​

1. Identify a key question related to this topic that you would like to explore to inform your innovation goals.
2. List some of the external driving forces that could affect the answer to your focal question ​

• Identify the two forces with the highest potential for impact that also have a high degree of uncertainty.

Step 1: Determine a focal question and identify driving forces.

Divergent

Relevant

Balanced

Challenging

Plausible

Scenario Blueprint

Scenario Creation Worksheet​

1. Identify two polar-opposite futures for each force
2. Create a 2x2 table in which each of your selected forces represents an axis, and the opposite futures are the end points on each axis
3. Construct four different scenarios representing the quadrants where the extremes of these forces intersect

Step 2: Turn your two highest-impact forces into scenarios

Worksheet

Worksheet

Scenario Blueprint

Scenario Response Worksheet​

1. Explore the implications and solutions that each future presents.
1. How might you respond to each scenario?
2. What are the potential risks and opportunities each one presents?
3. How can you manage them?

Step 3: Assess each scenario and capture critical insights

Scenario Blueprint

Step 4: Look across scenarios to identify future innovation focus areas

CASE STUDY

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

STEPS YOU WILL TAKE

OBJECTIVES

Helps users plan for the execution of an individual innovation project and to identify gaps that require additional resources or additional innovative solutions.

Innovation Planner

The Innovation Planner

Enabling Environment Scan

Innovation Planner

Scan the Horizon

Ecosystem Analysis

Now is time to put in practice the Innovation Planner tool!

For organizational challenges that hinder innovation, see the 🔧Enabling Environment Scan tool in the Evaluation module.

Refer to the 🔧 Ecosystem Analysis tool for more information on how yourorganization can identify the right tactics to generate new solutions.

Refer to the 🔧Scan the Horizon tool for more information on how to execute these activities.

Worksheet

Innovation Planner

Innovation Inventory Worksheet​

• List innovation goals and barriers ​
• List current or planned innovation projects​
• Question: Are they aligned to goals and barriers?

Step 1: Identify current/planned innovation projects​

Interactive

Agile

Worksheet

Innovation Planner

Innovation Timeline Worksheet​

• List goals/projects detailed on Innovation Inventory​
• Identify: ​

• Start Date/Targeted Start Date​
• Major Milestones​
• Targeted End Date

Step 2: Plot timelines for each project

Innovation Resources Worksheet​

• Timelines:​
• When will resources be needed?​
• Piloting: 6 months? 9 months?​
• Scaling: 5 years?​
• Engage relevant viewpoints​
• Do not work in isolation

Worksheet

Innovation Planner

Innovation Resources Worksheet​

• Identify required human/financial resources/materials​
• Prioritize:​
• Which resources are critical for the activity?​
• Which would be nice to have?​
• Differentiate between actual/requested resources​

Step 3: Articulate resource needs/projected outcomes

Innovation Planner

Step 4: Analyze the completed innovation inventory, roadmap, and resource templates.

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Learning Portfolio ManagerUN System Staff College UNSSC

Berin McKenzie

Questions and Answers with...

See you on the next webinar on 11th May 2021: the Strategy Module.

Thank you!