What we do…
At a time of stringent public service cutbacks, innovation is not a bolt-on extra but an essential business driver. More has to be achieved for less, without damaging front line services.
Fuel for Innovation offers a route map that helps public service leaders navigate between the logic of day-to-day, operational management and the logic of innovation.
We take a whole systems approach. Our theory of innovation is coherent and has emerged from an in-depth understanding of the complex, contextual mix of activities and events that produce ideas for change that work.
OUR SERVICES
CONNECT
We connect in-house social entrepreneurs to start an innovation uprising.
FRESH EYES
We help you see intractable challenges through new lenses. We are all career social entrepreneurs and have ourselves launched innovations for social change that have had real impact. Our perspectives transcend orthodox thinking.
AUDIT
We work with you to understand your innovation priorities and will produce an innovation strategy tailored to your requirements.
FIND
We find and harness the latent, in-house entrepreneurial talent in your organisation because, quite simply, innovation is the tool of entrepreneurs. Your organisation will be full of people with the drive to create change-and they may not be the most obvious people.
HELP
We equip your in-house innovators with the skills and knowledge to generate, select and develop ideas for innovation. We create the conditions in your organisation that will ensure ideas for innovation have real impact.
Innovation Strategy
SEARCH FOR IDEAS
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Client experiences
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Staff insights
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Trend spotting
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Scenario planning
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Observation
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Benchmarking
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Market dynamics
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Collaboration
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Events
SELECTION OF IDEAS
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Open source, open to all staff for comment and refinement
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First level viability testing
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Prototyping
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Business modelling
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Business planning
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Investment decisions
CAPABILITY BUILDING
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Equip staff with entrepreneurial skills and knowledge
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Find and mobilise the entrepreneurs
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Connect the entrepreneurs
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Build an innovation momentum
CAPACITY BUILDING
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Navigation through four organisational ‘logics’
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Day to day operational management
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New policies, priorities and programmes
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The reform agenda
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Entrepreneurial business disciplines
Frustration
Irritation
Know-how
Experience
Market Demand
Technology push
Need
Tacit knowledge
INSIGHTS
- grass roots upwards
TRANSFORM
- activities
New knowledge
New competencies
Parallel business systems
Alternative implementation structures
Alternative measurement criteria
Alternative funding structures
Cross boundary working
Collaboration
Capability building
knowledge of the determinants of successful innovation
INNOVATIONS
- that work
Services
Business models
Business processes
Products
Service redesign
IMPACT
Cost savings
Value for the public
Growth
Social value
Environmental value
SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION
Fuel for Innovation’s methods work because they are based on the reality of how innovators innovate.