Unleashing Innovation: Strategic Planning and Capacity Essay

Learning Outcomes:

For this CW2, you are required to produce a report. From your findings in CW1 you are to develop an innovation road map that outlines the preparation of the innovation process. This audit will factor in the wider, operational environment of both up and downstream suppliers and service providers, whilst developing a fuller picture of the organisation’s full innovation capacity.

Analyse and illustrate how organisations and their leaders can successfully plan and prepare for innovation;

Critically discuss the importance of organisational knowledge, knowledge transfer and cross functional co-operation in order to analyse and assess innovation capability and blockages

This assignment leads on logically from the findings of CW1 and students are expected to use the same organisation as CW1.From your findings in CW1 you are to develop an  innovation road map that outlines the preparation of the innovation process. This will factor in the wider, operational environment of both up and downstream suppliers and service providers, whilst developing a fuller picture of the organisation’s full innovation capacity.