CooL Projects
Is your company ready to take the plunge and go for a cool change? Are you serious about building an innovation-focused culture? Do you really want to build a creative company? Then the CooL Innovation Transformation Projects show you the way.
Innovation Audit Project
We audit the innovation readiness of a business unit or company using the CooL Innovation Audit. In a gap analysis between current and desired state for 56 factors, we find out what issues the entity faces. Based on the gap analysis findings, we suggest focus areas and actions to transform the entity from copycat to CooL. If we agree to move forward, we work with the leadership team in Project 2.
Leadership & Commitment Project
We work with the leadership team to first help everyone understand the cognitive preferences of each member of the leadership team. Then, we work with the leadership on the big picture to lay the strategic platform for a CooL Change. Thereby, we first review and —if needed— redesign the strategic core of the company or business unit. Moreover, we may guide the leaders through a Strategy Innovation Project that leads to a Strategic Road Map used for CooL. If the leadership team commits resources for the CooL Culture Change, we move to Project 3.
Culture Change Project
Here, we first create a CooL Change Action Plan with the CooL Change Project Team to agree on CooL actions on all five areas (Lead, Commit, Collaborate, Cultivate, Structure) and agree on innovation performance indicators to track. The first phase focuses on measures to promote collaboration and communication. Then, we address the first set of cultural factors to build momentum. Thereafter, additional cultural factors get addressed to evolve into a CooL culture, thereby also ensuring that structure, processes and systems are adjusted and aligned. Finally, we introduce actions to make the CooL change stick and permanent.
COOL PROJECTS
Making the CooL Change for Real
Who is it for?
Senior executives, managers and employees who want or need to learn more about organizational factors that drive creativity and innovation in top innovative companies, and want to explore how these factors might be brought to life in the own organization.