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Prototype With an Innovation Design Sprint
Test and develop innovative ideas in four-day sprints.
- The business has a mandate for IT-led innovation.
- IT doesn’t have the budget it wants for high-risk, high-reward initiatives.
- Many innovation projects have failed in the past.
- Many projects that have moved through the approval process failed to meet their expectations.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Think like a start-up and use experimentation and rapid re-iteration to get your innovative ideas off the ground.
Impact and Result
- Build and test a prototype in four days using Info-Tech’s Innovation Design Sprint Methodology.
- Create an environment for co-creation between IT and the business.
- Learn techniques for socializing and selling your ideas to business stakeholders.
- Refine your prototype through rapid iteration and user-experience testing.
- Socialize design thinking culture, tactics, and methods with the business.
Prototype With an Innovation Design Sprint Research & Tools
Start here – read the Executive Brief
Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should evaluate your ideas using a design sprint, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.
1. Understand and ideate
Define the problem and start ideating potential solutions.
2. Divide and conquer
Split off into prototyping teams to build and test the first-iteration prototypes
3. Unite and integrate
Integrate the best ideas from the first iterations and come up with a team solution to the problem.
4. Build and sell
Build and test the team’s integrated prototype, decide on next steps, and come up with a pitch to sell the solution to business executives.
About Info-Tech
Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.
We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.
What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
Author
Michael Blair
Contributors
- Trevor Farnum, VP of Technology at Data Recognition Corp
- Sime Pavlovic, CIO of Niagara Health Systems
- Eric Protzman, Program Manager at Macro Solutions
- Adam Bell, Assistant Director of Finance, Innovation, and Technology at the City of Fredericton
- Isaac Bennett, Manager of IT Innovation at Maxion Wheels
- Brad Sullivan, Director of Research and Innovation at Employment and Social Development Canada
- Richard Scherer, VP of Customer Innovation at Oldcastle Building Envelope
- Simon Lee, Manager of IT Innovation at Liquor Control Board of Ontario
- Renee Martinez, Deputy City Manager of Innovation at the City of Santa Fe
- One anonymous Executive Director of Business Processes
Related Content: Innovation
Search Code: 84543
Last Revised: November 21, 2017
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