INNOVATION GUIDE

Innovation Breakdown Structure

Get the Innovation Breakdown Structure Guide to learn how the hierarchical model can help your organization build a system of record for innovation.

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About the Hierarchical Model

The Hierarchical Model to Track Innovation describes the established organizational framework for idea collection, tracking and development, innovation management, and agile experimentation.

This model provides an organized representation of all ideas, concepts, suggestions, issues, and decisions — which we collectively call Intentions — that are cataloged and tracked in your innovation management system.

Answering Key Questions

The Hierarchical Model consists of the Contributor Breakdown Structure (CBS), Innovation Breakdown Structure (IBS), Information Discovery Structure (IDS), and the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS); it is used for reporting, analysis, performance measurement, and forecasting on your innovation funnel, investments, and cost benefit analysis to answer key questions such as:

  • What is our return on innovation investments by business unit?

  • What percentage of our investments are focused on continuous improvement?

  • What percentage of our investments are focused on disruptive innovation?

  • Which business unit contributed the most (or the least) to our innovation efforts?

  • What is idea review and evaluation velocity?

  • Where are our idea management bottlenecks?

  • What innovations had the optimal return on investment?

  • Which challenge types work best?

  • Which participants or participant types show the highest level of engagement?