Innovation

Focusing on Innovation is essential for business growth

All businesses innovate. Whether it’s through solving customer problems, the creation of new products, developing new processes, the development of new services or just doing things differently – all of these actions are innovation.
Companies who innovate are more successful, grow faster and are more competitive.

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Innovation Framework

The purpose of the Innovation Framework is to help you asses and identify areas for Innovation capability development within your company and to see how Enterprise Ireland can help you to address them.

Employee Engagement is a key issue to successful Innovation. It is important that the company has a clear understanding on all aspects of the business and how they impact on performance. Strategy enables company to have a clear view of how it will grow and to focus its resources to maximise its return. Delivery structures together with financial resources, capabilities and appropriate skills must be in place to help your company in achieving its strategic goals. It is paramount to give structure to the Innovation process and to be able to evaluate outcomes in a timely manner.

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Latest insights

How Leading Technology Innovators Are Advancing Their Organizations

1st June – Gartner Webinar

Prioritize & Accelerate Innovation Investments

Webinar on-demand by Gartner

How innovation is driving a new generation of entrepreneurship

Article by McKinsey & Company

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Business-led Technology Innovation and Inspiration from SpaceX

13th June – Gartner Webinar

Employee Engagement

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5 min

Employee Engagement: the first element of Innovation Framework with an infographic explainer.

Why scaling Innovation is more about discipline than disruption

Article

5 min

The key to scaling successfully is to understand that everyone and everything in a company is part of a system by Barry O'Reilly.

Strategic Intelligence

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5 min

Strategic Intelligence: the second element of Innovation Framework - infographic explainer.

Understanding Customer Needs

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Strategic Intelligence: Irish SMEs talk about understanding customer needs. #analysis #StrategicIntelligence #strategy

Global trends that are impacting the future of business

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5 min

Strategic Intelligence: Russell Beck lists urbanisation, technology, demography, climate change, globalisation and politics as global trends impacting the future of business. #global #trends

Whiskey can teach us a thing or two about Innovation

Article

4 min

Chuck Swoboda explains why innovation can’t and shouldn’t be stopped even in traditional sectors like whiskey distillers.

Strategy

Doblin Ten Types of Innovation

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7 min

Larry Keeley of the Doblin Group proposes the the ten types of Innovation for Companies to consider

Strategy

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5 min

Strategy: the third element of Innovation Framework - infographic explainer.

The Challenges of Managing Innovation

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Strategy: Sean McNulty of Dolmen outlines the challenges faced by Companies who engage in Innovation Programmes. #Innovation #Challenges #Strategy

Defining clear objectives to achieve the Innovation vision

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5 min

Barry O'Reilly, Business Advisor, Entrepreneur & Author outlines the objectives to achieve an Innovation vision.

Spinouts, Acquisitions and a Culture of Innovation

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3 min

Strategy: John Purdy of Ergo talks about spinouts, acqusition and innovation. #innovation #innovation4growth #acqusition

Ensuring your innovation creates value for customers

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3 min

Strategy: How to become a customer-centric organisation and ensure your innovation creates value for customers by Helen Blake of Futurecurve. #innovation #customervalue #customerexperience

Examples of good Innovation Culture

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5 min

Barry O'Reilly, Business Advisor, Entrepreneur & Author outlines examples of good Innovation culture within companies.

Delivery Structures

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5 min

Delivery Structures: the fourth element of Innovation Framework - infographic explainer.

Scaling your business through outcomes based approaches

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5 min

Barry O'Reilly, Business Advisor, Entrepreneur & Author outlines the outcomes based approach to Innovation.

Capability & Resources

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5 min

Capability & Resources: the fifth element of Innovation Framework - infographic explainer.

What can business leaders do to successfully manage innovation?

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2 min

Capability & Resources: EI in conversation with Sean McNulty of Dolmen on managing innovation successfully. #customervalue #creativity #productdevelopment #messaging

What skills will be important in the future?

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3 min

Capability & Resources: Russell Beck on importance of people skills and innovation skills. #peoplemanagement #skills #creativity

Processes

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5 min

Processes: The sixth element of Innovation Framework - infographic explainer.

How do big companies keep innovating? They act small

Article

5 min

Chuck Swoboda illustrates how “acting small” has resulted in big innovation

The steps to Innovation Portfolio Mapping

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5 min

Barry O'Reilly, Business Advisor, Entrepreneur & Author outlines the clear objectives to achieve the Innovation vision.

Want to avoid disruption? Then keep exploring

Article

5 min

Barry O'Reilly explains how to avoid becoming the next Kodak or Blockbuster.

Current Innovation Programmes

Innovation Planning & Management

Programme

2 x 0.5day

Support clients to develop a clear and coherent innovation plan and access the key tools to implement it.

Building An Innovation Culture

Programme

2 x 0.5day

Enterprise Ireland has developed this workshop to support clients to build and embed a strong culture of innovation to achieve growth and scale in Irish and overseas markets.

Innovation 4 Growth Programme

Programme

9 months

Innovation 4 Growth enables CEOs and their senior teams embed innovative thinking and a genuine culture of innovation within their businesses.

ALL PROGRAMMES

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Business Pillars

Enterprise Ireland has developed a Client Engagement Model (CEM), a process of how Enterprise Ireland works with clients across their different stages of development. This is modeled on a structured framework which we work with clients so that we can come up with an agreed plan of action with the company. The 6 Business Pillars are explained in more detail below.

Focusing on Innovation is essential for business growth

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Innovation Framework

Latest insights

How Leading Technology Innovators Are Advancing Their Organizations

Prioritize & Accelerate Innovation Investments

How innovation is driving a new generation of entrepreneurship

Business-led Technology Innovation and Inspiration from SpaceX

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Strategic Intelligence

Strategy

Delivery Structures

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Processes

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