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Cutter Innovation Mapping

Today's successful enterprises are those that know how to foster an environment for innovation and tap creative, valuable outcomes. They are the enterprises that support activities that lead to new markets, products, services, and strategies; that understand that innovation is a key source of sustainable competitive advantage. They have learned to innovate reliably and regularly and to transform ideas into economic value

Consulting Engagements: Innovation Mapping

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The Cutter Innovation practice employs the unique Innovation Mapping methodology developed by Cutter Fellow, Harvard Business School Professor, Rob Austin. Innovation Mapping compares organizations, teams, and people along a number of dimensions that impact innovation performance: the demands for novelty; costs of innovation; process design; the degree of control within the process; the management of accident and serendipity; knowledge collection and use; attitudes towards failure; responses to customer needs and feedback; the locus and development of mastery; closure; collaboration; and motivation. Cutter Innovation Senior Consultants analyze the data collected in extensive interviews with key individuals in your organization and provide you with an understanding of your ability to innovate. You'll learn where the innovation gaps lie between members and groups in your organization. And you'll discover how to close those gaps.

Innovation Mapping is based on the management principles, work processes, and practices of a wide range of expert makers, a connection Rob Austin and Lee Devin first brought to light in their seminal book Artful Making and the subject of research by many of the Cutter Innovation Senior Consultants. This research studied men and women who create innovations on a sustainable, day-to-day, routine basis, yielding patterns that can be applied with success to the IT and other organizations.

Becoming a Client

Cutter Consortium's research and consulting provide you with the support you need to create and implement an innovation strategy that differentiates your organization.

If you would like to evaluate Cutter's research or discuss how Cutter's consultants can help you successfully create and implement your innovation strategy, call us a +1 781 648 8700 or e-mail us at sales@cutter.com.

Up Close with Rob Austin

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Cutter Innovation Team


Innovation Mapping