PA Consulting Group's track record of technological innovation in many sectors, combined with our expertise in organisational change, strategy development and systems implementation, makes us the partner of choice for companies seeking to transform their innovation performance.
Innovation strategy development
Developing a coherent innovation strategy that combines a clear vision and addresses the future needs of markets and consumers is essential for success. PA’s innovation strategy framework is a proven methodology that takes the organisation on a journey from ambition definition, through strategy definition, to action plans for implementation. Our insights into technical, market and customer trends, combined with this robust process, provides our clients with means to develop high-growth, market-winning innovation strategies.
Innovation performance improvement
Many companies struggle to deliver on their innovation ambitions. Typical issues such as lack of real innovation leadership, poor processes and unmotivated employees can prevent real innovations from being delivered. PA’s innovation footprint methodology diagnoses the barriers to innovation delivery in client companies, and provides a focus for implementation of performance improvement programmes. These programmes typically deliver benefits such as reduced time to market, more effectively managed innovation processes, creation of more creative ideas and improved return on innovation investment.
Succeeding with open innovation
The philosophy behind open innovation (OI) encourages companies to look beyond their boundaries to access new technologies and innovation at a faster rate and lower cost than can be achieved internally. Many companies, however, do not have a coherent, well-managed holistic approach to open innovation, resulting in a failure to deliver the desired increase in innovation productivity. PA’s OI service helps our clients to develop a clear strategy for OI, identify new approaches to creating high-value partnerships, implement new OI processes and tools that enable the whole organisation to become open innovators and deliver the cultural and organisational change needed to create a real OI system. See our views on what open innovation means to pharmaceutical R&D and how can it be realised.
Innovation culture and transformation
Innovation is not just about strategy, process and new technology – without the involvement and passion of all employees, many companies still fail to deliver after years of process improvement, technical investments and reorganisations. PA’s organisational and cultural change expertise addresses the soft issues and organisational challenges that hinder innovation. Implementation of the right organisational structures for innovation is supported by a cultural transformation that focuses on creating the right values and behaviours from the leadership team down. By removing artificial barriers and energising the whole company, we enable our clients to become truly innovative companies.
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