catalign innovation consulting offerings

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Catalyzing a culture of innovation

Catalign Innovation Consulting

How do we do it?

Solver Surfer

Capacity

Builder Champion


Key challenge of our clients


How do we foster a culture of innovation?

This boils down to one or more of…


1

How to build an

idea pipeline?

2 How to improve idea velocity?

3 How to improve

batting average?

4 How to engage more people?


A sample dashboard


Baseline rates in innovation management

Parameter Poor OK Good

General idea pipeline

(Idea/person/year)

< 0.1 Between 0.1-1 > 1

Big idea pipeline

(Total biz impact/ Revenue )

< 0.1 Between 0.1-1

> 1

Rate of demos

(No of demos/person/yr)

<0.1 Between 0.1-1 > 1

Response Time

(Average time to respond

from customer)

> 8 wk Between 1-4 wk < 1 wk

Success rate for big ideas

(successful / funded ideas)

< 10%

> 90%

Between 10-40%

Between 60-90%

Between 40% & 60%


Our offerings


Tech Reach

Technical Leadership Development

Design Thinking

Customer Centric Innovation

Next Gear (P)

Innovation Program Development

Next Gear (L)

Innovation Leadership Development


Offering Who is it for? What does Catalign do?

Next Gear: Innovation

Program Development

CEO / CTO/ CMO / Head of

innovation program

Help client design &

execute a robust

innovation program

Next Gear: Innovation

Leadership Development

Functional leaders (Head

of Engineering, Research,

Marketing, Quality, HR,

Finance)

Help functional leaders

gear up for leading

innovation initiatives

Tech Reach: Technical


Technical experts: Senior

Engineer, Architect,

Domain specialists

Help technical experts

enhance their sphere of

influence

Design Thinking: A

customer centric

innovation approach

Functional experts

(Engineering, Research,

Marketing, Quality, HR,

Finance)

Help functional experts

build innovation

muscles using Design

Thinking approach

Our offerings


Case study

India R&D center of a global $8B company

Size: 1000

Duration: 1 year

Innovation Next Gear (P)


Innovation Program

1 year

Idea per person per year

0.1 2

Participation

5% 40%

Demoable prototypes

1 10

Biz relevant blogs

0 100

No of ideas that influenced

customer’s roadmap

0 3

No of newsletters with success stories

0 4


Case study

IT Services $200M company

Size: 2000

Duration: 3 months

Design Thinking


Innovation Campaign 3 months

No of campaign themes

3

No of participants

Invention Disclosure

1

No of prototypes

No of ideas

90

50

5

No of papers

15


Tools/Methods


Tools/Methods

Spot & scale Bright spots

Immersive research

Design Thinking Innovation sandbox


Our view of organizational Innovation ecosystem


Climate

Process

Structure

Competency

Platforms Laboratory

Partnership Network

Corporate Venture

Fund

Specialist ladder

Idea Mgmt Process

Challenge process

Immersive Research

Rewards Success stories

Innovation Day

Community of

Practice

Organizational innovation eco-system

Strategy


Competency Map

Training Programs


Clients


Profile


Dr. Vinay Dabholkar, President

5+ years of consulting experience

15 years of industry experience

Innovation engine research spans 200 years, 100+ organizations

Guest faculty at IIMB and TISS

Co-writing a book on innovation management

B.Tech. IIT Bombay & Ph.D. SUNY Buffalo in Computer Science

200+ blogs on innovation since 2007


Thank You

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