A continuous learning culture is vital to organisational success. The complexity and scale of goals today demands more solutions, human resources, and specialised expertise than ever before.
According to the British Council, a learning culture can provide many important benefits. These include:
- Increasing employee engagement and retention
- Bolstering creativity and innovation
- Increasing organisational resilience to withstand disruption and change
- Improving customer satisfaction.
Fail Fast Strategy Must Evolve
One of the most common methods followed for innovation is the “fail fast – learn fast” strategy. However, most organisations don’t have mechanisms in place to test, learn, and adapt to new developments, never mind benchmarks to help them recognise when a project isn’t working.
Additionally, organisations now address new requirements, while remaining competitive. Climate change and regulatory demands, supply chain interruptions, labour shortages and rising costs make it far more important for organisations to innovate quickly and wisely.
Choosing Innovation Wisely
When it comes to innovation, failure must be managed quickly and decisively. Certainly, organisations can learn from failures, but they’ll want to minimise their losses too.
As a result, the innovative process should start by eliminating as many uncertainties as possible. One method of doing so is by exploring brand adjacencies, rather than diving into completely unknown waters.
However, a time must come when an organisation experiments beyond comfortable ideas. Otherwise, they cannot come up with groundbreaking new products and services. Luckily, once an organisation plots a roadmap, rigorous and relevant experiments can ensure they don’t throw additional resources into losing propositions.
If an outcome doesn’t deliver the results expected, the organisation can rule it out quickly and try another potential solution. They remain focused on their objective and don’t let small setbacks deter them from achieving their goal.
Creating a Continuous Learning Culture
Most organisations don’t realise they need to be in a perpetual state of transformation to succeed today. As such, they may not formalise business practices to encourage employees to test risky ideas.
Consequently, organisations may need to consider reaching beyond their traditional silo to innovate. A seasoned partner can monitor market trends, narrow potential innovative solutions, and probe the implications for the organisation. Furthermore, a good partner can help organisations review successes and failures, maintain momentum, and stay on track.
Fortunately, EarlyBirds was created was to support an organisational learning culture. We help organisations create a data-informed culture that promotes continual experimentation and learning. We can also help organisations plot a roadmap toward their goals.
EarlyBirds offers four pathways towards successful innovation and the following benefits:
- Reduced cost of innovation
- Quick increases in innovation capability, when required
- Connections to the best Subject Matter Experts and innovators available
- Simple process
EarlyBirds Innovation Ecosystem
Our award-winning Innovation Ecosystem earned us the title of Global Open Innovation Platform of the Year 2023. It allows both innovation and strategic thinking in all areas of a business, whatever the technical or business challenge or potential opportunity your organisation wants to explore.
We unite Innovators, Early Adopters, and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to fuel rapid innovative adoption and business evolution. Early Adopters are leaders eager to identify new and disruptive technologies. They want to seize opportunities, solve business challenges, or create new products and services.
The Ecosystem has a data pool of over 4.9 million global innovations across many industries with solutions that may already address your organisation’s challenges. Alternatively, organisations can list their challenges and request solutions from innovators.
EarlyBirds Innovation Ecosystem Maps
EarlyBirds has also developed innovation ecosystem maps for both business or technical themes across the entire value chain, at a regional level or by specialisation. These maps are an ideal solution for strategic thinkers who desire to know what is currently available and the level of maturity.
These maps can provide a solution to challenges or they can identify potential innovators for beneficial partnerships. They are individualized for each organisation and specifically designed with organisational goals in mind.
EarlyBirds Explorer Program
The Explorer Program is tailored towards those who need innovation as a service to supplement existing innovation programs, or to conduct innovation projects when required. It is designed to speed up the process of technological innovation for the organisation as a service.
The Explorer program includes several features including quarterly and monthly innovation days; regular webinars to help stimulate innovation in the organisation; a focus on types of innovations; a platform enterprise license; and a nominated SME for the business.
EarlyBirds Challenger Program
The Challenger Program focuses on a single organisational or technical challenge. It looks for the most relevant innovators that meet your organisational, technical, and risk requirements.
The program is run by an EarlyBirds Subject Matter Expert who identifies your key issues. The SME then searches the data pool to identify and curate options for further evaluation. The most suitable option is chosen and the SME drafts a roadmap of next steps, POC, trial, or implementation.
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EarlyBirds can help your organisation create a continuous learning culture. We’ve helped the Public Sector, Food Industry, Retail, Healthcare, Operations & Maintenance, Manufacturing, Finance & Insurance, Energy, Education, Cybersecurity, and many more. Let us guide you towards appropriate innovations through calculated, measured risk taking.
Organisations can register independently at https://earlybirds.io/. If unsure of which option is best suited to your needs, please reach out to schedule a consultation. We use an individualized approach to ensure you find the best possible solutions.