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IMP3rove is an initiative of the European Commission aimed at enhancing the innovation management performance
of small- and medium-size enterprises and consultants
IMP3rove as European standard
for innovation management
The IMP3rove Assessment has been defined as the European pre-standard in the CEN Workshop Agree-ment 35/2007. By March 2008 almost 2,000 SMEs had benefited from the IMP3rove Assessment. They have been supported and consulted by more than 300 IMP3rove experts from across Europe. And the number of companies using IMP3rove is growing continuously in Europe. On the IMP3rove platform you will find numerous testimonials from SMEs – from different industry sectors – which have suc-cessfully applied IMP3rove.
High-quality service and results are an integral part of IMP3rove. We are committed to continuous data quality assurance. IMP3rove has the most up-to-date database on innovation management among SMEs in Europe. IMP3rove provides an up-to-date overview of your competitiveness at any point in time.
IMP3rove services aim at high impact for SMEs. This applies to the IMP3rove assessment reports as well as to the services provided by the IMP3rove experts.
A.T. KearneyEva DiedrichsKaistraße 16 AD-40221 DüsseldorfT: +49 (o)211 13 772266F: +49 (o)175 13 2659266
www.europe-innova.org/improve
www.improve-innovation.eu
Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial EngineeringSabine BrunswickerNobelstraße 12D-70569 StuttgartT: +49 (o)711 970 2035F: +49 (o)711 970 2299
Email: [email protected]
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IMP3rove for Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs)
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Innovation drives profitable growth
IMP3rove offers a holistic approach to innovation management. It builds on the A.T. Kearney “House of Innovation”: from Innovation Strategy to Innova-tion Organization and Culture to all the Innovation Life Cycle Management processes and the Enablers for superior innovation management, including the results of innovation. The online IMP3rove Assess-ment guides you in a highly systematic way through all the dimensions of innovation management. Your first learning experience begins with completing the holistic and well-structured questionnaires. You will learn what is important for superior innovation management. You will better understand the root
causes of your company’s strengths and weakness-es in innovation management when you benchmark yourself against the growth champions and the aver-age performers.
IMP3rove uniquely combines efficient online assess-ment with highly effective personal consulting services provided by an expert in innovation management.
Would you like to benefit from IMP3rove and improve your innovation manage-ment performance for profitable growth?
IMP3rove addresses all dimensions
of innovation management
IMP3rove provides you with highly valuable services, including a well-structured online assessment, compre-hensive benchmarking reports, consulting services and a clear roadmap for improved innovation management performance. You will find innovation management experts who can help you to implement the most effec-tive improvements as a basis for sustainable growth.
You can decide with whom you would like to benchmark yourself – be it with companies in your industry, your size class, your age class, on a national basis, or on a European scale. The database will always be up-to-date. Thus, you will have a clear picture on your current com-petitive performance. The benchmarking reports indicate the key strengths and weaknesses of your company’s innovation management
performance. They are strictly confidential and only you have access to them. Once you have analyzed the re-sults of the benchmarking, you can define appropriate measures for improvement. The reports and the results of the growth champions give you some indication of how you can improve. If you would like to obtain profes-sional support, you can involve a member of the Euro-pean network of IMP3rove experts. You will find them on the IMP3rove platform: www.improve-innovation.eu. These experts will help you to develop a clear and effective roadmap to improved innovation management capabilities.
Would you like to use IMP3rove yourself?
IMP3rove: your benefits
The way to IMP3rove is very simple: • Register as an SME on the IMP3rove platform free of charge• Fill out the IMP3rove questionnaires on your own or with the help of an IMP3rove expert• Select the benchmarking class with which you would like to compare your company• Request the IMP3rove evaluation reports• Download the IMP3rove evaluation reports• Analyze the results of the IMP3rove Assessment and define the measures to fill the gap in relation to the growth champions – in collaboration with an IMP3rove expert, if you wish.• Implement the measures rigorously to improve your innovation management capabilities for profitable growth.
You benefit most if your company • perceives innovation as a key growth driver leveraging product/service innovation as well as innovation in business processes or organization, or in business models• aims for profitable growth • has at least 5 employees • has been in business for at least 2 years.
Will you accept our invitation for a compre-hensive benchmarking of your company’s innovation management performance?
Steps to IMP3rove
Learn how the growth champions ensure sustain-able high growth rates! They have already mastered the mechanics between innovation and sustainable profitable growth. They define their strategy for inno-vation as key drivers of growth. They know what their growth targets are. Their idea pipeline is sufficient to achieve the predefined growth targets. Growth cham-pions successfully exploit both internal and external sources to generate new and promising ideas. They know what efforts are required to maintain business performance. And they are ambitious enough to suc-ceed in the medium to long term and thus evade the competitive pressure. Growth champions apply their innovation management to product and service inno-
vation as well as to innovation in business processes and organizational and business models.
If you would like to have a better understanding of how you perform in innovation management, IMP3rove is a unique approach that helps you to leverage innovation for your company’s profitable growth more effectively.
Would you like to leverage the full range of services that IMP3rove has to offer you so as to improve your innovation man-agement performance with sustainable impact?
Each step within the IMP3rove process is valuable for the SMEA. T. Kearney House of Innovation
Innovation Strategy
Innovation Life Cycle Management
and CultureInnovation Organization
Enablers, e.g. Human Resource Management, Knowledge Management, Project- and Program Management, Control Functions and IT
Development process: Product /Service/Process/
Organization/Business Model Development
Idea Management
Launch /Continuous
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Detailed reports with European benchmarks of the growthchampions providing the basis for a structured discussion
Consulting workshop
IMP3rove questionaires – Learning experience bycompleting the holistic and well structured questionaire
High-level roadmap to improved innovationmanagement as result from the consulting workshop
Growth through innovation management