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As with a lot of business projects, the capability of an innovation program is often directly linked to its level of maturity. By ‘maturity’ here, we don’t necessarily mean the length of time that a company has been using an innovation program – although progress in this area does require a certain amount of time to become established.

In our last blog, we looked at metrics maturity and how companies turn performance reporting into an optimized part of an innovation strategy. A key factor to bear in mind when devising a strategy for any innovation program is the regularity with which these metrics are being reviewed.

Looking across the business world at large, it’s apparent that most organizations aren’t at a stage where innovation reporting is optimized. Innovation metrics maturity often depends on how long an organization has been reporting on innovation activity in the first place.

At the start of any organization’s efforts to innovate more effectively and sustainably, processes need to be put in place that ensure new ideas don’t get ignored or forgotten about before they can be implemented.

InnoCentive is now part of Wazoku

The crisis in many parts of the world concerning the lack of available drinking water is only getting worse year after year. As it stands, around 768 million people worldwide cannot access this fundamental resource and, as the effects of climate change worsen and pollution continues, this figure is only going to increase.

InnoCentive is now part of Wazoku

Having had a very successful experience with one of its Challenges run in late 2020 Habitat for Humanity returned to InnoCentive’s open innovation platform.

InnoCentive is now part of Wazoku

Following the success of the previous challenge it ran with InnoCentive, WorldVision had another problem that needed solving. Supported once again by SeaFreightLabs, this Challenge sought to improve the uptake of chlorine-based water treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa.

InnoCentive is now part of Wazoku

Around the world, hundreds of millions of people are at risk of having their homes decimated by natural disasters, such as hurricanes, typhoons, and earthquakes. The main danger of these isn’t purely the volatile and changeable nature of our natural world. Rather, it’s that so many homes in earthquake and typhoon hotspots don’t have any foundations.

InnoCentive is now part of Wazoku

An ideation Challenge, run by humanitarian organization WorldVision, attempted to find solutions to the lack of sanitation facilities around the world. It’s an issue currently endured by some 2.3 billion people globally and leads to avoidable deaths that number hundreds of thousands of people a year.