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Prototyping Innovation as a Business Process

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The chapter proposes that only innovative companies can deliver sustainable performance over time. How to ensure a robust pipeline of innovative projects to build a sustainable innovative company is a very relevant question. The authors claim that innovation processes which constantly deliver innovation-powered projects can be prototyped. So far prototyping was developed and explored as a stage in innovation process linking idea with refined solution. We use prototyping as a method of getting innovation processes done. In an attempt to find some insights, the authors examine a particular example of prototyping an innovation process step by step, materialize it in a software that enables to automatize and stabilize the process, and fine-tune it with employees in an inclusive approach in a medium-sized construction business. The case study discusses key factors in determining a sustainable innovation process based on a true understanding of the external environment and contextual business requirements. Although rooted in construction specifics, the presented approach can gain broader application.

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    The project was designed and led by S. Sysko-Romańczuk and U. Afifi from DEConsulting in years 2017–2019. The adopted formula of science-driven business project as well as related outputs are subject to copyright. This publication presents unpublished frameworks subject to their authors’ IP rights: (1) methodological approach based on three pillars: diagnose, educate, and prototype and experiment—authors: S. Sysko-Romańczuk and U. Afifi DEConsulting; (2) the concept of Business Innovation composed of three components: creativity (time-to-idea), delivery process (time-to-market), and results (time-to-profit)—author: S. Sysko-Romańczuk; and (3) Five Steps of Innovation Cycle—author: S. Sysko-Romańczuk.

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    Every employee that has an idea and wants to peruse it, through the new five-step process, is named an “ideator.”

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  1. Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Sylwia Sysko-Romańczuk

  2. Hult International Business School, Cambridge, MA, USA

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Sysko-Romańczuk, S., Bachnik, K. (2021). Prototyping Innovation as a Business Process. In: McMurray, A., Muenjohn, N., Weerakoon, C. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Innovation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59916-4_18

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