The Community Innovation Survey 2003 (DTI, 2004) found that only 8 per cent of business expenditure on innovation is spent on design functions, substantially below the 42 per cent spent on R&D.
Is your organisation ready for Design-led Innovation?
The London Development Agency’s Innovation Strategy recognises this and notes that:
“The majority of London’s businesses require greater support, and will need to introduce significant cultural change if they are to improve their own, and London’s innovation performance.”
Other studies have demonstrated that London’s and the South East’s SMEs have been unable to exploit the overall economic development in the region because of the inability of these firms to exploit new ideas, techniques, technologies and emerging market opportunities.
The Organising for Design-led Innovation programme is a 6 hour workshop designed specifically for the proprietors and senior managers of SMEs and is delivered by Design London’s Executive Education team at Imperial College Business School. The programme will help your firm to:
- Understand the organisational and cultural inhibitors for the adoption and exploitation of design-led innovation
- Assess your own capacity for the adoption and exploitation of design-led innovation within your business using online tools and assessment methods
- Identify specific tools, techniques and practices you can employ to resolve those inhibitors affecting your business in areas including such areas as organisational behaviour, new product and service development processes, adoption of new management systems and metrics, knowledge management, market and client orientation, strategy management
- Develop a prioritised action plan along with a balanced scorecard to assess your firm’s transformation over time to high performance design-led innovation
To learn more about these and other programmes or book a place at a business workshop email us at info@design-connection.co.uk