Professor Ankush Chopra studied over 100 companies in North America and Europe to seek answers to the above questions. He found that companies across the world use the same set of competencies to become successful innovators. In this webinar, he shows how you can use these insights to develop and lead an innovative organization.

1. The 5 Competencies of Highly Innovative
Organizations
Dr. Ankush Chopra Naba Ahmed
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5. About Dr. Ankush Chopra
Dr. Ankush Chopra is an award winning author and expert in strategy and innovation. His book “The Dark Side of
Innovation” was hailed as a must read by business leaders. Chopra has worked in North America, Europe and
Asia as a professor, consultant, business leader. He teaches, trains, and consults with leading organizations
around the world. Chopra is a professor of Strategy at School of Management, Fribourg (Switzerland) and has
been an Assistant Professor of Strategy at Babson College (USA.) As a professor, he works on strategic issues
around business growth, transformation and innovation.
About Naba Ahmed
Naba went to Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and majored in Journalism and minored in Integrated Marketing
Communications. After working as Editor-in-Chief at the campus newspaper, she became interested in developing
content across multiple platforms, and now works as a Content Marketing Specialist at Aggregage, providing some
of the most interesting thought-leaders across a wide variety of industries with a space to celebrate the diversity,
depth, and experience of their professional cultures, personalities, and passions.

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What to Expect From this Webinar?
The 5 Competencies of Highly Innovative Organizations
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• Create an action plan to take your organizational innovation
outcomes to the next level
• Understand the CRENIM©* innovation competency model to
assess and diagnose your organizational innovation capabilities
• Understand your personal innovator profile to leverage your
innovation style

7. Innovation Action Plan Questions
• How well does your organization do on innovation?
• Rate it on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being low and 10 being high?

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WHY INNOVATION?

9. Measuring Innovation
Innovation Effectiveness Innovation Efficiency

10. Unpacking Your Innovation Results?
Fate of Idea
in the firm
Fail
Succeed
Succeed Fail
Fate of Idea
in the Market

11. Innovation – A Personal Narrative

12. Moments of Innovation
Just as a torn sail cannot harness the
power of wind, a broken innovation
system cannot harness the moments
of innovation in your organization

13. Innovation Action Plan Questions
• Where is it strong and where is it weak?
• Producing enough great ideas or not enough?
• Successfully commercializes great ideas?
• Kills bad ideas fast (or too slowly)
• Nurtures promising ideas long enough (or discards them too quickly)
Innovation Action Plan Questions

14. Why Do Firms Routinely Kill Good Ideas and
Nurture bad ones?
What makes an idea survive or die in an
organization?

15. Research Project Details
• Funded by HES-SO (Switzerland)
• Research from 2014-2018
• Over 100 companies in North America and Europe
• Four stages of research using multiple methods
Why do some idea survive while others fail to do so in organizations?

16. How do Ideas Originate, Evolve and die?
Creators( Recognizers( Navigators( Implementers(
Enabling(Environment(
Enabling(Environment(
Enabling Mechanism
Enabling Mechanism

17. Iterative Process

18. CRNI Profile of an Individual
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0.25
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0.9
Creators Recognizers Navigators Implementors

19. Innovation Action Plan Questions
• What do you think is your CRNI
Profile?
• Rate your CRNI skills as low,
medium, high
• What is your dominant trait
and what is your weakest link
in your innovation profile?
C R N I

20. CRNI Exists at Two Levels
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0.22 0.3
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Creators Recognizers Navigators Implementors
Consumer
Work
Easyshare
Memo Stage gateBasic R&D

21. Innovation Action Plan Questions
• What is your Organizational
CRNI Profile?
• Rate each of the CRNI on Low,
medium, High
• Create a profile
C R N I
Innovation Action Plan Questions

22. Symptoms of Weak / Maladjusted CRNI
Maladjustment In Symptom
Creation Software Firm – All ideas are too small
Recognition Meaning of incoming information –
Medical Devices
Navigation Swiss Bank – See it with fresh eyes
Implementation Gold filling in dentist’s office
Citi Example Wrong Recognizers

23. Enabling Mechanism
• Helps Identify Creators, Recognizers, Navigators, Implementors
• Enable Training of Individuals
• Enable Systematic CRNI organizational capabilities
• Connect the four actors
• Systems or Individuals play this role – Innovation Marathons /
Software Solutions

24. Innovation Action Plan Questions
• Rate your organizational Mechanisms or enabling systems?
• How do innovators know others actors in your organization?
• How do they get connected with each other?
• How good a job does your Mechanism do in connecting the actors?
Innovation Action Plan Questions

25. 5 Innovation Competencies – CRENIM©
• Creators
• REcognizers
• Navigators
• Implementors
• Mechanism
At Two Levels
• Individual Skills
• Organizational
Competencies
A Firm wide capability

27. Innovation Action Plan Questions
• At which stage of innovation evolution is your organization today?
• Level 1 to Level 4
Poll: What is your organizational innovation capability level today? (1-4)
Innovation Action Plan Questions

28. Key Lessons
• Identify your C,R,N,I Actors (are highly Domain specific)
• Train and equip your C,R,N,I Actors
• Build C, R, N, I competencies in your organization
• Connect your innovators with a strong systematic mechanism (M)
Raise your CRENIM© Score

29. Your Organizational Innovation Assessment
• Your overall innovation performance (on a scale of 1-10)
• Organizational strengths and weaknesses as an innovator
• Your personal innovation profile (CRNI)
• Your organizational innovation profile (CRNI)
• Your enabling systems (M) – nature and effectiveness
• Your evolution stage as an innovator (Level 1-4)

30. Your Action Plan
• If you are an individual Innovator:
• Understand your CRNI profile
• Ally with complementary CRNI Profiles
• If you are an innovation Leader
• Identify your organizational CRNI profile
• Fix the missing CRNI capabilities
• Build a strong systematic mechanism to connect the actors (M)
Download the whitepaper on CRENIM© framework and its lessons at
ankushchopra.com

31. Q&A
Naba Ahmed
With: Moderated by:
Professor of Strategy, School of Management
Fribourg
Linkedin page: /in/ankushchopra
Twitter ID: @ankushchopra
Website: http://ankushchopra.com/
Dr. Ankush Chopra
Editor, Business Innovation Brief
Linkedin page: /in/naba-ahmed/
Twitter ID: @InnovationBrief
Email: naba@aggregage.com
Website: businessinnovationbrief.com
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