This document outlines an innovation project charter. It provides fields to name the project, explain its strategic importance through a narrative, define its strategic mission, boundaries, exploration areas, and roadmap. It aims to maximize alignment between leadership's strategy and how employees invest their time and energy. The charter also includes sections for a headline, opportunity/problem addressed, innovation/benefit promise, passion statement, metrics, completion date, customers/stakeholders, and team members.

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Innovation Project Charter
VIO/VIS Name- Give this VERY Important Blue Card a name that is suggestive of the mission
Narrative: Tell the story of WHY it is VERY IMPORTANT that we focus
energy on this Blue Card. The Narrative should be so clear that if
employees get no further direction they will be motivated to work on
this Blue Card and will know exactly what the Leadership’s intent is.
Strategic Mission-Finish the sentence with ONE mission, “We need
ideas for ”
VIO/VIS: VIO
LT/ST: LT
CORE/
LEAP:
CORE
AREA:
R&D
Strategic Boundaries: Ideas or types of ideas that we are NOT
interested in.
Tactical Boundaries: Design, time, resources, investment,
regulations constraints.
Exploration Areas to consider for stimulus mining in the near-term to help inspire ideas to address this strategy
OR Innovation Roadmap-Strategic areas for longer-term innovation / R&D investment, ideally supported with dates
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To maximize alignment between leadership’s strategy and how
employees invest available time & energyInnovation BLUE CARD

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Innovation Project Charter
Headline(Meaningfully Unique):
What Opportunity/ Problem this Idea address? What is the Innovation & Benefit Promise?
Passion Statement Proof- How idea can deliver ?
Passion Metric
Proposed
Recommended
completion date
Death Threats Do to learn More Customers & Team - CRUSADE
Customer/
Stakeholders:
Team Leader
/Members
Innovation YELLOW CARD A framework for clearly communicating innovations