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Driving Innovation Amid Change

In response to two Cindy and Matthew posts, address the following about their examples of innovation and creativity:

• How will they incorporate their innovative ideas into an environment of constant change?
• How does constant change affect an organization’s ability to innovate?

CINDY POST

In this course, I hope to gain skills that will help me inspire and manage innovation in my career. I think being able to encourage new ideas and improvements in my workplace can make a big difference. It could help our team work better and improve patient care, which is important in healthcare.

I have had some experience with developing creative ideas. I helped my team come up with a new way to organize patient information in our EMR system. We created a way that made it easier to find and update records. It worked out well because it saved us time and reduced mistakes. From that experience, I learned that teamwork and communication are key to making ideas successful.

I also see innovation and creativity in other organizations. Such as, some hospitals started using telemedicine to help patients who are unable to come in for appointments. This is a great way to reach more people and provide care. Another example is how some clinics are using mobile apps to remind patients about their appointments and medications. These ideas show how being creative can improve healthcare services and make things easier for everyone involved. Driving Innovation Amid Change

MATTHEW POST

Professionally, I have served in the U.S. Air Force for the past 18 years as a Tactical Air Control Party member. My career demands a wide breadth of skills both within an administrative setting and isolated within austere environments. As such, I have learned to adapt and “find a way” to solve evolving problems, innovation in its base level. My goal for this course is to take the skills I have acquired over the years and back that with the formal knowledge and processes to advance my critical thinking and spark creative growth.

Regarding past innovations, I have spent the past two years managing an Air Force manning initiative to combine multiple skill disciplines into dedicated asset teams. It has been a learning curve of trial and error, limited guidance, and only a defined end state. What it has taught me, is that innovation does not occur over night and lynchpin ideas are born out of necessity. I’m excited to work with all of you and see how my limited knowledge of innovative strategy can apply to the corporate world.  Driving Innovation Amid Change

ASSIGNMENT

Prompt

Senior management has decided to explore IoT for the company’s trucks and cars. Your task is to create an internal memo explaining that the company should integrate IoT into its product line using the RWW (real, win, worth it) screening tool and the information from the CTO Brief, Comparative Growth Data, Comparative Operating Statistics, and Comparative Product Plans documents uploaded below. Consider the following:

1. Discuss the feasibility of the product line (refer to RWW screening tool question number one: Is it real?).,
   • Is there a need or desire for the product?,
   • Is the size of the potential market adequate?,
   • Can the product actually be made?,
   • Will the final product satisfy the market?,
2. Discuss the ability of the company to win market share (refer to RWW screening tool question number two: Can we win?).,
   • Will your company’s products have a competitive advantage?
   • How will your competitors respond?
   • Can your company understand the market properly?
3. Discuss the potential benefits to the company of producing this product (refer to RWW screening tool question number three: Is it worth doing?).
   • Will the product be profitable at an acceptable risk?
   • Does launching the product make strategic sense?
   • Does the product fit your company’s overall growth strategy?
   • Will your company’s senior management support this project?
4. Based on the answers to the questions above, explain the reasons why IoT and connected cars are strategically important to the company.
   • Consider the evolving customer needs and desires; how would they impact the company’s product plan?
   • What do you think competitors will do (if anything) in response to changes in your company’s development plan?
   • Do you think that accelerating development of connected cars will help grow the company?

What to Submit

This memo should be a Word document of 1–2 pages in length using double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins