Innovation Management - Management Systems for Innovation

Given today’s complex and rapidly changing challenges, organizations must continuously improve and renew their value creation and offerings. Drivers include increasing demands from customers and citizens, digitalization, and sustainability. Many understand the need for innovation but struggle to leverage their efforts effectively.

Individual activities such as collecting ideas, brainstorming, or collaborating with startup companies are not enough. Experience and research increasingly show that a systematic approach and a comprehensive perspective are needed to strengthen an organization’s or context’s innovation capability. This is where innovation management comes into play!

In 2019, the world’s first guiding standard for innovation management, ISO 56002, was published. This came after 10 years of international collaboration, with Swedish participation from SIS/TK 532, where representatives from RISE are involved. Today, there is active international work to develop ISO 56001 as a requirement standard, which is expected to be published in September 2024.

Standards - What’s the Benefit?

The guiding standard can be used as a checklist to initiate and maintain systematic innovation work in a company, municipality, or other context. The standard highlights the importance of continuously working with and developing leadership, strategy, culture, processes, metrics, user insights, methods and tools, roles and responsibilities, competence, resources, and so on - to collectively strengthen innovation capability.

For the first time, there is an internationally anchored and common framework that takes a system perspective on innovation work. The innovation management standard can be integrated with other management systems, such as those for quality or environment.

HOW Do We Help You?

Through, for example, training, innovation capability analysis, and research studies, we help companies, public organizations, and environments to get a picture of their current state and desired states, as well as increase understanding of how to work systematically with innovation and prepare to succeed in their innovation efforts.