Organizations essentially use various strategies, innovation and creativity to reinvent the products and services they offer in order to market demands and needs. It is an uphill task for organizations that have not initiated innovative programs to change. Therefore, innovation is very essential in making modifications and transitions to the business strategy that could in the long run result in meeting customers’ expectations and thereby creating a competitive environment in the market.
Innovation
Innovation is basically creating and delivering products and services to customers they are not sure of, but after seeing them, they develop the desire to possess them. Innovation is a processed idea or thought,s of a new creative method of a service or product that is already in existence and working well but has now been modified to fulfill a demand or market. Modification and change will now bring more revenue to the organization from the innovation process. For innovation, maintaining quality performance entails: encouraging and providing support to staff, participants and volunteers for learning. To add on to that, organizations should have a dynamic organizational culture that everyone understands and buys into it.
Design
There are key experimental designs normally considered as an impact evaluation that organizations should use in evaluating product and service output. Design could entail evaluations of the strengths and weaknesses of the organization. There are processes that use resources to transform the initial requirements like inputs, into specifications and characteristics for systems and processes. Design could be treated in different stages of a development process and integrated design as two or more processes. Review for design and development is generally a set of activities that evaluate adequacy and effectiveness of specifications and characteristics. An effective set of specifications and characteristics is assumed to have the potential to carry out activities and results that have been planned by an organization. Clear and manageable plans by an organization are coherent in determining product output. To add on to that, assessment models can be employed to ensure effectiveness of the expected design: human relations, internal process and rational goals (Pride, 2010, p. 78).
Evaluation of data entails:
- A collection of information regarding impacts and functioning of an organization
- Use of analysis and information to analyze the organization’s functionality
- Interpretation and analysis of gathering information to gain insightful effectiveness and impact of the organization
Creativity
Phases of the Phased Project Planning Process
Phase 1: Prepare
Laying out a foundation for strategic planning processes is the first in determining the rationale of the plan. It involves identifying the right stakeholders to determine what roles, information and resources are necessary for developing a timeline for the designed process. To start with, sources of data are to be identified to describe external and internal environment of the program. After the preparation, establishment of the strategic plan and identified data should be ready and indicated correctly.
Phase 2: Assess
In this step, a review of internal and external data related to the program is assessed. Towards completion of assessed steps, an analysis of external and internal environment of the proposed program should be considered in conducting an analysis of the organization’s strengths, opportunities and weaknesses. Assessing all areas in the organization helps discover pitfalls that are invisible and those that are rarely discovered by the organization's management.
Phase 3: Create
This level involves creating strategic plans by the Workgroup where documents describing the strategic plans are written down. Among these steps described could include:
- Prioritized program strategies
- Implementation of the process
- Evaluation process
- A revised five-year plan logical model
- Strategic plan document
A strategic plan helps in analyzing the intended process and determines whether the proposed plans are manageable and achievable.
Phase 4: Communicate
In the communication step, strategic plans and related program documents and programs are shared using the stakeholders’ program. It is required that the developed communication process is reviewed in considering the best way to put the intended process in action. After plans are articulated, it is then the duty of the organization its plans to stakeholders for analysis. The public also needs to know if their interests relate to the strategic plan (Kaufman 2008, p. 112).
Phase 5: Evaluation
The evaluation step is typically associated with collection and analysis of data about the progress made by the organization. The program uses data to evaluate findings on the progress of the planned program improvements. Consequently, it is coherent to determine how the program will actually evaluate data. For instance, the use of a database will help in the organization scrutinize and implement the program. It is important to note that a database needs to be simple to use and follow analyze.
How to Evaluate the Results of a Creative/Innovative Process for Continuous Improvement
Evaluation of creative and innovative results for continuous improvement of organizations should first be done through analyzing supply chains, product/services and operational delivery system. Identifying performance measures and assessment of techniques and tools for an organization’s effectiveness is similarly important in determining the extent to which performance is progressing in the organization. Fostering organizational learning and creative climate through endorsement of relations in the organization is vital in measuring performance goals set. In conclusion, undertaking risk management and cost benefit analysis of all approved trials in the organization will help in determining the extent in which performance is effective in the entity.
References
Pride, W. M., & Ferrell, O. C. (2010). Marketing. Australia: South Western Cengage Learning.
Kaufman, R. A., Guerra-López, I., Watkins, R., & Leigh, D. (2008). The assessment book: applied strategic thinking and performance improvement through self-assessments. Amherst, Mass: HRD Press.
