A well-defined innovation strategy is essential for achieving sustainable growth and staying competitive in today’s dynamic markets. By establishing a strategic roadmap, you can effectively allocate resources, organize innovation activities, and build a balanced portfolio that aligns with your organization’s vision. At Valen, we develop customized innovation strategies that support both immediate objectives and long-term goals, ensuring your innovation efforts are impactful and aligned with business strategy.
Whether you seek to drive sustaining, commercial, or disruptive innovation, our strategy services provide clarity and direction, optimizing resources and guiding innovation efforts across your organization.
Valen Group’s approach begins with understanding your company’s vision, growth goals, and business challenges. We conduct a high-level assessment of your current innovation activities and results to identify key areas for growth and improvement. Our innovation strategy framework incorporates foundational elements such as innovation principles, pacing, and scope, ensuring each aspect of your strategy aligns with organizational objectives.
Our tailored approach considers all organizational levels—corporate, division, and team—leveraging cross-functional insights to create a cohesive, actionable strategy.
Evaluate your current innovation approach to identify strengths, gaps, and opportunities, providing a solid foundation for strategic planning.
Create a customized innovation roadmap, defining resource allocation, activity types, and innovation platforms aligned with your growth goals.
Gain insights from industry-leading practices to guide the development of an effective and competitive innovation strategy.
Ensure your organizational structure, processes, and decision-making support a successful innovation strategy, from ideation to execution.
Map the customer journey to identify innovation opportunities, focusing on creating value at each touchpoint.
Develop a comprehensive service blueprint to structure and guide service innovation, ensuring alignment with customer needs and market demands.
Strategic Alignment
We link innovation strategy directly to business strategy, ensuring every initiative supports long-term growth.
Resource Optimization
Our approach focuses on making resource allocation decisions that maximize productivity, ROI, and organizational impact.
Cross-Functional Expertise
By working across all levels of the organization, we create a strategy that leverages insights from every department.
Tailored Solutions
Our flexible, collaborative process adapts to your specific needs, providing strategic options and an activation session to finalize the plan.
Valen’s Strategy Consulting Practice provides fact-based, strategic analysis that guides strategic decisions and creates a competitive advantage.
Assess and Define
Begin with a comprehensive assessment of your current innovation portfolio, goals, and resources to identify areas of opportunity.
Develop Roadmap and Strategy
Define an innovation roadmap that aligns with your growth objectives, specifying the types of innovation, resource needs, and timelines.
Collaborative Strategy Development
Engage in a collaborative session to ensure strategic alignment, leveraging insights from cross-functional teams for a balanced approach.
Implement and Optimize
Develop an execution plan and performance metrics, ensuring that your innovation strategy is adaptable, measurable, and continuously optimized.
Monitor and Refine
Track progress and make iterative improvements to maintain alignment with market trends and organizational goals.
