{"id":13589,"date":"2015-08-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/scerl-the-ultimate-innovation-management-cheat-sheet\/"},"modified":"2022-04-05T16:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T21:04:18","slug":"scerl-the-ultimate-innovation-management-cheat-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/scerl-the-ultimate-innovation-management-cheat-sheet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Innovation Management Cheat Sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Check lists and memory joggers can be helpful.<\/p>\n

Recently, I decided to fly as comfortably as possible on a long trip to San Francisco: jeans, sneakers, etc. I packed my \u201cwork\u201d clothes in my bag. Upon landing, I realized\u2014too late\u2014that I had forgotten my dress shoes and belt.<\/p>\n

I now own a new pair of dress shoes and a new belt that a nice lady working at a store on Union Square sold to me. Check lists and memory joggers can also save money.<\/p>\n

What of the innovation management<\/a> practitioner? Can a checklist or memory jogger save their program<\/a>? In other words, what is their equivalent of the pediatrician\u2019s APGAR<\/a> score?<\/p>\n

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Innovation Management
\nTaking a page from anesthesiologist Virginia Apgar\u2019s infant-saving book, I suggest SCERL:<\/p>\n

Sponsorship (executive buy-in<\/em>)<\/b>
\nCentrality (business focus<\/em>)<\/b>
\nEngagement (community contribution<\/em>)<\/b>
\nResolution (outcomes<\/em>)<\/b>
\nLeadership (personal growth<\/em>)<\/b><\/p>\n

The innovation practitioner scores each factor a 2, 1, or 0. The higher the score the better (think bowling, not golf). The practitioner adds the factor scores for the SCERL score, which ranges from 10 and 0. Ten is the Holy Grail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
SCERL Factor<\/b><\/td>\n2<\/b><\/td>\n1<\/b><\/td>\n0<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
S<\/b>ponsorship<\/span><\/td>\nCommitted\/ multi-threaded executive support<\/span><\/td>\nFair weather\/ single-threaded support<\/span><\/td>\nNo support<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C<\/b>entrality<\/span><\/td>\nAlignment with business charter\/ goals<\/span><\/td>\nHit-or-miss alignment, depending on the function, region, or business unit<\/span><\/td>\nComplete misalignment<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
E<\/b>ngagement<\/span><\/td>\nAuthentic\/ growing participation across the enterprise<\/span><\/td>\nParticipation in pockets\/ limited growth<\/span><\/td>\nDeclining\/ disengagement<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
R<\/b>esolution<\/span><\/td>\nPotential of ideas\/ innovations vetted\/ tested<\/span><\/td>\nLimited testing<\/span><\/td>\nInnovators left to their own devices<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
L<\/b>eadership<\/span><\/td>\nGrowing commitment and ownership of the innovation process and outcomes<\/span><\/td>\nLimited commitment and ownership\/ individual heroics prove the exception to the rule<\/span><\/td>\nParticipants adopt a \u201cwait and see\u201d attitude\/ no sense of commitment and ownership<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nReality jibes well with the chestnut, \u201cWhat gets measured gets managed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Power of Simplicity
\nThe challenge for many large organizations is not that they shy away from actively managing their innovation programs. Rather, they create overly elaborate dashboards and struggle to find the clear link between cause and effect: Are we healthy? How would we know?<\/em><\/p>\n

Virginia Apgar observed the same consternation and confusion with the pediatricians attempting to assess infant health in a clear, uniform way. This observation caused her to create what became the APGAR score \u2014 effective, in part, because of its memorable simplicity.<\/p>\n

The time has come for innovation management practitioners to adopt their own version of the APGAR score: a clear, simple means of assessing the health of innovation within a company.<\/p>\n

Apgar\u2019s mnemonic has saved countless lives. Perhaps SCERL will save a couple of innovation programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check lists and memory joggers can be helpful. Recently, I decided to fly as comfortably as possible on a long trip to San Francisco: jeans, sneakers, etc. I packed my \u201cwork\u201d clothes in my bag. Upon landing, I realized\u2014too late\u2014that I had forgotten my dress shoes and belt. 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