{"id":20814,"date":"2022-01-18T10:48:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T09:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=20814"},"modified":"2022-01-18T10:48:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T09:48:19","slug":"innovation-where-do-you-start-metrics-can-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/innovation-where-do-you-start-metrics-can-help.html","title":{"rendered":"Innovation: where do you start? metrics can help&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Innovation has to become a core competency, a business process itself, that can be continually improved. And because you can&#8217;t manage what you don&#8217;t measure, that requires metrics. But what metrics?<\/p>\n<p>I helped write this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/insights.sap.com\/\">SAP Insights<\/a>, with some thoughts and examples of innovation KPIs.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite? Making sure that you have a target <em>minimum<\/em> for project failure (because if you don&#8217;t hit that, you&#8217;re being too conservative&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insights.sap.com\/innovation-metrics-figure-out-which-projects-to-pursue\/\">Innovation Metrics: Figure Out Which Projects to Pursue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insights.sap.com\/innovation-metrics-figure-out-which-projects-to-pursue\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20819\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/innovation-metrics-article-thumbnail.jpg?resize=321%2C527&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"527\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@mcverry?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Mikail McVerry<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovation has to become a core competency, a business process itself, that can be continually improved. And because you can&#8217;t manage what you don&#8217;t measure, that requires metrics. But what metrics?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[390,618],"class_list":["post-20814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-digital-transformation","tag-innovation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mikail-mcverry-yBvef_mAaQ-unsplash.jpeg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-5pI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20820,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20814\/revisions\/20820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}