Creating a Community of Corporate Innovators
Becoming the Go-To Place for Innovation Practitioners
How Can Large Organizations Nurture Innovation?
When we think of the innovation ecosystem in Calgary, we often think of the fast-paced environment of start-ups or the thrilling agility of tech companies. However, what is the role of large organizations when it comes to nurturing and collaborating within the innovation ecosystem and why doesn’t innovation come naturally to large organizations?
Enter the Calgary Innovation Peer Forum, a consortium of innovation practitioners from large organizations who are taking on the toughest challenges facing organizations today, helping them safeguard against disruption and drive transformational change.
How can these innovative ideas be successful in a large corporate machine?
These are the question the Calgary Innovation Peer Forum aims to solve.
Our Partners
“Unbounded Thinking has helped set up the foundational principles for the Calgary Innovation Peer Forum as the go-to place for corporate innovation practitioners to get together and discuss common cultural hurdles around corporate innovation.
Shannon Phillips, and Unbounded Thinking, provided the roadmap and framework for us to follow, providing us with the behaviours, metrics, portfolio, and skills required to innovate. From the Innovation Maturity Assessment, to the Innovation dialogues, this group has helped level up the quality of discussion around innovation in Calgary and beyond.”
Mike Procee, Founder of the Peer Forum
Bringing Structure to Innovation
Unbounded’s Human-Centered Innovation Framework (HCIM) was adopted by the Peer Forum and used to turn innovation into a management system for large complex organizations.
Monthly sessions were held to go over the framework in detail to allow practitioners to learn the foundations of becoming an Innovation management specialist.
Measuring Existing Capabilities
The first step involved using Unbounded’s Innovation Maturity Assessment (IMA) to allow each practitioner to understand the different areas of an Innovation management system.
Each practitioner completed the assessment before reviewing the results as a group to gain a better perspective of Innovation maturity.
Turning Innovation From Buzzword to Blueprint
After working through the maturity assessment, practitioners came together monthly to work through Unbounded’s Innovation Blueprint sections:
Thesis
Framework
Portfolio
Scale
Problem Solving
Skills
Our Path Forward
Our Mission
Unbounded Thinking is dedicated to supporting the Peer Forum to be the go-to place for Innovation practitioners to share insights, connect, and learn together.
Future Outlook
Build Innovation capabilities and capacity throughout Calgary and Alberta to create Canada’s most advanced Innovative ecosystem that includes a balance between start-ups and large organizations.
Unbounded continues to support and partner with the Peer Forum through structured learning, problem-solving, and thought leadership.
