Innovation Success
What makes innovation succeed? At Qindle, we see seven critical factors. For many of our clients, we represent success factor #7: an interdisciplinary team and in-house innovation accelerator. Through our EXPLORE, ACCELERATE, and CREATE approach, we connect people, secure leadership support, and align stakeholders, helping to strengthen all other success factors along the way.

The Seven Success Factors

1. Consumer orientation
   Keep your customers front and center. Continuously track consumer needs, competition, culture, regulation, science, and technology. Build a company culture that thrives on foresight and agility.
2. Leadership with vision
   Don’t let the past define your future. Instead of predicting tomorrow based on yesterday, shape a vision and purpose that serve as a compass in uncertain times.
3. Innovation with purpose
   Innovation must have a clear “why.” Without it, short-term performance and financial goals will always take priority and progress will stall.
4. Guided innovation
   Innovation is open-ended, but it still needs direction. Roadmaps, quick scans, prototyping, qualitative research, stakeholder alignment, and adaptable processes keep you on course without stifling creativity.
5. Collective decision-making
   The era of top-down decisions is over. Effective innovation requires engaging all relevant stakeholders and empowering passionate champions to drive momentum.
6. Risk-taking
   Playing it safe is the riskiest move of all. Let competitors chase the obvious paths, your advantage lies in bold, entrepreneurial bets, even when they seem unconventional.
7. Interdisciplinary teamwork
   Ideas alone don’t change the world, teams do. Success depends on creative, cross-functional talent skilled in workshops, ideation, visualization, storytelling, prototyping, and UI/UX design.

Qindle’s tools and methods are designed to meet these challenges. Nothing we do is off the shelf. We adapt our process to fit each partner’s needs, culture, and context, ensuring tailored programs, tools and workshops that solve actual business challenges.