Innovation Enablement

Develop innovative organizations, teams, and leaders
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Build a robust system to drive innovation

Innovation Enablement is a data-backed approach to help organizations, teams, and individuals become more innovative. It answers "How does innovation happen?" and helps you get there through:

  • Assessments
  • Skills Trainings
  • Innovation Systems Design
  • Innovation Systems Workshops
  • Coaching
  • Organizational Transformation
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How does innovation enablement work?

Delve’s Innovation Enablement Process. Step 1, Start with an innovation assessment. Step 2, Identify areas ripe for improvement. Step 3, Deploy trainings, workshops, coaching, or embedded innovation guides. Step 4, Redo assessment.

The Ingredients of Innovation

Our innovation assessment is built on a research-backed, data-driven framework that describes the ingredients of innovative organizations. The assessment highlights where your organization is set up for innovation success – and what might be getting in the way.

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Nested within this framework are over two dozen ingredients that the assessment measures. Together, these ingredients 1) suggest innovation failure modes your organization may be experiencing and 2) highlight leverage points where interventions may have the highest impact.

Meet the Innovation Enablement Expert

Taylor Cone, Director of Innovation Enablement, Delve
Taylor Cone
Head of Innovation Enablement

Taylor creates the conditions for innovation to thrive. As Delve's Innovation Enablement leader, he helps transform the way clients cultivate, deliver, and measure innovation. Prior to Delve, Taylor’s journey included launching multiple startups, teaching and coaching at the Stanford d.school, receiving several engineering patents, and guiding whitewater rafting trips across the Western United States.

Our Recent Thinking

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