The InnovationCUBE will help your organization find opportunities to create new values and improve the quality of your product, system, or service while reducing the wastes that cause high cost, poor quality, and slow time to market.  It does this by using a proven systematic process developed by the Institute over the past 30 plus years of working with thousands of project teams.  

Reduced Waste

Unlike traditional affordability efforts, the CUBE will help your organization look beyond the obvious visible costs like manpower and operations. The CUBE will allow you to systematically reduce the hidden costs that contribute to waste, poor quality, and high costs.

Improve Quality & Value

By using the CUBE in your affordability efforts, your team will be able to identify what values your end customer really wants and eliminate those that are not needed.

Increased Collaboration

The CUBE will get not only the members of your team agreeing on the same end in view, it will allow improved collaboration with your end customers, suppliers, and partners.  All domains will work together to identify cost drivers that can be reduced or eliminated.

Measurement

The success of any project requires immediate and continued measurement.  The CUBE will help your team stay on the right track using a measurement system that identifies the values required by the end customer while also measuring the wastes.  The CUBE will help ensure that your project values stay in line with your overall organizations values.

What the CUBE Is Not

The CUBE is not a random brainstorming system, untested theory or a loose set of tools.  It doesn’t require high creativity or deep technical skills.  It makes innovation accessible to every project team for any purpose.    Applications range from products, services and processes to organizational strategies and new business models.

Easily Learned & Integrated

The CUBE system makes innovation learnable, actionable, and repeatable.  The CUBE requires no special training.  It uses a learning-by-doing, “hands on” format.   Project teams begin to deliver results immediately.  The CUBE does not conflict with any existing continuous improvement methods.  Using the CUBE is just the opposite.  It strengthens Six Sigma, Lean, Design to Cost, Phase Gate Development and other initiatives.

The InnovationCUBE Step by Step

Often when people attempt to create new innovations they stumble because they misunderstand the process of making it happen.   Clearing the fog surrounding innovation is the first step in making the process understandable, repeatable and sustainable.

The Innovation CUBE will help your organization do just that. 

The CUBE will allow senior managers to measure the amount of innovation in their organization, ensure projects are in line with the organization's strategic goals, and ask project teams the right questions to encourage participation across the entire organization.

The CUBE will get project teams working together to reach the same goal, while enabling teams to look into the future to identify disruptive changes in future markets, technology, and competition.  Project teams will be able to quickly generate new ideas and borrow existing ideas from other projects, domains, and industries.  The CUBE will provide teams with a consistent and systematic measurement system to quickly identify solutions that improve the desired values while reducing the unwanted wastes.

The following is a break down of the Innovation CUBE by side explaining how each side will help your organization achieve lean innovation across all products, processes, and systems.