TS EN ISO 56007
Innovation management - Tools and methods for managing opportunities and ideas - Guidance
This document provides guidance on managing opportunities and ideas by: — explaining the reasons for and the value of managing ideas effectively; — describing how to prepare for front end innovation activities; — addressing people and organization issues, including innovation leadership, culture and strategy; — detailing innovation activities and their interrelationships; — outlining activity and process evaluation considerations that are important for innovation success. A sub-set of processes are addressed as described in ISO 56002, i.e. identifying opportunities, creating concepts, and validating them. The activities within these processes, when managed together, bring forward viable innovation concepts for development. Developing these innovation concepts into solutions and deploying these solutions is addressed by ISO 56002 and is outside the scope of this guidance document. This document provides guidance for any innovation type along the continuum from incremental to radical innovation, as defined in ISO 56000. This guidance is intended for: — any user involved in innovation, whether for an organization or individual; — any organization type or scale; — any understanding of value creation and realization, whether for profit, social impact, changes in strategic direction, or any other purpose. This document can help organizations to systematically manage their opportunities and ideas to realize greater value from front end innovation activities to arrive at go/no–go decisions for development. There is no one method or set of tools for use in all situations. Choice is impacted by a range of related considerations to be addressed in this document.
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TS EN ISO 56007 provides guidance for managing opportunities and ideas in innovation management. It explains how an organization or individual can make sense of early-stage innovation inputs, assess them, and identify which ones are worth taking forward. The standard is focused on the front end of innovation, where concepts are formed, opportunities are recognized, and initial validation begins.
Why opportunity and idea management matter
In general technical terms, opportunity management is about recognising potential areas of value from market needs, internal capabilities, or stakeholder expectations, while idea management turns those possibilities into more workable concepts. The guidance addresses why this matters, how effective idea handling can support value creation, and why leadership, culture, strategy, and organisational readiness influence results. It treats innovation not as a one-off creative act, but as something that can be structured and managed.
Relationship to ISO 56002 and the scope boundary
The document supports the part of ISO 56002 concerned with identifying opportunities, creating concepts, and validating them. Its focus is on bringing forward viable innovation concepts for development; developing those concepts into solutions and deploying them is addressed in ISO 56002 and is outside the scope of this guidance document. The standard also applies across the innovation continuum from incremental to radical innovation and recognises that no single method or tool set fits every situation.
- Helps structure front-end innovation activities.
- Addresses innovation leadership, culture, strategy, and organisational readiness together.
- Clarifies the relationship between opportunities, ideas, and concepts.
- Supports go/no-go decisions about concepts to advance for development.
- Applicable to different value-creation goals, including profit, social impact, or strategic change.
- Publication Date: 8.11.2023
- Standard Status: U (Yürürlükteki Standard/Standard)
- Publisher: TSE
- Document Language: en
- ICS Classification: 03.100.01 Şirket Organizasyonu ve Yönetimi (Genel); 03.100.40 Araştırma ve Geliştirme
- Pages: 76
- Source Standard: EN ISO 56007:2023
- International Equivalents: EN ISO 56007-EQV; ISO 56007-EQV
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