TS EN ISO 56007

TS EN ISO 56007 is a guidance standard for managing opportunities and ideas in innovation management. It helps organizations and individuals handle the front end of innovation more systematically, by clarifying how promising opportunities are identified, how ideas are shaped, and how more reliable decisions can be prepared before development begins.

Where opportunity and idea management fits in innovation work

In general technical terms, an opportunity is a need, trend, problem, or potential value area that has not yet been turned into a solution, while an idea is a proposed way of responding to that opportunity. This standard explains why effective idea management matters and describes how to prepare for front end innovation activities. It also addresses people and organization issues, including innovation leadership, culture, and strategy, together with the relationships between innovation activities and the evaluation factors that support innovation success.

Relationship to ISO 56002 and the scope boundary

The document focuses on a subset of the processes described in ISO 56002: identifying opportunities, creating concepts, and validating them. Managed together, these activities can bring forward viable innovation concepts for development. The later steps of turning those concepts into solutions and deploying them are outside the scope of this guidance document and are addressed in ISO 56002. The guidance is intended for any innovation type along the continuum from incremental to radical, and it supports the idea that there is no single method or tool that fits every situation.

• Relevant to organizations of any type or size, as well as individual users involved in innovation.
• Covers value creation and realization for profit, social impact, strategic change, or other purposes.
• Supports systematic decision-making before committing to development.
• Emphasizes that tool and method choice depends on the situation and related considerations.