Office of Innovation: Creating Breakthrough Change Tomorrow’s success will be built on today’s innovations. Omega Group delivers a unique service to help organizations establish a formal innovation process and optimize the impact of innovation initiatives. The underlying driver of innovation is action. The Office of Innovation helps establish action-oriented behaviors by focusing in two key areas:

People • Provide hands-on Strategic Impact Training to selected members of the client innovation team to help them streamline the process for executing key ideas.   • Conduct periodic Innovation Training Workshops to infuse new thinking into the organization, drive the impact of new programs, and improve cross-functional collaboration.   • Act as an “Innovation Advocate” to help client-side innovators generate momentum for their ideas and reduce the cycle time for problem resolution. Process/Tools • Establish a formal innovation process in the client’s organization to move ideas from concept to launch.     – Capture innovative ideas throughout the organization     – Tap into the latent talent and skill of client-side innovators     – Help innovators connect to ideas     – Respond to innovation queries within the organization     – Identify innovation road blocks and obstacles     – Provide a framework to move ideas forward   • Identify appropriate tools to facilitate the innovation process.   • Lead a Senior Innovation Task Force.     – Evaluate innovative pilots and prototypes     – Prioritize high impact initiatives     – Provide client-side innovation lead with guidance and support to shape the culture of innovation   • Provide access to extensive innovation resources (e.g. articles, case studies, guest lecturers, and access to a panel of innovation experts) to create momentum for innovators.