How Challenge-Driven Innovation Works

The Challenge-Driven Innovation (CDI) framework offers organizations a systematic process for identifying specific problems and opportunities, screening and prioritizing them, and developing actionable solutions. Instead of posing general questions to obtain general feedback, CDI offers a diversity-based crowdsourced innovation methodology to identify targeted problem areas and to develop actionable solutions for them. Information systems and collaboration tools such as idea management systems, social network and collaboration tools, and workflow management platforms fall short when looking for structure and focus on a specific problem or opportunity. CDI offers a solution by offering a challenge-driven, diversity-based, workflow-managed framework and methodology that addresses the specific needs of an organization. The 7-step process includes identifying key focus areas, designing a community for focus areas, devising a community-specific reward system, formulating an effective challenge statement, designating a challenge owner, promoting the challenge, and measuring the engagement and innovation results.