Case Study
Equipping teams and leaders to solve complex challenges more effectively.
Starlight wanted to embed a process and culture for innovation across the organisation to ensure their people could come up with better solutions for seriously ill children and their families.
Innovation
Inventium has partnered with Starlight since 2016 to equip cross-functional teams and leaders with the skills to innovate and generate better solutions to their trickiest challenges.
Engaged and aligned senior leaders on the key ingredients necessary to create an organisation where innovation can thrive, such as strategy, roles, process and culture
Equipped 36 “champions” with the tools to take a “child-centric” and customer-led approach to innovation
Conducted a benchmarking analysis to understand Starlight’s baseline performance on the nine key drivers of innovation
Supported innovators through specific innovation projects by providing tactical mentoring and support
Engaged middle management in how they can see innovation as a crucial part of their day-to-day role and support their teams to apply the innovation process to daily business challenges
Engaged Starlight’s innovation team in Inventium’s Intrapreneur Club so that they can connect, grow and learn with other like-minded intrapreneurs
Our Approach
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The application of Inventium’s Best Practice Innovation Process and science-based toolkit has meant that Starlight has been able to capitalise on taking a child-centric approach to new programs.
Notably, innovation has become an established practice within Starlight, with employees frequently working through the innovation process to identify rich opportunities and solve problems creatively. In addition to this, leaders and managers across Starlight are able to innovate daily, seeing opportunity to apply their innovation toolkit to solve problems and produce better solutions.
Starlight ranked in the Top 10 for Most innovative government, education and NFP ideas in 2019 with their “Starlight Moments” submission.
Starlight has successfully created a culture where innovation can thrive from the bottom-up.
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“We were an organisation who would have seen innovation as focusing only on idea generation. But what really resonated with us (was) Inventium’s scientific approach and (the science) within the innovation process. It sparked the beginning of us having a more comprehensive understanding of innovation.”
Starlight
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