UNE-EN ISO 56007:2024

This document provides guidance on managing ideas and opportunities by:

explaining the reasons for and the value of managing ideas effectively;

describing how to prepare for idea management;

addressing people and organization issues, including culture;

detailing idea management activities and their interrelationships;

outlining activity and process evaluation considerations that are important for innovation success.

This standard addresses a sub-set of processes as described in ISO 56002 identifying opportunities, creating concepts, and validating them. The activities within these processes, when managed together, bring forward viable innovation concepts for development. Developing these concepts into solutions and deploying these solutions is outside the scope of this standard and is addressed by ISO 56002.

This document provides guidance for any innovation type along the continuum from incremental to radical innovation, as defined in ISO 56000.

This document is intended for:

any user involved in innovation, whether for an organization or individual;

any organization type or scale;

any understanding of value realization, whether for profit, social impact, changes in strategic direction, or any other purpose;

This standard can help organizations learn how to systematically manage their ideas and opportunities to realize greater value from idea management 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.