Company volunteers are welcome to collaborate (virtually) on two current STIM projects being run by Clare Farrukh.

The first project, Innovation Velocity, is testing approaches for companies seeking to gain a wider understanding of the time-based aspects of external and internal technologies and exploring the benefits of combining the internal and external perspectives. This involves interactive virtual workshops to:

• Test 16 dimension profile to assess how quickly a new technology external to the company is becoming relevant
• Test 3 part scoring review of Scheduling, Synchronising and Resource Allocation for internal technology projects
• Combining internal and external innovation velocity - for example to compare internal or external technology development paths or increase the speed of open innovation.

The second project, Making Innovation Management Tasks self-sustaining, considers how to make routine innovation management tasks more rewarding and better supported. This was raised by a STIM member and has attracted considerable company interest throughout the STIM Consortium. So far a number of academic and practical fields have been reviewed and interaction is requested in the following areas:

• Hold an online workshop or interview to add your company experience to the work
• Carry out the Directional Behaviour diagnostic survey in collaboration with Cihat Cengiz (CTM)