Series Overview
This overview introduces an article series covering several aspects of the Innovation Accelerator architecture, a scalable and sustainable operating model for innovation. The Accelerator is offered as an enterprise innovation service to Capgemini and Sogeti customers. The articles will provide insights to help those seeking or evaluating innovation service models to develop a good understanding of how the Accelerator can deliver value to their business. The Accelerator architecture is based on deploying highly integrated innovation pipelines that work in tandem with the enterprise core to deliver rapid business value aligned with strategic growth. This Accelerator model is an innovation in and of itself. On a fundamental level, the Accelerator consists of a framework, platform services and service models that instantiate into adaptive innovation business processes within the enterprise and beyond.![](https://labs.sogeti.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/Pillars-1.png)
Series Organization
Articles 1 – 3 will begin by providing the motivation for the Accelerator Framework and proceed to describe how the Framework facilitates developing practices and mindsets for innovation. Articles 4 – 6 cover the main capabilities delivered by the Accelerator Platform Services to empower innovation teams operating the innovation pipelines. Article 7 covers the service models available to deploy Accelerators across an enterprise as well as describe options to test-drive an Accelerator.Article Series Overview
Article 1 Enterprise Innovation in a World of Creative Disruption – This article will begin by setting the stage for the modern business challenges and environment CxO suites face every day. What are some of the megatrends with respect to the response to these challenges? What do the results look like? How is the very structure of the enterprise evolving to maintain competitiveness and create advantage in this type of environment? The article will address each of these questions and feature research by the Capgemini Digital Transformation Institute. Special coverage will be given to how the Accelerator architecture empowers an enterprise to respond robustly to the innovation imperatives. Article 2 Creative Production Flows for Distributed Innovation Teams – The Accelerator Framework embraces design-centric radical collaboration to build trust and democratize innovation within the enterprise. By adopting a set of practices and mindsets, teams can develop a creative flow similar to the flow individual artists achieve when working on a piece of art. Moreover, the Framework includes a shared mental model for co-creation that employs a human-centric approach to creatively solve complex and challenging problems as well as design novel, visionary breakthrough products, services, and innovations.![](https://labs.sogeti.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/01/team.png)
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