This document provides guidance on managing opportunities and ideas by: — explaining the reasons for and the value of managing ideas effectively; — describing how to prepare for front end innovation activities; — addressing people and organization issues, including innovation leadership, culture and strategy; — detailing innovation activities and their interrelationships; — outlining activity and process evaluation considerations that are important for innovation success. A sub-set of processes are addressed as described in ISO 56002, i.e. identifying opportunities, creating concepts, and validating them. The activities within these processes, when managed together, bring forward viable innovation concepts for development. Developing these innovation concepts into solutions and deploying these solutions is addressed by ISO 56002 and is outside the scope of this guidance document. This document provides guidance for any innovation type along the continuum from increm
