Standards Development

Scope

Fundamental to innovation, and to the survival and growth of an organization, is the generation, selection and development new ideas.

Ideas have the ability to make incremental improvements in the efficiency of an organisation through to prompting re-evaluation of its entire business model.

This international standard provides guidelines for the management of ideas, the people who have them and the benefits they bring. It aims to address idea management at both the strategic and operational level through:

- The culture and leadership of an organisation

- Opportunity and risk management

- Intrapreneurship

- Problem solving

- Tools and methods for managing creativity and ideas

This international standard is applicable to all organisations, regardless of size and activity. It supports the Innovation Management System of ISO 56002 but can also be used by organisations and individuals not implementing such a system.

It describes the management framework (see clauses 4 to 10) and will provide information on applicable tools and methods in Annexes.

Purpose

CEN/TC 389 developed the series CEN/TS 16555, composed of 7 parts. ISO/TC 279 further developed a correspondent series of standards ISO 56000. CEN/TC 389 decided the adoption of this series as EN ISO standards, replacing the correspondent parts of CEN/TS 16555.

ISO 56007 is fundamental for the operational management from ideas to new innovations and will help European users to improve their capabilities for the management of their innovation activities. It will replace CEN/TS 16555-3:2014 and CEN/TS 16555-6:2014.