Move from fragmented innovation efforts to a structured system that creates measurable value by aligning strategy, governance, and sustainable innovation.

ISO 56001 provides the global standard for evaluating innovation management systems. It enables evaluation of the leadership, processes, and governance that make innovation successful more often across an organization.

What Is ISO 56001? The Global Innovation Management Standard Explained

Most organizations invest in innovation, yet many struggle to scale it, sustain it, or realize value as a return on their investments. ISO 56001 changes that by providing frameworks for systematic thinking and structure to innovation management. Introduced in 2024, it’s the first global requirements standard for innovation management systems (IMS), defining what organizations need to manage innovation in a systematic and evidence-based way. It provides a means of achieving international certification for innovation management, for organizations choosing to pursue it, while tremendous value is realizable without certification.

Instead of leaving innovation to chance or isolated teams, ISO 56001 takes a systems approach. In this way, innovation isn’t treated as a set of tools or one-off projects, but as the combined effect of: 

• Leadership commitment and governance
• Strategy aligned with organizational goals 
• Structures and resources aligned to realize value from innovation efforts
• Leadership and people aligned to maximize value creation
• Projects defined and managed with defined processes that are appropriate to the goal and context, and effective tools
• Measurement and improvement through learning cycles 

And what makes ISO 56001 even more powerful is that it doesn’t stand alone. It aligns with other ISO standards that organizations already rely on, making innovation part of the same trusted management framework.  

Innterprise Benefits

• Realizes substantial, rapid, and precise value creation for users, customers, employees, and other stakeholders
• Empowers a systems approach for driving and managing innovation activities
• Lays a solid foundation for all types of improvement, innovation, and transformation
  • Incremental and continual improvement
  • Business, digital, and green transformations
  • Circular economy and sustainable development
  • Expansionary and Revolutionary innovation
• Establishes a common framework and ways of working that support collaboration in innovation activities
• Prepares your organization for ISO 56001 Certification with no additional documentation, which can
  • Enhance the legitimacy of your innovation efforts internally
  • Boost the organization’s reputation externally
  • Attract customers, employees, partners, and investors

Innterprise Features

• Systematic realization of value from innovation efforts
  
• • Innterprise is provided on our innovekt.app platform, so your Innovation Management System is secure and available to your organization 24/7/365 worldwide from any internet-capable device
  • Assess your organization’s readiness for ISO 56001 implementation and develop your strategy
  • Manage your Innovation Opportunities Portfolio
  • Manage your Innovation Project Portfolio
  • Translation of intent to value via defined innovation systems and methods
  • Plan and manage Internal Audits of your Innovation Management System
  • The benefits of ISO 56001 are extended, amplified, and accelerated by our portfolio of systems
  • Each system uniquely empowers innovation of products, processes, services, business models, and other aspects

• Clear intention of innovation activities and context
• Clear and reinforced leadership roles and responsibilities
• Defined support for innovation
• Evaluation of system adherence by both internal and external resources
• Improvement of the system is designed in