ISO Technical Committee 279 - Innovation Management
Innovation Management is increasingly recognized as an essential way of managing the innovation life cycle within organizations, establishing an innovation ecosystem, and developing professional competencies. ISO Technical Committee 279 (TC 279) oversees the collection of innovation management standards, to include the recent ISO 56001 Innovation Management System. The full listing of TC 279 standards for innovation management can be found here. Key publications include:
ISO 56000 Innovation Management — Fundamentals and Vocabulary
ISO 56001 Innovation Management System — Requirements
ISO 56002 Innovation Management System — Guidance
ISO 56003 Innovation Management — Tools and Methods for Innovation Partnership — Guidance
ISO 56004 Innovation Management Assessment — Guidance
ISO 56005 Innovation Management — Tools and Methods for Intellectual Property Management — Guidance
ISO 56006 Innovation Management — Tools and Methods for Strategic Intelligence Management — Guidance
ISO 56007 Innovation Management — Tools and Methods for Managing Opportunities and Ideas — Guidance
ISO 56008 Innovation Management — Tools and Methods for Innovation Operation Measurements — Guidance
ISO 56009 Innovation management — Example Implementations of Innovation Operation Measurements
ISO 56010 Innovation Management — Illustrative Examples of ISO 56000
The ISO 56000-series is relatively new, and TC 279 has been prolific in the number of standards that have been released over the past five years. Here is a listing of additional ISO standards that are under development:
ISO 56011 Competency Framework for Innovation Management
ISO 56012 Innovation Management — Innovation Ecosystem Management — Guidance
ISO 56013 Innovation Management — Innovation Portfolio Management — Guidance
NOTE: PROCESS 360 is voting member of the U.S. committee for TC 279, overseen by ANSI (ansi.org), which is the U.S. voting body and oversees all ISO standards on behalf of the United States.