The path to realizing innovation is a complex technology and human exploit that requires leadership and stimulation, both intellectual and financial, if it is to meet user and market expectations.

Organizations across their divisions and sectors work on many similar technologies. They often start from an idea without awareness of what has worked (or what hasn’t) for others. Sometimes, they simply don’t know what’s out there.

The most promising technological and innovation opportunities require collaboration among organizations, functions, and leadership. To realize success, groups need to break down silos and allow/encourage people to working collaboratively across boundaries. That’s a challenge for most organizations let alone the highly diverse, hierarchical, complex technology enterprise and its industrial base. Innovation Leaders must inspire, initiate, and incubate horizontal teamwork needed to drive technological success across an enterprise. Applying a different philosophy that can offset natural and cultural instincts to rely on vertical relationships and formal structures accelerates the drive toward innovation and reform.

Our philosophy includes an emphasis on sharing information to others with a vested interest. With an understanding of the successes (or shortcomings) of solutions or approaches technologists can learn from one another, reduce redundancies across programs, and make available resources go further. By shining a light on the best path forward and helping programs connect with other pools of expertise, this philosophy establishes and connects the conduits needed to help stakeholders think differently and overcome technology challenges by instilling a collaboration model that becomes second nature.

SplitRock leadership employs a philosophy that enables organizations to promote, demonstrate and benefit from the power of horizontal teamwork.

To achieve more, our teams set their sights beyond individual projects or trending technology areas. Instead, SplitRock works to identify technology needs that are shared by stakeholders throughout enterprises and for which no common solution currently exists. By focusing on advancements that can be applied across multiple teams and capabilities, we are able to approach technical challenges holistically and develop frameworks, architectures, and justify the resources organizations should invest to solve requirements and consistently enhance your operations.

Prototype opportunities are identified by integrating capability gaps and operational needs identified by stakeholder community with available and appropriate technology.

Comprehensive technology due diligence is conducted to identify and validate the suitability of mature technologies to meet critical gaps. Prototype opportunity definition is synthesized in response to the threat, time and funding available to deliver solutions. Delivering a fully developed and actionable portfolio of prioritized prototype opportunities enables executives to make timely investments to safeguard innovation.