Origin, Use and Meaning of the Innovation Diamond

This document seeks to present the instrument known as the DIAMOND OF INNOVATION and its “green version”, reveals the genesis from the results shown with the generation of the collection of books called: ASIAN FIRMS. Using these eight books makes it possible to discover the business model of the central countries (PR China, Republic of India) and Southeast Asia (Japan, South Korea, R. China-Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam), focusing on continuous Innovation. This process, which tested and perfected the instrument, is accompanied by companies from the industrial and Colombian primary sectors. The tool shows its ability to establish a diagnosis in a city, country, company in terms of Innovation and establish a strategy based on the eight points of the Diamond and accompany it with a hierarchy or strategic priority. To this end, the use of secondary tools is established, such as the STRATEGIC MOTHER MATRIX. It detects the behavior of the leading countries for each of the Diamond points, becoming “good practices”, and determines the backwardness or practices to improve, prioritizing each strategy to be developed, seeking to advance on the subject of Innovation. With the advancement of research, sponsored from the beginning by the Universidad Piloto de Colombia and its Business Administration program and research partners such as Grupo SASA and some farms in the Ubaté valley (Department of Cundinamarca), dedicated to the main production focused on In dairy, the “green” version of the Innovation Diamond is tested and launched, its reason for being: to prevent Innovation in a country, city, company, from being accepted simply for being Innovation, without considering its impact in the environment.