ISO/TR 56009:2025
Innovation management— Example implementations of Innovation Operation Measurements (ISO/TR 56009:2025) get published in July of 2025. To help TC279 experts and NSBs further understand the standard,here is a brief introduction.Please also find the abstract and sample from ISO website.
Abstract:
https://www.iso.org/contents/data/standard/07/92/79286.html?browse=tc
Read Sample:
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/en/#iso:std:iso:tr:56009:ed-1:v1:en
ISO/TR 56009:2025 provides some illustrative examples of how organizations of different kinds, sizes and innovation objectives can apply ISO 56008, the International Standard on innovation operation measurements, to reduce uncertainties and risk.
Q&A
This column provide standard Q&As to give people general understanding of TC279 standards.
Q: What is ISO/TR 56009: 2025?
A:The full name of ISO/TR 56009:2025 is Innovation management— Example implementations of Innovation Operation Measurements. It is a technical report which could be used together with ISO 56008.
Q: How ISO/TR 56009: 2025 being developed?
A: It is developed by ISO/TC279 Working Group 3 with the selected team of experts with deep experience leading, or consulting on, the innovation management. The examples cover almost all kinds of organizations, including Mid-size company, Not for Profit organization, Govenment organization, SME, Spin-off company, and large company. The project start from 2022 and finally published in July of 2025.
Q: Why ISO/TR 56009 is important?
A: Innovation involves risk-taking in a manner fundamentally different from established operational activities due to the unknown realm faced by an organization in its innovation attempts, which are generally characterized by the potential for costly errors, failure and needless waste of time, material and financial resources. Measurements, along with well-thought-out corrective actions, learning for improvement and suitable changes in behaviour, are the basis for evidence-based decision-making and planning. The quality of decision-making depends on how well people understand the innovation uncertainties and issues they are facing, how they choose what to measure, how they implement the measuring and present the results for action, how management considers the results, and what learning is drawn from the measurement itself.
Q: What is the relation with other standards on Innovation Management?
A: ISO/TR 56009 is one of the members of ISO 56000 families. ISO/TR 56009 tight with ISO 56008. All the examples in ISO/TR 56009 show how organizations can ask critical questions to determine the appropriate indicators to measure, and what kind of metrics they can choose or design based on the guidance from ISO 56008. The examples also illustrate how the actual measurement procedure is implemented and by whom, with additional information on how the resulting data can be presented to the management team expected to make decisions. Some typical examples of decisions made are shown, together with the associated learning that can be of value to the innovation operation team and the organization at large.
ISO 56008 provides guidance for organizations on designing and implementing appropriate measurements to make evidence-based decisions for achieving objectives effectively, efficiently, ethically and in a timely manner while minimizing waste. ISO 56008 provides guidance to organizations on addressing the fundamental issues of an organization's innovation operations.