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Innovation-friendly Organization

The Key Elements

Build Innovation Into Your Organization

Success depends on both what you do and how you do it. There are specific elements that help you and your company to be more innovative. It's a blend of culture, methodologies, infrastructure, innovation structures, and work practices... More

Innovation-friendly Organization: Key Components of an Innovative Organizaton

Most Innovative Companies: Common Characteristics ▪ Climate for Innovation

Key Components of an Innovation-friendly Components

Innovation is the key to survival and success. Companies that continuously innovate will create and re-invent new markets, products, services, and business models – which leads to more growth.

Innovation is founded on your enterprise's ability to recognize market opportunities, your internal capabilities to respond innovatively, and your knowledge base.

So, the best thing to do to guarantee growth is to build a sustainable innovation organization around the following components:

❶ Vision and strategy for innovation

❷ Culture supporting innovation

❸ Processes, practices and systems supporting innovation

❹ Top management team leading innovation >>>

❺ Cross-functional teams mapping the innovation road >>>

❻ Empowered employees driving innovation.

Just keep in mind that though there are specific elements that help you and your company to be more innovative, it's not a matter of simply following directions. Success depends on both what you do and how you do it and when you do it.

3 Strategies of Market Leaders ▪ Google 9 Notions of Innovation

Innovation Policies and Infrastructure ▪ Balanced Organization

8 Steps To Creating an Innovative Organization ▪ Innovative Workforce

Jazz of Innovation → Structure & Improvisation / 11 Guiding Principles

If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don’t put them in a drab, ordinary space.

Tom Kelley

IDEO

The 'secret formula' for building innovation into an organization is actually not very formulaic. It's blend of culture, methodologies, infrastructure, and work practices.

Tom Kelley

IDEO

Keep a flat organization
in which all issues are discussed openly.

Bill Gates

Microsoft

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, and poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

Steve Jobs

Apple

Transform Your Business into an Innovative and Creative Culture

Culture of Innovation: Core Components

People Power

→ Leaders of successful, high-growth companies understand that innovation is what drives growth, and innovation is achieved by awesome people with a shared relentless growth attitude and shared passion for → problem solving and for turning ideas into realities... More

→ 10 Commandments of Innovation

Creating a Culture for Innovation

→ Corporate Culture is important for success. The question is how culture can drive successful innovation, and what corporate leaders can do to establish the kind of culture that leads to creative dissatisfaction with the status quo and truly innovative behavior... More

29 Obstacles To Innovation

Lack of ownership by Senior Leaders
Innovation not articulated as a company-wide commitment.

Inspirational Leader: 10 Roles

10 Ways To Murder Creativity

Ask for a 200-page document to justify every new idea

5 Strategies for Creating a Culture for Innovation

Inspire: Provide an inspiring vision; lead innovation; emphasize opportunities, not problems; trust your people... More

Inspiring Culture: 5 Elements

Creating a Sustainable Culture of Innovation

An 8-Step Process

Fence the Garden: Identify your company’s biggest naysayers and serve them with an “aspiring innovators restraining order.”

5 Strategies for Creating a Culture of Questioning

Be a Model: Lead by example; constantly search for new opportunities; ask lots of “Why?” and “What if?” questions

Strategic Innovation

7 Dimensions

Organizational Readiness – the ability to take action

Six Organizational Models that Support Innovation

Innovation Project Team

How To Break Down Barriers To Communication

Organize cross-functional teams for all sorts of projects. Make them as loose or as formal as you see fit but be sure that there is good mixing and that all of the departments contribute.

Cross-Functional Teams Mapping the Innovation Road

In the new era of → Systemic Innovation, it is more important for an organization to be cross-functionally excellent than functionally excellent. Cross-functional teams, either formal or informal, need to be formed. These teams can also find new businesses in white spaces between existing business units... More

Inspirational Business Plan: Successful Innovation

Development Risk: "The things we fear most in organizations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity." – Margaret Wheatley.

How To Prevent Innovation (Humorous Tips)

Establish a "30-minute rule": for the first 30 minutes after an idea is expressed only negative comments can be made... More

9 Signs of a Losing Organization

3 Strategies of Market Leaders

Market leaders win by building an adaptive, innovation-friendly organization and establishing an inspirational growth culture. The best companies put a lot of efforts in developing great leaders and establishing winning teams... More

Best Practices Google: 10 Golden Rules

Encourage Creativity. Google engineers can spend up to 20 percent of their time on a project of their choice. There is, of course, an approval process and some oversight, but basically we want to allow creative people to be creative. One of our not-so-secret weapons is our ideas mailing list: a companywide suggestion box where people can post ideas ranging from parking procedures to the next killer app. The software allows for everyone to comment on and rate ideas, permitting the best ideas to percolate to the top... More

Perfect Brainstorming: 10 Rules

Innovation Jokes

Humorous Biz Plan: How To Succeed In Innovation

Innovation Management Team: "Few great men would have got past personnel." ~ Paul Goodman...

Market Analysis: "People buy more weight loss books/diets (tools) than all other books, yet people are fatter than ever. Why? Most diets do not address the psychological reasons (mindset) for eating. The same holds true for innovation." ~ Stephen Shapiro

16 Ways to Avoid the Hassle of Commercializing University Technology

By: Terry Collison

❷ If you have a technology policy and a procedure, make sure nobody in the university community actually understands what it is. Complexity is good... More

References:

Managing Challenges for the 21st Century, Peter Drucker
Building the Awesome Organization, Jana Matthew
Radical Innovation, Harvard Business School
The Road Ahead, Bill Gates,
In Search of Excellence, Tom Peters
Guide to Management Ideas, Tim Hindle
The 10-day MBA, Steven Silbiger
Extreme Management, Mark Stevens
Relentless Growth, Christopher Meyer
The Art of Innovation, Tom Kelley
Managing New Products, Thomas D. Kuczmarski
Managing Complexity, Robin Wood
The Leader's Guide To Lateral Thinking," Paul Sloane
The Innovative Enterprise, Harvard Business Review

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