Innovative Company: Top Management Team Supporting Innovation

Vadim Kotelnikov (VadiK), innopreneur coaching by example

Hello, my dear growth leader, harmonious innovator, and designer of corporate innovation system.

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Top Management Team Supporting Innovation

C-level and leadership support is a key driver of success of your innovation functions.

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This is achieved by creating a powerful sense of purpose and direction; aligning everyone with the company's mission, and values; developing yourself and others; motivating and communicating effectively, and developing an environment that motivates and empowers people to achieve extraordinary results.

Think about the corporate future in disciplined, yet creative ways and communicate your visions to your managers and employees.

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Top Management Team

"When I hire somebody really senior, the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself," said Steve Jobs.

Each top manager has responsibilities in functional areas but cross-functional systemic innovation must also be supported. Together the top management team must share the leadership of the company with the CEO.

They must understand and embrace corporate vision, strategic intent, new product visions, and understand how their roles and functions are strategically aligned and integrated, and coordinate their activities to support growth and opportunities-driven business development.

Together, they must develop the company's growth goals, plans and entrepreneurial strategies, develop and strengthen the corporate values, build an inspiring culture, attract and retain creative and entrepreneurial people in each of their functional areas.

To achieve that, you should build a sense of informality, creative dissatisfaction, trust, and a shared understanding of the future among the top management team members. The top team must be a model for all other teams and help each other succeed.

"All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them."