5 Strategies for creating a Culture of Innovation VadiK Inventor Author Founder   ① Inspire Provide an inspiring vision and strategic direction; lead innovation by example; emphasize opportunities, not problems; trust your people; stimulate generation of radical ideas; make innovation fun.   Winners disrupt, losers get disrupted. Which group do we want to belong to? ~ Vadim Kotelnikov   ② Organize Set rules, create a system, weighted guiding principles, a guiding structure, and processes supporting innovators, innovation, and idea management. Define the innovation process publicly.     ③ Synergize Synergize innovations and diversities; facilitate cross-pollination of ideas to nourish synergy innovation; create and empower cross-functional teams.   Culture is a Tao-style leader – people are hardly aware of its existence, but it fills their beliefs, and gets things done in a specific way. ~ Vadim Kotelnikov             Coaching by Example My 10-3-1 Strengths Mission-driven Innovator Impact Innovator Harmony Innovator UX Innovator Proactive Futurist Blue-Ocean Innovator Innovation Guru         Innovation is actually a very simple phenomenon. Innovation is about Love: do what you love to do, and love your customers.         ❹  Empower. Create a culture of questioning; encourage risk taking; give your people freedom to → experiment, → fail, → learn from failures, and start again more intelligently.  >>> ❺  Reward.  Measure progress; reward both individual and collective contributions; celebrate success, make business fun. The reward system should recognize that developing innovative solutions and breakthroughs is of greater value than managing or → improving the existing well-established processes and products. High-Performing CULTURE  >>  Inspiring  ‖  Team  ‖  Customer-focused  ‖  No Blame Innovation Management  ●  Climate  ●  Innovation Team >> Cross-functional >> Empower     → 9 Signs of a Losing Organization What Do You Want To Change in the Culture?   Be specific: What would you → change? What are your organization’s barriers to innovation? What would it take to do that? How will you make this work? Who can help you, and how? How long would it require? What do you need to do → before making the change?  >>> How could you be successful by breaking the vicious loop where your → culture discourages innovation and thus itself cannot be changed?     How To Transform Your Business Into an Innovative and Creative Culture