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Organization and People The Heart of Your Innovation Process |
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By Vadim Kotelnikov, Founder, Ten3 BUSINESS e-COACH – Innovation Unlimited, 1000ventures.com
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"No inspiration is worthy until someone takes action to make it work." |
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Innovation Structures
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Funds Required and Uses: "Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it." – Steve Jobs... More9 Signs of a Losing Organization
Balanced Organization: 5 Basic Elements Empowered Employees (Metal):
Organizing for Innovation In the new era of systemic innovation, innovation is not limited to new products and services. The organization structure itself is an integral part of the innovation process. Leading firms are constantly reorganizing to ensure that the organization conforms to the innovation and other task requirements, rather than the other way around.
"One of the dangers divisions present to innovation is that they can create internal competition that thwarts cooperation and learning within the larger firm." To counterpart this tendency, successful companies apply various strategies such as:
Case in Point
Intel Having recognized that rapid growth often causes jobs to grow in scope and requirements more quickly than the people in them keep up, Intel assesses people's "bandwidth" or capabilities relative to the expanded scope of their current job, as well as assessing future capacity. Innovation Management Policies for Large Corporations
By: Bill
Gates, Founder of
Microsoft
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rivalry between different parts of the organization
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flat organization in which all issues are
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Inspirational Leadership: 10 Roles Inspirational leaders create an inspiring culture within their organization. They supply a shared vision and inspire people to achieve more than they may ever have dreamed possible. They are able to articulate a shared vision in a way that inspires others to act. People do what they have to do for a manager, they do their best for an inspirational leader... More Do you want to encourage extraordinary performance from your people? Do you want them to do great things? If yes, then you must create an inspiring corporate culture to inspire and energize them... 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 Teams – the Heart of Innovation
"What energizes people is the broader horizon, the excitement of new challenges and big opportunities. When their leaders offer this excitement, people come alive."1 The one-on-one relationships that individual workers have with their managers, and the trust, respect, and consideration that their managers show toward them on a daily basis are also at the core of an energized workforce. "Getting the best out of workers is above all a product of the "softer" side of management - how individuals are treated, inspired, and challenged to do their best work - and the support, resources, and guidance that is provided by managers to help make exceptional employee performance a reality."2... More
Create an Innovation Incubator A common – and fatal! – mistake in larger organizations is to give innovation projects to existing line managers who are running a regular business and are too busy with their routine problems. "New products or services are like delicate seedlings that should be kept in the greenhouse until they are stronger, and not left to fend for themselves. The regular business manager is too busy meeting monthly deadlines and targets to give the prototype business the attention it needs. It is better to put the seedlings in the care of a special department, sometimes known as an innovation incubator. This department has different goals and objectives, it works on a longer schedule, and it is headed by an innovation director who has a high level of authority in the organization."4... More
Top Management Team... Cross-Functional Teams Leading Innovation... Teams of Empowered Employees... Managing Knowledge Workers... The Power of Passion... Idea Management... Managing Creativity In Your Business Environment... Managing Innovation by Cross-functional Teams... In-Company Ventures.. Creative Chaos Within a Guiding Structure... The Challenge for Small Enterprises... Innovation Practice Tips... Cases in Point IDEO and their Hot Studio System... Cases in Point HP... Cases in Point Silicon Valley Firms... Cases in Point GE... Cases in Point BP...
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