Command-and-control cultures, top-down decision making, lack of trust in people’s creativity, skills and passion, organizational silos and closed boundaries are the enemies of innovation.
The disruptive times we are living in, where whole markets and companies can disappear overnight and where the economy is increasingly exposed to the so called black & green swans that are totally out of their control, call for a strong innovation capacity, including complete reinvention if necessary.
Agile management with self-organizing teams, New Work hacks, collaboration, openness & transparency, constant learning as well as embracing a startup culture are the behavioral ingredients for fostering this much needed innovation culture and capacity. And, leadership commitment, organizational alignment and a clear business strategy are the inevitable ingredients for making bold innovation happen.
To do so, companies must adapt their approach to their innovation strategy by
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Aligning innovation strategy and goals to business strategy and objectives
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Creating safe spaces for innovation without fear for failure (a culture of trial and error)
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Training & teaching teams on state of the art innovation frameworks, methods and processes and providing them with the necessary tools
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Allocating the necessary resources to innovation systems and processes and choose the right team(s) of 'Inno-Prenneurs'
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Becoming radically customer-centric
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Driving and sustaining a culture for change
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Constantly capturing and generating value from external knowledge (open innovation)
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Sharing success stories throughout the organization to drive successful reapplication
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As AdVucators, we help Innovation Executives and their teams to put in place this innovation system (culture, tools, inspiration, ecosystems etc..) and develop the necessary “hard & soft” skills to develop pragmatic "Inno-Preneurial" strategies to get concrete "SMTM" type results from Innovation…