6 Tips for Building Innovation Into Your Company DNA
Forbes
PJ Chan works closely with one of Kotter International's oldest clients, and she's experienced first hand the failure that follows a project-managed approach to innovation.
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Anne Egros's curator insight,
June 15, 2013 7:13 AM
Despite the astronomical speed of technology changes, most organizations still operate within the traditional top-down authority model.
The article suggest that the future of organizations is "Holacracy" where the organizational power is distributed according to a set of explicit processes and structures designed to achieve the company’s purpose.
In a Holacracy, every role in the organization has an explicit, documented purpose and set of accountabilities, and roles exist separately from the individuals who happen to be filling them at the time.
Billy R Bennett's curator insight,
January 25, 2013 8:37 PM
Too much emphasis on the word social may distract older leaders from comprehending the real power of social business collaboration - faster, better results. Daanish Kahn offers a great set of five myths about the use of social collaboration tools that needs to be understood by any leader seeking to get results and high levels of engagement. My favorite is the first one... Myth 1 – Social Collaboration platforms are not safe and secure.
Aligning and engaging people more quickly in your organization are some of the best reasons to look seriously at adopting social collaboration tools. We've seen this in our work when such tools allowed teams to connect and overcome natural barriers to get work done. I heard someone say recently, if you are not engaging them at least don't do things to disengage them! Most work systems do just that for many workers. Allowing and learning Social Collaboration Tool use is an excelleng step in the right direction. |
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Only 1 in 5 chief executives believe their companys investment in innovation are paying off.
A very important article from Kotter. However, it is not often that I have an opportunity to disagree with John Kotter but here goes...
#1 of his six tips begins "Innovation only comes by invitation." My take if you are inviting innovation you are not establishing the kind of environment Kotter next describes.
Actually, you only get innovation by creating cultures of innovation. Some do it temporarily with innovative events (designs, agile, kaizen, etc). However sustained innovation only comes with a business designed to be innovative - which also means removing barriers to innovation.
Here is a good question... Is your organization designed to consistently deliver surprisingly great solutions to customers?.... or is it designed to maximize risk avoidance? My experience is that it is the later rather then the former. Which one do you see as innovative?
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