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While we all recognize the importance and necessity of innovation
for long-term sustainability, it may be difficult to kick-start
initiatives or build momentum in your organization. The following
six steps will get you started, helping you drive breakthrough
innovation from the top down, while getting everyone in the organization
involved including your customers. |
One:
Start at the top by committing senior management to drive new initiatives.
Two: Set realistic goals and strategies that focus on delivering
incremental short-term wins - long term growth will inevitably result.
Three: Connect and communicate with all your stakeholders
(especially customers) about what you are doing - share the vision, build excitement and momentum.
Four: Develop customer-driven knowledge systems
to drive new initiatives.
Five: Share the risk across the enterprise by organizing
team-driven initiatives -
never isolate or alienate innovators, give them the resources they need to succeed.
Six: Focus on measuring innovation productivity as
it relates to bottom-line performance.
They say the road to success is paved with failure. So why not nurture a
culture and philosophy of innovation which teaches employees that it is
far better to try, fail and learn than not to try at all. Get all ideas
out in the open, discuss them with everyone and invite as many corporate
volunteers as possible to participate in making them reality. Call
Metacorp to help you get things started with an Extreme
Thinking™ Workshop, we help companies transform ideas From Mind
to Matter™.
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