Developing Your Organization's "Innovativeness"
Defining innovation for your organization is not enough. You need to develop your organization's capacity to innovate, what we call your "innovativeness." This task is nearly impossible to do without outside help, because the risks are so high, the changes that are needed are so dramatic, and insiders have a bias towards protecting what is working well for them right now. But some of what is working now needs to be cannibalized to allow for the new.
- You start by defining innovativeness for your organization, for your business units, divisions, functions, regions, departments, etc. This means looking at your strategic business challenges and opportunities and deciding where innovation is critical to success.
- You then look at the innovation competencies you have to support this, and how these might be leveraged.
- You look at gaps - areas where your innovation competencies aren't enough right now.
- You create resourced charters and plans for leveraging your strengths and narrowing your gaps.
- You manage the change. Are you needing to radically change your innovativeness, or is an incremental change sufficient? This makes a big difference in the change management effort that is needed.
- You execute, evaluate and adjust. Execution requires a different team than the one what spearheaded your initial innovation efforts.
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Innovation isn't as hard as it seems