How to Sustain Innovation in Your Organization and in Your Persoanl Life
Learn the 78 ways to enhance creativity and innovation in organizations and also in your own personal, professional, social life.
In today’s world — A breakthrough concept, idea, product can put an organization ahead of its competitors usually for very short-period, as your competitor may copy and even better what you have done in — in much shorter time.
Innovation helps us create a new dimension of performance, future, benchmarks, standards, directions and improvements.
The need for constant innovation and reinvention is absolutely mandatory for survival in our present VUCA environment [Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous].
In the organizations, nations and communities — Sustained innovation comes from unleashing the creativity of people by making them recognize unconventional opportunities and improvement tools.
The innovation in an organization can only survive and thrive if its top Leadership help create the psychological and physical environment for sustained innovation at all levels.
Many leaders and organizations start with big-bang but later this fizzles out and every new initiatives of the management starts being looked-at as being just another fad of the crazy-leaders.
Employees in larger organizations tend to feel removed from the function of innovation and are less likely to take independent action or offer revolutionary ideas.
78 Ways to create, build, sustain a culture of innovation in your organization — many of these ideas can also be used in your personal and other aspects of life as well
1. Create a flexible culture of disruption — because If you don’t disrupt and reinvent yourself regularly someone else will
2. Proactive Self-disruption needs to be backed with top leaderships resolve for creating and sustain a culture of innovation
3. While reinventing and redefining your products and services — it is a brilliant strategy to go for minimum-viable-product as it is very difficult and all the time to create new product/services in short time
4. Get everyone involved — without involvement of each and every stakeholder involved and participating in your pursuits, it is impossible to even think about
5. For creating a culture of innovation, the top leadership has to be flexible in procedures and processes to make it facilitative to the long-term visions and objectives
6. Focus on studying and maybe even creating a new unthought off change
7. Be prepared to fail while trying newer ways, methods, ideas, solutions, perspectives
8. Encourage the people who challenge everything
9. Differentiate between people who are either resistant to change or the elements who wants to stall and obstruct FROM THE PEOPLE WHO THIK DIFFERENTLY and unconventionally
10. Go for and Implement a culture of trial and error
11. Make the seniors Encourage employees to take risks
12. Let the reverse mentoring be a part of your culture by making the people at the operational level select and go for new innovate projects
13. Test the validity of all the ideas and Don’t be afraid to kill something that doesn’t work
14. Make learning fun and a part of everyone’s KRAs/KPI
15. Engage employees, customers, partners, vendors as well as the world through crowdsourcing
16. Keep everyone updated with digital technologies & global best practices — blockchain and Artificial Intelligence have the potential to disrupt many industries
17. Look for simple solutions
18. Have a transparent reward, recognition and appreciation system
19. Ensure that there is 100% meritocracy
20. Help your employees solve their problem
21. Create a dialogue box — where the employees post their problems [which they could not solve or failed] and others solve them — for full read How to Bring Innovation to a Company in Success Unlimited Mantra
