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Define the Inputs

Once you have defined the end goal, you need to give people specific goals to reach our larger goals. Every employee should be aware of the importance they play in achieving the company’s goals and how they share responsibility for innovation.

  • Communicate trust and acceptance of new ideas. Policy and business practices should align with words that encourage trust, learning, creativity, and innovation.
  • On a leadership level, you should set goals that support innovation by focusing on the future instead of on daily operations.

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Unlocking The Right Kind of Innovation Culture

Unlocking The Right Kind of Innovation Culture

Every organization must unlock its innovation culture in its own unique way.

What works for Google and Apple might actually kill innovation in other companies. Effective best practices must be artfully adapted to the unique personality of your organization.

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How Innovation Intent Shapes Culture

Without the focus an innovation intent provides, people tend to think innovation belongs to someone else (such as Research and Development) and assume it isn’t part of their job.

The lack of a thoughtfully defined innovation intent also makes it difficult for leade...

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The Three Types of Innovation

The Three Types of Innovation

Here’s a model that any organization can apply to set up its definition of innovation and take a portfolio approach to allocate its time and effort:

  • 70% Incremental innovation: small changes in processes, products, services, strategies, etc.
  • 20% Sustaining innovati...

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Competitive Advantage Is Temporary

Products, services, and even business models become commodities over time. If organizations do not continually invent and reinvent their competitive advantage, they risk being disrupted into obsolescence.

Culture is the only sustainable competitive advantage

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Every Function Should Have Its Own Definition of Innovation

Here are some examples of innovation intent statements that can do just that:

  • Finance: To deliver financial insight that drives strategic business decisions, new market opportunities, and the innovation process.
  • HR

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"Measuring innovation also involves setting specific goals that will help fuel the process—the things you do internally to help you hit your targets. When you give people targets, they take on responsibility for hitting them. And in the process, they produce experience...

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Define the Outputs

Define the Outputs

Measuring profitability and the support of your customers is important, but it doesn’t tell you what specific behaviors will lead to more profits and more satisfied clients in the future. Your metrics need to define the end goal and encourage innovative practices.

Innovation metrics th...

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Measure What’s Meaningful

  • Metrics give us direction. Leaders set goals and measure progress; often this focus on easily measured metrics like speed, efficiency, accuracy, or profits.
  • Innovative behaviors are difficult to quantify, and most companies don’t have innovation metrics.

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"For many companies, coming up with ideas often isn’t the problem. The challenge is turning ideas into something real that delivers an impact. This is where metrics can make the difference between no ideas, lots of ideas that go nowhere, and real innovation."

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"It’s really not that difficult to decipher your innovation culture by looking at leadership behavior, organizational structure, business processes, metrics and incentives, rewards and recognition, and the stories and symbols that reinforce (or inhibit) innovation. By ...

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A Culture of Innovation

A Culture of Innovation

Culture is the collection of unwritten rules, norms, and values that influence people’s behavior. When it comes to innovation, especially disruptive innovation, an organization’s culture can be either the rocket fuel or death knell of an organization’s ability to grow and thrive....

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