How to innovate?

  • How to innovate?

Contents

  1. Innovation basics: What is innovation?
  2. Measuring innovation potential
  3. Innovation in teams: How to form Innovative teams and team processes that drive innovation
  4. Culture and innovation: How to create an organizational culture that supports innovation and creativity
  5. Strategy and innovation: How to embed innovativeness and creativity into strategy

Innovation basics: What is innovation?

Measuring innovation potential

Measuring Innovation Potential: Traits that Predict Unique Thought

Innovation potential: Why and how to strengthen traits that predict unique thought

Innovation potential is the ability of a person to think in a unique and boundary breaking way. More than just creativity, innovation potential speaks to an individual’s capacity to generate novel and useful ideas that can inspire others and produce growth.
Creativity, Innovation, Employee selection, Five Factor Model (FFM), Diversity and Inclusion, Unique thinking, Evidence-based Innovation Management

Innovation in teams: How to form Innovative teams and team processes that drive innovation

Team processes that support idea generation and problem solving can boost innovation

Team processes that breed innovation: Idea generation, problem-finding and critique strategies

In order for a work team to thrive and develop innovative, paradigm-challenging ideas, creativity must be properly fostered. Working towards that requires that you, as a manager, recognize that creative output is inherently risky and vulnerable – especially when the pressure is high and the need for a useful solution is paramount (Paulus, 2000).
Evidence-based Innovation Management, Creativity, Innovation, Team Dynamics, Team Building, Idea generation, Problem solving

Culture and innovation: How to create an organizational culture that supports innovation and creativity

A truly innovative organization provides its employees with room to explore

Innovation and organizational culture: How to foster innovative thinking and promote innovation in an organization

Creativity and innovative problem-solving must be cultivated within an organization. While productive, useful idea-generation does require a degree of structure, and even deadlines, a truly innovative organization provides its employees with room to explore, pursue novel approaches, and even fail (Ciit, 2016).
Evidence-based Innovation Management, Innovation, Creativity, Organizational culture, Leadership
Toxic workplaces undermine an organization's capacity to innovate

Creativity killers: Toxic workplace factors that quash innovation and how to tackle them with evidence-based practices

A well-developed, well-run organization helps its employees to thrive. Under supportive, skilled management, individuals feel secure, trust that their organization values them, and feel liberated to raise concerns and propose new solutions to existing problems. A warm, relaxed, but stimulating professional climate tends to encourage innovative thinking as a result.
Evidence-based Innovation Management, Innovation, Creativity Killers, Creativity, High Performance Organization, Psychological safety

Strategy and innovation: How to embed innovativeness and creativity into strategy

Changing an organization requires to provide a meaningful and positive future orientation of your organization

Looking Ahead: Changing your organization’s future orientation to foster innovation

Is it time to reorient your organization’s outlook? Are you company’s goals too short-term and reactive, rather than far-reaching and proactive? Does it feel as though people are always scrambling to deal with emergencies and “put out fires”, when ideally your organization would be taking carefully planned steps?
Evidence-based change management, Change Management, Psychological safety, Goal setting theory, Future orientation

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