The success of innovation management is never an accident, it’s a holistic management process with an iterative thought-out planning and execution continuum.
Innovation is the differentiated business capability enabling the organization to ride on emerging trends and beat down competitions effortlessly. How well the organization manages innovation is based on varying factors such as how effective of the allocation of resources; how efficient of the innovation process or lack thereof; how fast they can make decisions, how consistently they are able to deliver the business result; how much risk they can afford to take and how big is the innovation impact, etc. Here are five aspects of innovation management maturity.
Increase the speed of innovation deliveries: With dynamic changes and fierce competitions, the speed of innovation also needs to be accelerated. The main barriers to speed up innovation are silos, change inertia, rule rigidity, inflexibility, static process, or bureaucracy, etc. Therefore, the organization needs to have the high adaptability to deal with emergent events, work against all odds, break down structural and management obstacles to enforce cross functional communication and collaboration. How effectively the organization manage innovation is based on varying factors such as information fluidity, decision effectiveness, resource allocation, as well as the overall manageability. There are both incremental innovation and breakthrough innovation, some innovation initiatives take longer time to mature and deliver business results than the others. Thus, it’s important to consider the impact that the innovation could make and the speed of innovation deliveries. Only focusing on individual line extension renovation rather than developing a broader portfolio perhaps limits innovation management to small incremental improvements and fail to result in significant step changes and revenue opportunities. Enterprises that are able to successfully innovate at a breakthrough level can increase the likelihood that they will dominate and prosper in new markets they create so that they are moving much faster than competitors and build value-added advantages.
Decrease the risk of the innovation process: Risk is part of innovation. Innovation Management overall has very high failure rate. Because innovation success depends on many factors such as talent, process, resource, etc. Part of innovation is not knowing how and for what you will use the budget, some innovation needs to be fed with more resources while others get better by starving them. Innovation risk would also broadly need to consider both endogenous and exogenous drivers.Thus, risk management needs to be an integral component of innovation management. A well-designed innovation risk management platform enables the management keeping focus, meeting the needs of leveraging the applicable innovation processes to manage risk in a structural way. Innovation leaders need to have the right dose of risk appetite and the high level of risk intelligence in order to take an interdisciplinary approach to manage innovation effectively and build an innovative powerhouse ultimately.
Leverage diversity to create meaningfully unique ideas: Though creativity is an innate process, the creative spark does not always originate solely in the individual, it can manifest in a collective setting. In that manner, you could say there is more collective creativity happening everywhere than many people have realized. In fact, diversity is the hotbed to spark creativity. It’s best to bring a group of people together with the cognitive differences such as varying backgrounds, complementary experiences, the spectrum of skills, unique competencies, cultural perspectives, and different personalities, etc, together in order to encourage divergent thinking and stimulate creativity. In the digital context, diversifying the diversity is truly about expanding the spectrum of modern diversity and embrace the multidimensional hyper-diversity such as cognitive diversity, creative diversity, skill diversity, cultural diversity, and personality diversity, etc, in order to build a culture of creativity and run a highly innovative organization.
Use the power of stimulus to create meaningfully unique ideas effectively: People are the center of innovation. To nurture the right atmosphere for inspiring creativity and encouraging innovation, it’s important to identify and empower your innovators by crediting people who thought of the brilliant ideas or talented staff who take risks to implement those ideas skillfully. Many leaders have begun using collaborative platforms and methodologies to orchestrate their organization’s talent and bring out their collective best thinking and creative potential to accelerate innovation and optimize their solution forming capabilities. The people-centric innovation management enables the management to guide their people by communicating effectively; assess the creative performance of their employees, achieve the maximum visibility of ideators and contributors and showcase success stories to help keep up the motivation level and use the power of stimulus to encourage creativity and reward innovators.
Digital innovation not only has the broad scope but also has deep context. The creative workplace is based on a triangle with three vertices: Culture, method, and people. Highly innovative organization is to create organizations in which creativity is a significant part of business culture and innovation has been managed masterfully to achieve high business value and improve customer satisfaction. The success of innovation management is never an accident, it’s a holistic management process with an iterative thought-out planning and execution continuum.
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