Innovativeness

An innovative organization isn't built in a day; it is an evolutionary journey, taking innovative leadership and long-term strategy.

Being innovative is a state of mind, as the purpose of innovation is to generate differentiated value by implementing great ideas, designing new business models, or producing intuitive products or services. 

From a business innovation perspective, the theme of innovation is the theme of organizational evolution. A truly innovative "story of the future" can literally spur creativity and catalyze transformative changes. Without innovation, without collective evolutionary human progress.

Innovation language: Speaking about innovation is very important. But in order to make innovation related conversation productive, all parties in or beyond the organization such as (innovation ecosystem) need to speak the same language. Otherwise, silos or miscommunication will stifle innovation. Besides common business language to enhance innovation, pattern language helps to see connectivity and interdependence, become design driven and creativity-led, figure out better solutions by peeling back the layers to find the root causes and address the issues systematically.

Innovators actively seek out new patterns, exploring new meanings or fresh ideas wherever you could discover them. Innovation leaders will build up a working environment to nurture creativity, encourage pattern discovery, enable dot-connecting activities such as cross-functional communication & collaboration, encourage the freedom of thinking and actions. As a matter of fact, establishing a language of innovation is the first, and perhaps the most important step toward building an innovative organization.

Innovation climate: Nowadays, innovation is less about taking a few innovative activities spontaneously, it’s more about taking structural effort to shape innovative mindset and habit. Just as we find energy is released from one steady state to another, we find innovation from our outer realities attempts to change to the steady state of inner self. Such energy is called innovation. Only in an open trusting space, creativity can flow smoothly and innovation can be catalyzed effortlessly

Creativity relates to idealism, empathy, inquisitiveness, learning agility, and process understanding. It’s important to keep the workforce open to innovation by cultivating a compelling future vision, and a flexible environment to catalyze innovation. The reality is that the environment is more in tune with climate change, as inner wholeness is constant which relates to universal knowledge, consciousness or sub-consciousness, and emotional cycles. Having transformational leadership, high organizational justice (trust); a participatory management style, multi-channel organizational communications and a fair recognition system with high visibility for all positive contributions will help in creating a great innovative climate.

Innovation interdisciplinarity: Innovation is about connecting wider dots to spur great ideas, Many complex problems are interdependent and hyper-connected, to deal with them effectively, silo and linear thinking should be replaced by multidimensional thought processes, and interdisciplinary understanding. Interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding is critical to discover patterns and rearrange the puzzle pieces for coming up with innovative solutions.

Creative environments are usually outward-looking rather than insular, people are more willing to learn or relearn, accumulate interdisciplinary knowledge or unique insight for figuring out optimal solutions; taking in consideration with people outside your current customers, and the design community, interacting with people from another industry, enhancing cross boundary communication & collaboration, becoming open to changes, accepting a degree of risks and experimentation, and stimulating more innovation of the disruptive type.

An innovative organization isn't built in a day; it is an evolutionary journey and takes innovative leadership and long-term strategy. Highly innovative organizations have the very characteristics of openness, transparency, collaboration, empowerment, respect for the value of people and adding value to the enterprises consistently.

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