Sunday, April 16, 2023

Innovategovernance

Organizations should identify patterns for value-led governance; promoting engagement, motivation, and innovation as these are vital aspects of top-performing enterprises in the modern economy. 

Business ecosystem is complex, nonlinear, uncertain, interrelated, and hyper-connected, full of opportunities and risks. Governance should be understood via multidimensional lenses such as value, innovation, people-centricity, and needs to be enforced holistically. When governance is done properly, it is actually a great tool to harness change, facilitate innovation. 

It’s important to apply an interdisciplinary governance approach, providing common business rules and language, setting proper principles & standards, developing appropriate business and use cases, etc, for encouraging cross-functional communication and collaboration, and improving the overall organizational agility and maturity.

Value-driven governance: Corporate governance is a guidance system for the achievement of planned objectives to value creation. Governance as an effective approach to complement management practices should be an enabler to realize multifaceted value, not to the extent of restricting the aspiration to achieve its vision through an ambitious mission. However, sometimes, governance value is tricky because it's subjective in the eye of the beholder as it could mean different things to different people. Value creation or destruction is often embedded in the myriad day-to-day decisions and behaviors taking place across the organizational hierarchy.

In practice, governance is about guiding and regulating corporate activities to serve the fundamental purpose for which the organization was created in the first place, enforcing value-creation. The risk is inherent in everything a business entity does, strong governance actions contribute to improve risk intelligence. Governance is the procedural steps taken in the value creation process that is intended to mitigate the perceived level of risk. Effective governance facilitates the successful business transformation while ensuring there are adequate controls in place to operate responsibly in accordance with its values seamlessly.

Innovation governance:
The digital era upon us is about innovation; governance is the steering wheel to keep a straight line or take a turn at that velocity of innovation management. However, the governance aspect and innovation don't immediately come together depending on the context in which innovation is in development. As often innovation is about thinking out of the box, breaking down old knowledge or practices; but governance is about setting the constraint, building a framework for improving organizational effectiveness and efficiency. A good governance standard helps to build a creative culture with the very characteristics such as strong vision and leadership, outward-looking rather than insular, willing to accept a degree of risk and experimentation, etc, rather than just limiting organizational potentiality.

Innovation governance is neither linear nor single dimensional. Innovation governance should include how to monitor the pulse of innovation including idea generation, prioritization and risk management. Often, a holistic view of improving governance effectiveness is unforeseen; you need to have the interdisciplinary experts and innovators involved. Otherwise, you run a risk that you'll invest to improve process governance and find you've made organizations less competitive. Governance is critical for meaningful innovation; as innovation cannot be separated from a specific business purpose and in a broad context. It is critical in adopting a social-technical-ecological perspective of governance models, in order to improve innovation excellence.

People-centric governance: High-mature people-centric organizations are not the sum of functional pieces, but an integral whole. Corporate governance indicates a relationship with the Board, different levels of management and variety of stakeholders, and it is a facilitation system to enhance communication and harness collaboration. Without people, governance is only the mechanism to limit business potential. Effective governance today needs to be people-centric, enhancing cross-functional connection, trust, and communication within the intangible assets of organizations.

There are varying factors that decide governance effectiveness; you can automate a lot of the mechanical activities in GRC to improve its efficiency, but human factors need to be considered more carefully. People-centric enterprise vision, strategy and governance model should enforce alignment of the various silos towards customer-centric products with analysis mechanisms. Strong governance ameliorates the effects of management practices, shape flexible business structures and functions to improve business agility and maturity.
 
There are both hard and soft components in business governance which have either direct or indirect impact on corporate performance. Organizations should identify patterns for value-led governance; promoting engagement, motivation, and innovation as these are vital aspects of top-performing enterprises in the modern economy. In a high mature organization, governance must be viewed and assessed at the enterprise level, keep developing the next governance practices and achieving governance holism.

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