Innovation

To build a highly innovative organization, it’s important to make sure that your company is open minded to embrace diversified people, diverse perspectives, and prepare for multiple innovation scenarios.

People are same, also different; we are the same because we live in the same hyperconnected and interdependent world, use digital technology enabled tools to communicate and collaborate cross boundarily, learn, work and live more conveniently in the dynamic world now.

People are also different. with the diversity of thoughts, character, cognitive abilities, skills, styles. To bridge our difference, accelerate innovation and harmonize the better world, it's important to strengthen communication, deepen understanding, develop empathy and professional competency.

Strengthen multifaceted connectivity: The business system is complex and the organization needs to change frequently. There are different business dialects, communication styles, and organizational contexts are situation driven. There are gaps and cognitive spectrum limitation. To identify and strengthen missing links, business management, especially at the senior management level, needs to gain the contextual understanding of the inter-connectivity of both visible and invisible business success factor, lead iterative, evolutionary, revolutionary, or disruptive innovation accordingly.

The challenge for any business innovation is to fine-tune a successful structure that helps to empower people and enforce business relationships to unleash the collective potential. That starts with seamless communication and frictionless collaboration. The great communicators can communicate objectively with strong logic, clarity, and understanding. overcome those communication obstacles, master different business dialects and convey the right message in the right format to fit different audiences for strengthening business relationship links and improving communication effectiveness.

Harness interdisciplinary collaboration: As an innovator, you need to be vulnerable to hear the ideas challenged from a viewpoint different from your own for spurring creativity. Collaborative process management supports more-effective innovation execution through the usage of social software tools that augment human actions to better mirror the way work is performed. It’s critical to build an effective collaboration framework, set rules, align people, process and technology to bring diversified people together for a clearly defined vision, generate fresh ideas, create business synergy and achieve strategic goals effortlessly.

All forward-looking organizations intend to become people-centric business now. Social business process management resides at the intersection of business process and collaborative innovation activity. It's about understanding the nature correlation & connection of people, process, and technology. Collaboration becomes a whole lot easier if we give people the time to hear what they have to say and what they want to do without the constant distraction or unhealthy competition. Spending time with diversified people to find out what drives them; what their issues are; what their fears and perceptions might be. So innovation processes can be optimized to improve innovation success rate.

Amplify influence: There are things you can do to increase the likelihood of inspiration occurring. To innovate is to think and do things differently. There is innovation gaps, blind-spots, frictions. Great influencers are in demand to make a difference. Influencers define the true purpose as a helpful instrument to make influences consistently; they need a set of influencing tools to amplify influence impact effectively. Business professionals with solid interdisciplinary expertise have the ability to review the past and perceive the future based on their own knowledge and perception, they have the ability to identify key leverage points in which the non-proportional influence can be made. They can initiate cross-boundary communication to accelerate innovation.

It is possible to set the common principles to bridge the difference and amplify innovation. Great innovators are able to shape other people's views or opinions towards their own views or perspectives and push for progressive changes. Everyone has a voice and every voice carries weight. Influence is made via asserting, persuading, influencers present ideas via confident persuasion and interdisciplinary expertise, persuasive negotiation & idea exchanging, to get others’ see your point of view, make tradeoffs, enforce trust, harness communication, etc. In order to make profound influence to move the world forward, you must demonstrate high levels of cognitive intelligence, various skillsets, and have strong ethics, integrity, and empathy. You should keep developing professional competency, enforcing cross disciplinary conversation, developing the best and next practices to harness innovation

In the digital era of information abundance and fast pace of changes, never stop thinking, learning, and innovating. With clarified vision to innovate and strong leadership to influence, resourceful innovation leaders demonstrate the multidimensional competencies to formulate creative ideas or alternatives solutions to complex problems. Professional influence requires strong character, determination, discipline, dedication, practice, and persistence in the present and a continuum. To build a highly innovative organization, it’s important to make sure that your company is open minded to embrace diversified people, diverse perspectives, and prepare for multiple innovation scenarios.

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