8 building blocks to drive innovation and creativity in your teams
8 building blocks to drive innovation and creativity in your teams
03 Nov 2021
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"Innovation takes strategy, discipline, and intentionality". Expert Leo Chan, Founder and Chief Innovation & Creativity Officer at Abound Innovation invites us to imagine a different approach to the process of driving a culture of innovation within organizations. Based on an eight-step building block process he used during his time working in an innovation role at Chick-fil-A.
Table Of Contents
Chapter 1: Structure
See the pros and cons of the centralized and decentralized structures when it comes to innovation strategy and the expert's merged approach that gathers the best of the two worlds.
Chapter 2: People
How important is to have a dedicated team to advance innovation? The strategy of forming champions to advocate for innovation allow employees to unleash creativity and develop new ideas by getting involved in every stage of development.
Chapter 3: Process
Understand, imagine, prototype, validate and launch. This five-step based process is reinforced for every individual in the organization and embedded into the culture through a continuous innovation process which includes educational innovation sessions around process.
Chapter 4: Taxonomy
Establishing a common taxonomy or language around innovation is important to the culture as it helps to shape communication and guarantee the same understanding, clarity and consistency when talking about innovation.
Chapter 5: Programming
Shaping innovation culture involves thinking of different ways of shaping mentality and teaching principles and techniques to drive innovation--always considering how meaningful these interactions are for the different demographics within the organization.
Chapter 6: Communication
How to share stories of innovation within organizations? By stimulating employees to have enthusiasm around innovation and to communicate it internally with the same enthusiasm, companies can try and consolidate a culture in which creativity and innovation are celebrated and rewarded.
Chapter 7: Thinking framework
Chan introduces five different frameworks to guide thinking applied to innovation which includes: valuing collaboration; valuing diversity; nurturing safety in the organization, freedom of judgment and a culture of embracing failure and taking risks.
Chapter 8: Space
A different space dedicated to every step of the innovation process can help employees to build a new culture of innovation in the physical environment. These neighborhoods allow collaborators to visualize and experience the culture.
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