I run across a lot of organisations that say that 'innovation' is one of their core values, but their actions don't support innovation at all. Every once in a while, one of them decides that it is time to get serious about innovation, and that's when I get called in to help. As John has described, one of the first issues that these organisations deal with is the question of how to be more innovative. Often their first step is to work on generating more ideas, but we know that idea generation usually isn't the problem - idea execution is. Coming to grips with this is one of the key steps to take in becoming more innovative. Another key step is figuring out who should be responsible for innovation?
Jonathan Crowley from NESTA frames the issue nicely - organisations face two choices: create an innovation team that is responsible for driving innovation, or make innovation part of everyone's job. There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches.
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