The ability to innovate is becoming more and more important in today's business world. Whether it is innovating on products and services or innovating on how you deliver and operate, organizations need to embed good practices. Innovation empowers people to be creative, extends trust in a meaningful way and drives engagement.
Sometimes it is appropriate to create a center of excellence that drives the capability and other times you need to build it more as a community of practice throughout the organization. One thing remains constant in both approaches - innovation comes from connecting people with diverse needs and experiences. Innovation does not occur in an echo chamber or in environments where employees do not feel safe to raise their ideas.
If you'd like to explore the options, including how to create trust, start running your own hackathons to produce proof-of-concepts and prototypes or run an executive hackathon for idea and opportunity storming, please contact me.
