From the course: Balancing Innovation and Risk
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Commit to innovation
- To make innovation sustainable, it's got to be embraced at every level of your organization. This means that leadership celebrates innovation successes and innovation failures. Like the Tata Group does with its Dare to Try award, which is bestowed on the team with the best idea that didn't succeed. It also means that employees aren't just expected to innovate, they're given time for it. Like Google's 20% time program, where engineers and project managers are granted 20% of their day to work on projects unrelated to their job duties. If your people aren't treating innovation as a top priority, gather leadership for an exercise called Commit to Innovation. It's designed to prompt action through discussion of the following three questions. Number one. What three activities can you start doing today to be more innovative? Examples of activities might include, I'll work with X department or Y person to encourage…
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