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Organizing for Innovation
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Organizing for Innovation
Choosing, building, and preparing the right organization
Choosing, building, and preparing the right people
Developing an Internal Marketplace for Innovation
- ideas and functions of innovation
- flourish in a supplyanddemand environment
- reflected in the management attention
- Balancing Creativity and Value Creation
- weigh innovations
- select innovations
- prioritize innovations
- The Balance Changes as the Organization Matures
- Bias toward the creative
- Emerging companies typically place a higher premium on creativity. Their internal markets are biased toward the radical ideas and breakthroughs that can come from the creative process and then be used to leverage the young company into a competitive advantage. Many startups abound in creativity and radical new business models.
- Balancing creative and value capture
- As companies grow and mature, they learn to balance their creative processes with solid commercialization skills. It's a question of survival. Radical new business approaches are not enough to make a company succeed. It also needs excellence in execution and the ability to commercialize innovations that flow from the creative processes
- Focus on the value capture
- As companies continue to mature, the emphasis on commercialization surpasses the attention to creative markets. The management mantra becomes "profitability, asset utilization, capital management, efficiency, benchmarking"—all of which place more value on the value capture process.
- Five Steps to Balancing Creative and Commercial Markets
- 1. Develop innovation platforms for the different types of innovation you want to pursue
- These innovation platforms act as organizing principles for innovation. (Innovation platforms are very important, and a deeper description is provided later in this chapter.) Innovation platforms cut across the business unit silos and provide an honest perspective on the value of the innovations.
- 2. Create portfolios of projects in each platform
- Each project needs to be reviewed to ensure that the creative and commercialization markets are aligned and balanced. A portfolio that is overly rich in incremental projects signals an anemic market for creative ideas
- 3. Form internal and external partnerships and networks.
- Internal and external partners are essential to success. Today, leading companies such as Cisco and Millennium Pharmaceuticals work aggressively to complement their internal talent with their partners' capabilities.
- 4. Ensure that markets for creativity and commercialization are open and transparent.
- The last thing you want to do is create a closed internal market for either creativity or commercialization. Closed markets create an air of mistrust and can hide inefficiencies and inequities. Create semiannual, innovation events that provide visibility and total transparency. Make the events open to everybody, and make sure they're highly publicized
- 5. Guard against organizational antibodies that may limit or destroy your rejuvenated creative markets and processes
- Highlevel senior executives should be part of an Innovation Board in charge of rejuvenating the creative market. Such visible support is necessary to offset the inherent resistance to change in the established commercialization market.
- 1. Develop innovation platforms for the different types of innovation you want to pursue
- Bias toward the creative
- ideas and functions of innovation
Are Organizational Antibodies Blocking Innovation?
- The company suffers from the NotInventedHere syndrome. "We have always done it this way" mentality dominates decisionmaking. Failures are socially punished. The power structure supports status quo and fights change. Managers see supporting innovation as reducing efficiency and as a waste. Measures and rewards support a focus on shortterm efficiency. Innovations are funded based almost entirely on financial metrics. There is a lack of tangible commitment to innovation from top management. Innovators are ignored or rewarded unfairly. Ideas have nowhere to go. Innovation is treated as discrete events rather than as a daytoday activity.
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- Ingeniería Mind Map on Organizing for Innovation, created by Victor Hugo Vázquez González on 09/10/2017.
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