InnoVate
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BARRIERS
- Politics
- Hierarchies - organisational structure used to suppress ideas
- Not invented here
- No expressed purpose for the organisation
- Too many ideas - lack of prioritisation / filtering
- Short management attention span
- Ring-fencing innovation (eg only the research group can innovate)
- Short-term funding
- Employees have no slack time
- Employees given inappropriate or too many tasks
- Deliberate hiring of uncreative people (eg military)
- Lack or reward structure (not necessarily financial)
SOLUTIONS
- Establish a company culture that encourages the discussion and propagation of new ideas
- Requires lead from the top
- Middle-managers are encouraged to take (some) risks (allowed to fail sometimes)
- Clear statement of the enterprise’s purpose, values, and goals
- Address management fear of
- risk taking
- slack
- Hire innovative, motivated people and trust them
- Give them an environment that structure the slack
- For example, use slack to research new stuff and present it to other employees
BARRIERS
- Integration with HW & Mech
- Time needed for product level quality
- Pet Projects
- defined idea important channels
- No motivation, no ideas
- Short term thinking
- Lack of integration between research, development and marketing
- Tsaying in a known solution space / business space
- Fear of change
- Stable teams (for decades)
- FEAR
- Lack of idea management / coimmunication channels
- Management culture of planning and control
- success in business
- too early judgement of ideas
- time pressure
- lack of knowledge about innavation process (teaching)
- idea that innovation doesn’t need structure
SOLUTIONS
- Anonymous channels for submitting ideas and discussing
- Incentives for idea adopters
- slack time (for those who demands it)
- Traiuning in idea generation / structuring
- Think and create together sessions
- Lifecyfcle management: prioties, decisions and consequences
- artificial turnover (people changing projects)
- sticking to ideas that are not yet ready
- company within a company (organization lifecycle)
- lateral promotion - innovative career paths
- multiple careers - sabbatical year
- travel - looking to different cojpmanies, cultures and countries
- personal integrity, trust (buzzwords for people stuff)
- customer and supplier co-research
BARRIERS
- Rules
- Commercial Pressure
- Conservatiskm culture
- Legacy
- ceremony
- conform innovation to standard template - justification
- lack of free time
- filtering / translation
- category barriers
- reward system
- $ 2 E
SOLUTIONS
- Grass roots
- Extroiverted self promotion
- interest group - bulletin board / user group liaison
- covert ops - for momentum
- share - collective ownership
- publish anonymously with encrypted signature
- socialization - company pub
- Company sanctioned
- Gold cards - sanctioned slack
- pain innovator with juystifier
- parton - officer of company
- pre-acceptance anonymity
- separate - innovation / legacy - skunkwors
- cross fertilization
- communication matrix
- futurist role
- conference / workshop/tuition/fee allowance
- periodic vision revisting
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