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Enable Innovation Through Culture

Focus on culture rather than spend for greater innovation success.

  • Few HR departments enable their organization’s innovation efforts, resulting in a missed opportunity to be a strategic partner and accelerate results.
  • There are different types of innovation, and different cultural drivers are critical for each type of innovation. Understanding the types of innovation an organization is using allows HR to determine where to focus their efforts.

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  • Go through a Guided Implementation to help you get through your project

Our Advice

Critical Insight

  • Enabling innovation is a balancing act. Take the time to understand the types your organization is using to focus HR’s resources where they will have the biggest impact.

Impact and Result

  • Engage stakeholders to understand the organization’s innovation goals and types, and gain buy-in for HR’s involvement.
  • Identify the drivers that need to be improved and maintained to enable the organization’s innovation types.
  • Plan to align HR programs to reinforce prioritized drivers.

Enable Innovation Through Culture Research & Tools

1. Clarify your organization’s innovation goals and type(s)

Engage stakeholders, clarify the organization’s innovation goals, and identify the innovation types HR needs to enable.

2. Identify the innovation drivers HR needs to enable

Understand the drivers of a culture of innovation, assess the organization and HR’s alignment to the drivers, and prioritize drivers to improve and maintain.

3. Align HR programs to innovation drivers

Define behaviors for the prioritized innovation drivers, creating a high-level action plan to align HR programs to them and establish metrics to measure success.


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How to complete this course:

Use these videos, along with the Project Blueprint deck above, to gain an understanding of the subject. Start with the Introduction, then move through each of the Course Modules. At the end of each Module, you will be required to complete a short test to demonstrate your understanding. You will complete this course when you have completed all of the course tests.

  • Number of Course Modules: 4
  • Estimated Completion Time: 1.5 hours

Understand what innovation is and why having an innovative culture is important. Identify the current state of innovation, key innovation drivers, and how HR can embed behaviors that reinforce a culture of innovation within the organization.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

  • Identify the types of innovation that best suit the organization.
  • Clarify innovation goals for the organization and identify innovation drivers.
  • Create a plan to embed behaviors that support innovation and collaboration in the organization.
  • Select solutions to improve innovation and collaboration.

Course Modules

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About McLean & Company

McLean & Company is an HR research and advisory firm providing practical solutions to human resources challenges via executable research, tools, diagnostics, and advisory services that have a clear and measurable impact on your business.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your HR problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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Get the help you need in this 2-phase advisory process. You'll receive 4 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

Guided Implementation 1: Clarify your organization’s innovation goals and type(s)
  • Call 1: Review innovation types, relevant information, and stakeholder consultation plan.
  • Call 2: Identify innovation type(s) HR needs to enable.

Guided Implementation 2: Identify the innovation drivers HR needs to enable.
  • Call 1: Review innovation drivers and required stakeholder consultation plan.
  • Call 2: Assess current state and prioritize innovation drivers HR needs to improve and maintain.

Contributors

  • Patti Brooke, Director, Innovation, Premera Blue Cross
  • Michelle Cogan, Manager, People & Culture, Entuitive
  • Kevin Dunal, Principal, Launch Center Inc.
  • Shashi Jain, Strategic Innovation Manager, Intel Corporation
  • Blaine Jansen, Associate, Entuitive
  • Paulina Klimowicz, Lead Digital Talent Acquisition, Scotiabank
  • Navin Kunde, Department Manager, Open Innovation, The Clorox Company
  • Arif Mustafa, Director CIO Advisory, Enterprise Design, Digital Transformation & Innovation, Info-Tech Research Group
  • Rajesh Sankat, Policy Advisor & Digital Product Lead, The Ontario Cabinet Office
  • Juani Swart, Professor, Head of Group: Organization Studies & Director, University of Bath
  • Brian Zubert, Director, Waterloo Region, Thomson Reuters Labs