Enable Innovation Through Culture
Focus on culture rather than spend for greater innovation success.
Onsite Workshop
Without considering culture organizations often:
- Overspend on R&D without impacting organizational performance.
- Experience lower rates of delivery on significant innovation.
- Discover misalignment between the employees’ and organization’s expectation of innovative behaviors.
Innovative organizational cultures thrive by:
- Enabling differentiation from competitors.
- Attracting and retaining customers and talent.
- Increasing employee engagement.
Module 1: Clarify Your Organization’s Innovation Goals and Type(s)
The Purpose
- Clarify the organization’s innovation goals.
- Identify the innovation type(s).
Key Benefits Achieved
- Organizational goals for innovation understood.
- Innovation type(s) identified.
Activities: | Outputs: | |
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1.1 | Identify why innovation is a priority. |
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1.2 | Review the innovation inventory. |
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1.3 | Assess specificity of innovation goals. |
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1.4 | Assess organizational resources required. |
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1.5 | Confirm the innovation type(s). |
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Module 2: Identify the Innovation Drivers HR Needs to Enable
The Purpose
- Recognize the drivers of a culture of innovation.
- Assess the organization and HR’s alignment to the drivers.
- Prioritize drivers and define related behaviors.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Alignment to innovation drivers assessed.
- Drivers prioritized and related behaviors defined.
Activities: | Outputs: | |
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2.1 | Assess current state to identify the right innovation drivers. |
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2.2 | Review assessment results. |
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2.3 | Prioritize innovation drivers for HR to improve and maintain. |
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2.4 | Articulate behaviors for priority innovation drivers. |
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Module 3: Align HR Programs to Innovation Drivers
The Purpose
- Create a high-level action plan to align HR programs to prioritized drivers.
- Establish metrics to measure success.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Alignment action plan developed.
- Success measures set.
Activities: | Outputs: | |
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3.1 | Assess HR program effectiveness at enabling drivers (by HR function). |
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3.2 | Brainstorm tactics to enable prioritized drivers (by HR function). |
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3.3 | Create a high-level action plan for each HR function. |
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3.4 | Set metrics to track progress. |
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