Enable Innovation Through Culture
Focus on culture rather than spend for greater innovation success.
RETIRED CONTENT
Please note that the content on this page is retired. This content is not maintained and may contain information or links that are out of date.Without considering culture organizations often: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.
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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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