A brief overview of critical success factors for innovation to check against.
- The organization: structure of innovation processes to be explicit by treating innovation as a systematic process and continued ongoing process
- Keep innovation separate from daily work routine, remove barriers, give accoutability
- Set ambitious goals and a vision and combine these with small attainable steps
- Focus on results, doing things for clear results, satisfying evaluation criteria
- Learn from the innovation process for courage, acknowledge mistakes, continuous
- Create a climate for creativity- trust, openness
- Foster values that enhance innovation- core ideology, values, diversity
- Break patterns, abandon accepeted truths and historical myths, contrarian thinking
- Motivate personnel- good ideas, risks and achievements rewarded and recognised
- Make people central to it all- the real power of innovation
- Communicate about innovation- positive signals, setting example, commitment, faith.
- Involve the top directly- word and deed, setting the example, protective shield
- Search for and make use of opportunities- systematic inside and outside
- Be customer-orientated- use as a source, the ‘burning platform’
- The use and involvement of multiple stakeholders- open and flowing
- Define the context, the clarity and prespective of the problem faced
- Search to obtain the experience with the subject on hand
- Pursue a range of paths and solutions
- Evaluate problems, trigger ideas and access success
- Commit sufficient resources, time and space.
