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Make innovation part of your business DNA
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There is a way to make innovation a part of your company’s DNA. Here are
the five core elements that you can foster within your own business to create
an ‘innovation friendly’ environment.
Value 1: Leadership
In all the consistently innovative businesses, the leader is blatant and clear in their
commitment to innovation. It should be stated as a priority and backed up by
committing resources and time to driving innovation in the organisation.
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Value 2: Teamwork
Innovative organisations create opportunities for fairly small groups of people to work
together that are multi-skilled and fairly free to determine their direction and process
for solving problems and challenges.
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Value 3: Values
Innovation should be stated as one of the organisation’s values. This sends out a
clear message to employees that innovation is important and a key part of their job,
even if they are not working in research and development.
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Value 4: Stimulation
In order to innovate, people need prompting and a stimulating environment can play
a large role in this. Whether it’s pause areas, brainstorm rooms, overloaded
magazine racks or carefully constructed open plan offices, the innovative business
makes sure that the surroundings are conducive to innovative, creative thinking and
interaction.
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Value 5: Recruitment
Probably the most important ingredient in building an innovative organisation is the
recruitment process. Getting the right people through the door is fundamental to
creating an innovative culture. Some people are naturally more creative, out of the
box thinkers who thrive on new ideas. Work hard to find, attract and secure those
people to ensure that innovation is kept alive.
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