How effective is your innovation system?

• How many leaders in your organization are delighted by the innovations they see coming from
• their teams?
• How many customers compliment you on the innovative products and services they receive from your organization?
• How many employees are inspired by the creative work they are doing, and their personal development as a result of your innovation system?
• How many people talk about your organization as having a culture of innovation?

Organization’s often fail to achieve real results from their innovation systems even though they have:

• Set up an Innovation department.
• Developed IT systems for logging innovative ideas.
• Identified and trained up innovation champions.
• Set up processes for assessing ideas.
• Set up an incentive scheme to recognise the most innovative ideas.

Many leaders complain that:

• The same few people who always contribute to projects, come up with innovations. But it is difficult to get most of the people in the organization to participate.
• When employees do contribute, they pass untested ideas up the chain of command and wait for others to implement their ideas.

The biggest challenge in building a culture of innovation in an organization is that people have been conditioned to follow instructions rather than to improve, create and achieve.

To produce an innovation or improvement that adds value to an organization and its customers, people need to combine the beliefs, skills and practices associated with creativity, problem solving, and project management into a magical potion of imagination and achievement.

As a leader who wants to build a culture of innovation in your organization, you will need to:

• Inspire your teams, so that they WANT to innovate.
• Help your team to build confidence in themselves and their ability to innovate.
• Help your teams to understand that creativity does not just ‘happen’. It is part of a journey of hard work, discovery, resilience, and rewards. A hero’s journey.
• Provide your teams with the beliefs, thinking tools, and a step by step process that will help them to turn problems and frustrations into innovations that will delight your customers, and add value to your organization.

Based on a highly successful innovation cultural change program, this book provides the structure and tools your teams need to innovate.

Give this book to every employee, team leader and manager in your organization as a gift of development. Then enjoy the creative energy that gets unleashed in your organization.