Strategic Innovation: Embedding Innovation as a Core Competency in Your Organization

WHAT WE LEARNED

• Senior leaders must share enterprise-wide accountability for embedment as well as be individually accountable for embedment in their own functional or regional areas.
• You need to be almost too explicit in laying out accountabilities for leaders at all levels around embedment.
• Senior leaders need accountabilities laid out and access to development experience just as much as mid- and lower-level leaders do.
• You cannot assume that mid- and lower-level leaders will have less readiness to learn about and act on embedment than more senior leaders.
• You need to explicitly describe culture-changing behaviors for all levels of leaders.
• You need a robust innovation development process for all leaders that includes training events and workshops, ...