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

SELF-ASSESSMENT: BRINGING INNOVATION TO YOUR ORGANIZATION

Given the overarching importance of culture, the embedment practitioner needs to have a candid description of the culture and which aspects will be enabling to innovation embedment. The more you understand your culture, the more successful the embedment plan will be to create the changes required by innovation embedment. One way is to create a simple description of your culture using Worksheet 5.1.

It can be a challenge to describe your organization's culture and to see which aspects affect performance if much of your culture is taken for granted. In fact, it is possible to overlook culture and values as a critical performance factor because culture and values by their nature are taken-for-granted ...