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Enable Innovation Through Culture

Focus on culture rather than spend for greater innovation success.

  • Few HR departments enable their organization’s innovation efforts, resulting in a missed opportunity to be a strategic partner and accelerate results.
  • There are different types of innovation, and different cultural drivers are critical for each type of innovation. Understanding the types of innovation an organization is using allows HR to determine where to focus their efforts.

Executive Summary

Critical Insight

  • Enabling innovation is a balancing act. Take the time to understand the types your organization is using to focus HR’s resources where they will have the biggest impact.

Impact & Result

  • Engage key players to understand the organization’s innovation goals and types, and gain buy-in for HR’s involvement.
  • Identify the drivers that need to be improved and maintained to enable the organization’s innovation types.
  • Plan to align HR programs to reinforce prioritized drivers.

Research & Tools

1. Clarify your organization’s innovation goals and type(s)

Engage key players, clarify the organization’s innovation goals, and identify the innovation types HR needs to enable.

2. Identify the innovation drivers HR needs to enable

Understand the drivers of a culture of innovation, assess the organization and HR’s alignment to the drivers, and prioritize drivers to improve and maintain.

3. Align HR programs to innovation drivers

Define behaviors for the prioritized innovation drivers, creating a high-level action plan to align HR programs to them and establish metrics to measure success.

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