A culture of innovation is one that embraces change, challenges the status quo, encourages experimentation and champions diversity and inclusion.

In our work with many of the world’s largest brands and top innovators we have successfully supported firms in developing more open, innovative cultures. There is no quick fix, it takes time, investment and patience, it needs strategic direction, clear and consistent management and the right tools for the job. Get it right and it can transform your organisation.

How Open Innovation & Idea Management can enable a Culture of Innovation:

• Embed a high-performing culture of innovation by embracing an everyday innovation mindset
• Empower Change: You need the right tools for the job. A fit-for-purpose, global solution for collaborative, bottom-up, top-down and middle-out innovation that empowers stakeholders, drives change and drives successful innovation outcomes at scale.
• Communicate your innovation goals and align them to your organization’s strategy and purpose. This allows your people to clearly understand why innovation matters, and how they can support the organization’s objectives.
• Open up your innovation process to access the best talent from anywhere in the world and from any discipline. Augment your internal capabilities with external experts and come up with fresh insights and perspectives and the best possible solutions.
• Unleash the innate creativity present in all of us. You will be amazed at the power of the crowd. Invest in developing your innovation training to develop problem identification, problem solving and storytelling skills across your organization
• Structure, process and governance: innovation needs boundaries and structure. Without this the signal to noise ratio becomes distorted and the process falls over. Innovation at scale within an effective culture of innovation is bounded by clear structures, processes and a clear top-down governance approach from shareholders and board down.