| Abstract Scope |
This presentation explores Innovation in today’s business climate to help leaders understand and implement initiatives that uncover creative solutions to complex problems. Common solutions embrace buzzwords like; teams, diversity, multi-cultural, inter-departmental, entrepreneurship, alignment, collaboration, vision, ideas and leadership. Management writings for businesses to innovate describe strategies including; mindset, implementing change, incentives, tolerance for mistakes, culture of innovation, openness to new ideas, understanding customers and the list goes on and on.
In this talk we’ll approach innovation from a different direction; where do businesses find novel solutions to complex problems? Looking at the people in the organization and how to use them to innovate. Considering what skills they need to have, learn or develop. And emphasizing breadth and its intimate connection to successful innovation.
Finally, we will show that innovation does not happen by accident. Businesses must understand that people innovate, and we will highlight key strategies to support innovation. |