Management and Strategy

I read this great article on Innovation. Diann Daniel summarizes 7 ways to kill innovation. Following is the summary. You can read the original article here.

1. Believe that innovations will “Just Happen”. You need to champion innovation in your organization it will not just happen.
2. Not having a process to nurture ideas in the organization. Just brain storming is of no use.
3. Lay the success of innovation solely on IT’s shoulders.
4. Create an obstacle course for ideas. The process of managing innovation should be transparent and inclusive.
5. View different and new as bad.
6. Hand over the good ideas to any one department and not have higher level management involvement.
7. Be afraid of failures.