Enhancing collaboration and employee engagement

Good Read: http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy/2012/04/25/the-8-essentials-of-innovation/

Some highlights if you don’t get a chance to read it:

·         Lesson 3: The best innovators develop innovation programs with a market entry model attached. They see innovation as integral to their changing understanding of the market and they seek out support that helps them manage back and fore along the continuum.

·        #5. Enhancing collaboration and employee engagement: Companies like Bombardier report significant increases in employee engagement through the use of innovation – as distinct from the use of collaboration strategies. Innovation is inherently an engagement practice, though you have to be smart about managing that engagement, giving employees feedback and letting them know where their contributions are headed.

·         Lesson 7: You need a strategic options approach to innovation, otherwise the market will overtake you.