Getting Ideas Adopted

Опубликовано 7 сентября 2016, 18:07

Everyone is interested in getting their ideas adopted. But businesses report that only four percent of innovation initiatives succeed in meeting their financial objectives. Can we significantly increase our odds of succeeding at innovation? We argue an emphatic yes. Innovation is not simply an invention, a policy or a process to be managed; innovation is a personal skill that can be learned, developed through practice and extended into organizations. We define innovation as the art of getting people to adopt change. We draw a distinction between invention and innovation: many inventions never become innovations, and many innovations do not involve an invention. We identify and describe eight personal practices that all successful innovators perform: sensing, envisioning, offering, adopting, sustaining, executing, leading and embodying. Together, these practices can boost a fledgling innovator to success. Weakness in any of these practices blocks innovation.