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Session 3: Innovation and Organisations - Coggle Diagram
Session 3: Innovation and Organisations
Types of Innovation
New Ideas
New Devices
New Methods
Act of Introducing New Ideas, Methods and Devices.
Introduction of Creative and Disruptive Ideas
Why is innovation important for organisations?
Maintains or redefines competitive advantage
Need for novelty or creating a niche market where the company can compete.
Progress for society and individuals within that society.
Recognising the importance for constant improvement within society.
Best Ways to Promote Innovation
Encouraging study of what other organisations are doing and where you can take what they have done to another level.
Request input from stakeholders, proactively or reactively.
Consider motivational goals to mobilise employees to consider incremental and revolutionary innovation.
Embed innovation as a core value of the organisation.
How can invention help foster broader innovations?
Reveals new ways of doing things.
Inventions can be products which require new forms of marketing and production, both forms of new innovations.
Inventions can change consumer expectations, forcing broader changes in what the organisation offers.
Inventions can act as points of inspiration for other designers.
Organisational Structure
Structures that are matrix style, and have project teams are best for culturing innovation.
Allows for diversity of ideas and applications but also people work closely together.
Structures that are hierarchical, top down are the worst for culturing innovation.
Functions operate individually and understand innovation differently. Contrasting strategies prevent innovation from taking place.
Organisational Culture and Innovation
Including and communicating innovation as a norm is best practice. Putting procedures in place to support.
Takes time to cultivate a sense of trust that will reduce risks and potential failure and resistance to change.
Process for maintaining an effective organisational culture.
concept generation
concept screening
preliminary design
evaluation and improvement
prototyping and final design
launch and operation
end of life stage.