Making Innovation Happen

You can look at innovation as a journey: from the spark of a new idea to seeing that idea realized in the form of a new product, service, or work flow.

Innovation is more than a great idea -- innovation succeeds only when you put that idea into action. The innovative manager needs the ability to find and select good ideas, put them into operation, and persuade users to adopt them.

You can look at innovation as a journey: from the spark of a new idea to seeing that idea realized in the form of a new product, service, or work flow. You could get lucky with it once, but if you are going to repeat it, you need to put in place a systematic process to make it happen consistently.

ACTION POINT: Make innovation a systematic process.