CAROL FRANCZEK
Carol Franczek is the founder of The Innovation Practice, a consultancy that provides innovation assessment, benchmarking and training services.
You need to analyze your organization and culture to assess its innovation capacity with the same intensity as you do the rest of your business, warns Carol Franczek. Otherwise, you may find your firm suffering from the symptoms of "root rot."
Constructive criticism from managers can take the wind out of employees ideas and can undermine your organization's innovation efforts, warns Carol Franczek. Here is a four-step process that supports more productive conversations, and creates space to both support ideas and raise issues that need to be addressed about them.
The discussion about whether or not to do innovation is over. There have been numerous studies that demonstrate that innovation is central to higher margins, higher customer loyalty and long term viability. What leaders now struggle with is how do I do it and how do I measure it?
