How Can You Harmonize Innovation Initiatives? - InnoLead

Harmonizing innovation initiatives in large corporations proves challenging when various teams are already in place promoting different approaches like Lean Startup, Design Thinking, or Crowdsourcing. Rather than focusing solely on methods, it is crucial to understand desired outcomes and develop an inventory of existing methods capable of delivering them. Companies must consider their culture and organization before seeking uniformity in innovation approaches, as this may not make sense in all cases. Special care is needed when functional operating models and elements of culture are not aligned. Innovative approaches should be used to build innovation, but only if practitioners are involved in the collaborative process of finding the best innovation model for the company. Ultimately, innovation companies need to create a coherent end-to-end capability rather than an assortment of disconnected tools.