Innovation to an Organization

Innovative practices

Organizations can promote innovation among their employees by building an open and flat organizational structure where employees are not bounded in bureaucratic and hierarchal levels. Study shows that creativity decreased in employees when they are too many restrictions. The human mind thinks openly when the atmosphere is free. Organizations like Microsoft has used their organizational structure and culture to promote innovation and creativity in their employees. Employees are appreciated and appraised for innovation and creativity and they are not restricted to a connectional thought process. In such an environment, employees have been able to think openly and communicate their ideas openly which has helped the organization reach its current position (Newlands, 2018).

Intrapreneurship competency

Intrapreneurship competency can be built among the workforce through strategizing the innovation-oriented approach. Employees should feel motivated for challenging the status-quo in thinking and break free from conventional methods and processes. They can get this motivation from their work environment. Organizations can build intrapreneurial competency by conducting training and development programs that help the employee to think out of the box and keep them motivated. Furthermore, the organizational environment should be supportive of intrapreneurs. They should feel motivated and inspired. There should be a proper recognition and reward system for innovative employees and especially the intrapreneurs so that they do not feel the need to leave their organization and start implementing their ideas on their own.

Identification of intrapreneurs

It is crucial for companies to find the most brilliant minds of the workforce and then invest in them more to help them reach their full potential. The organization can identify the intrapreneurs by keeping a check on which employee has submitted the most unique ideas and check the performance of its employees through training ad developments. In training, employees are assigned to test tasks where are checked in the simulated environment. The performance can point to the intrapreneurs which can be further groomed for their talent (Somers, 2018).

The climate of innovative support learning and development

Organizations that need constant innovation must build an environment where the employees feel secure enough and motivated enough to innovate. The climate of the firm must be open and encouraging. For making it open, the organizational structure should be flat with less power distance and no bureaucracy; in such an environment innovative minds flourish well. They should also be able to communicate their ideas openly with the concerned people. If the employee wants to share his/ her idea with the top management, he/ she should be able to. For this, the communication channels must be open and clear just like in Microsoft. For making the environment encouraging the organizational culture must be focused on such values where the employee should be appraised and encouraged to innovate and think creatively.

Factors for determining planning effectiveness

When strategies and policies are implemented for creating and innovation supporting environment, the results are measurable through matching the actual results with desired results. When leaders make new strategies, they define measurable outcomes that in case of innovation. For example, 10 new patents will be registered so the end of a time duration of a strategy, these results could be matched with how many patents were registered in actual. The effectiveness of strategies must be checked, and then corrective measures should be introduced accordingly (Corbett, 2018).

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