Fostering a Culture of Innovation

Introduction

What does it take to make an organization truly innovative? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the deliberate processes managers can take to nurture innovation and the importance of being able to translate the language of innovators to the executive office.

From “Harnessing the Secret Structure of Innovation”:

• Innovation, much like marketing and human resources, can be made less reliant on artful intuition by using information in new ways. This requires a change in perspective: Viewing innovation not as the product of luck or extraordinary vision but as the result of a deliberate search process.
• Research finds that in an earlier phase in the development of a company’s approach to innovation, an ...