Question: In Week 1 we've discussed definitions of innovation and we recognized the necessary relationship between strategy and innovation if an organization is to be innovative. Let's do a little creative thinking ourselves about what an innovative organization might look like.
Provide your responses to two of the questions below:
1. What might the organization culture look like? Why do you think this would help to make an organization innovative?
2. What kind of leader would the organization have? Why do you think this would help to make an organization innovative?
3. How might the company be organized? Would there be pockets of innovation within the larger organization? Why do you think this would help to make an organization innovative?
4. What might be a process that would lead from idea to innovation? Why do you think this would help to make an organization innovative?
5. The lecture mentioned acceptance of failure. How and why would a company accept failure? Why do you think this would help to make an organization innovative?