Encouraging management practices that foster innovation

Some companies are more innovative than others, whatever the context or sector: identifying the management practices that foster innovation and the chances of success becomes a major challenge for development.

Five levels of action are possible to increase a company's capacity to innovate; it is essential to understand them well. We can speak of five processes to be mastered and advanced:

• the overall process (management level) ;

• Innovative project (project manager level) ;

• the innovative object (designer level) ;

• the cognitive process (thinking differently) ;

• relations with the ecosystem (management level and Purchasing department).

In the following, all the elements are provided to identify and describe the five processes of your company, with emphasis on :

• the players involved (who does – must do) what?

• the results to be obtained for each level ;

• resources to be allocated ;

• the main tasks to be undertaken ;

• how to evaluate the process.