3. Get your employees involved

While managers may have a clear idea of the direction they want their company to take, it's also true that if they adopt a purely top-down approach, they miss out on the many ideas for exploration that employees and the company's various organizations may have.

Innovation can only come from the top. In fact, if a company wants to nurture a culture of innovation, it must encourage the generation of ideas at all levels. However, faced with an abundance of innovative ideas from all corners of the globe, the question arises: how to structure this flow? Of course, not every exploration is possible, so choices have to be made.

Often eclectic ideas make up this very singular stream. Let's face it, the probability of discovering a unicorn in this way seems pretty slim! And yet, this flow is crucial to maintaining or creating a culture of innovation...