Spark Innovation Within Your Company: Part 1

How to Spark Innovation Within Your Company

Innovation is commonly defined as the combination of new ideas, implementation, and action. Once these three ingredients come together, they often yield a great improvement, profit, or growth in some way. This is something every company strives for, though many don’t know exactly how to go about initiating innovation. Here are a few tips to help you spark your creative side:

• Innovation is not something that happens in a bubble. It happens when everyone works together, collaborates, and delegates to get something done. Encourage your employees to work in groups and teams to come up with better ideas, and help them delegate tasks within by assigning a group leader to oversee the project. Also, make sure your leaders are calling or emailing workers on your plant floors to get ideas from all levels.

• Make sure you invest in software solutions for business, information services, or other print software that allows you to conduct surveys and solicit feedback from your employees in all departments and at all levels of your company.

• The key to ultimate success with innovation is trial and error. If someone comes to you with an idea that sounds partway decent, make sure they pursue it. If it fails, at first, help them correct the errors and try again, instead of scrapping it and moving on. Many good opportunities are lost because people don’t pursue them past the initial failure.

• Make sure you educate your employees by sharing stories that started out as failures and indicating how they became successes. This will help give them tools and experience that they can apply to their own attempts to innovate.

Learn more about How to Be Innovative in Business.

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