Culture of innovation for innovating firms

The 6 competencies expression resulted from the surveys of A.D. LITTLE among a large worldwide panel of the most innovative companies from all business areas.

Create an innovation culture in your company

You have decided to put innovation at the heart of all your company operations
Because you realize that innovation, in an innovative company:

-	Simply the result of a state of mind that needs to be maintained.
-	Is based on new skills to identify and acquire.
-	Has to be implemented in all your company's business areas..

To create an innovation culture implies the establishment of a new dynamics in the company that is based on:

Shared awareness by all employees

-	The fact that innovation is everybody's concern;
-	The fact that there is nothing to fear from changes, as changes are
	innovation's « catalysts ».

Employee's involvement to:

-	Identify existing barriers for innovation.
-	Understand required competencies and the know-how to develop them.
-	Propose priorities for improvement.

« More than 6000 Norwegian managers and executives have worked on "Innovation at Heart" in the frame of "Innovatown" seminars organized by INNOVATION NORGE in 2005 »

Look at our other references

	« Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. It is an act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth » « Peter F. Drucker »

½ day program, with groups of 8 to 40 participants

Action Mat « Innovation at Heart »

Objectives:

-	To discover innovation catalysts and potentials for the company
-	To identify priority innovation areas

75 minutes working and exchanging on the Action Mat followed by 30-45 minutes of sharing

Action Mat « Innovation, the competencies »

Objectives:

-	To understand the six innovation competencies of the most innovative companies
-	To propose improvement direction priorities

45 minutes working and exchanging on the Action Mat followed by 30-45 minutes of sharing

The « Memory Book »

Allows each participant of a team to:

-	Diagnose its own team capacity to generate innovation
-	Define his own contribution reinforcing the company's innovation culture