Lead Innovative Thinking and Practice in Organizations

Lead Innovative thinking and Practice

Activity 1- context, tools and strategy
1) There are many ways to help the employees of the organization to generate ideas like
SCRAMMER, Brainstorming, Mind mapping, Visualization and visual prompts, story
boarding, attribute listing, forced relationship, morphological analysis, reverse
thinking, day dreaming, forced relationship etc. In our case the most suitable
procedures will brainstorming, the employees will bring creativity and innovation in
their thinking and mind mapping tools will also be used in the given case. The process
of brainstorming fits appropriately to the model of the company’s policy where the all
employees are allowed to put their view forward. Visual Eg: The process of
brainstorming in done to innovate the sales procedure like planning the session,
communicating with the retailer and distributors about the problems they are facing,
gathering detailed information about how the product is performing in the market and
ideas and views are put forward. (Dunne, 2018)
2) The brainstorming technique is used to nurture the brain of the employees to bring
innovation in their work, the brain storming activities show some trends which are
signs of shaping up organization’s current and future thinking practices. They are
 Rethinking work- Now-a-days, all the companies are involved in diversified
projects not will all its employees to get out of the boundaries of his desk and
explore the world to built ideas and bring innovation.
 Collaboration- The influential leaders must induce the concept of
collaboration of the company with its employees. It will create a win-win
situation
 Flexibility- It was found in a research that 78% people are unable to maintain
work life and family life balance. They fail to make meet deadlines at work
and also commitments made to family members. Making flexible shifts will
help the employees to keep a balance in their life.
 Employee experience- In the era of digitalization, the employees have the
power to give review about the work culture of their organization based of job
satisfaction, salaries, openness of managers. So employee’s experience is one

of the most important thing that organization should concentrate on. (Gallo,
2018)
3) The way of bringing innovations to the products of the organization is well structured.
3M believes in sharing ideas, utilize 15 percent of the time to bring up innovative
ideas. The brain of the employees is nurtured in different ways to bring out innovative
results. And they are inspired to work in team. This is the most important thing which
an employee requires to bring growth in the organization. The technology is shared
all across the company. The patent of the new product and technology belongs to the
company only (Yang, 2018).
4) Specific condition for innovation: Open Innovation and innovation ecosystem, here
the innovation is driven by interacting with others and creating network.
Issues that impact on individual and collective innovative thinking and creativity in
regard to producing a new product : Work Environment
Innovation drivers and enablers: Innovation Cubes, which uses three pairs of
attributes, they are ‘Plain pleasure attribute’, ‘Price shift’, ‘Market shifts-Technology
discontinuity’. The Plain Pleasure attribute mainly points the reasons that why would
people ask for innovation, Market shift-technology attribute which says that whenever
a new technology is developed, a new opportunity of innovation is created. The third
attribute says that the innovation should affordable so that it is accepted by all (Gallo,
2018).
Activity 2: Lead Innovative Practices:
There are twelve different leadership styles, they are i) Autocratic (the leader holds all the
power and responsibility), ii) Democratic (all the team members are involved in decision
making process), iii) Strategic (This process refers to the potential of the manager to handle
all the situations strategically), iv) Transformational leadership (the leaders are open to
changes and brings changes in the working process, organization and motive his team mates
for betterment of their work), v) team-leader ship (the leader instructs, guides, and give a
proper direction to the team), vi) cross cultural (the leaders understand how people of
different culture interact with each other and then they pave the way that how will leaders