Lead Innovative Thinking and Practice: Strategies and Analysis Report

This report delves into the multifaceted realm of innovative thinking and its practical application within organizational contexts. It explores various strategies for generating new ideas, emphasizing the crucial role of leadership in fostering a culture conducive to innovation. The report examines the concept of creative thinking, providing examples such as Elon Musk and the evolution of electric cars, and highlights the importance of identifying opportunities for innovation through market research and analysis. It discusses the strategic priority of innovative thinking for profit-making organizations, using the example of Charles Goodyear, and underscores the significance of continuous innovation for business growth and competitive advantage. Furthermore, the report addresses factors that can impede innovation, such as fear of failure and rigid thinking, while also providing insights into building an innovative organizational culture, referencing the example of Apple. The report also covers the training of innovative thinking, common mistakes companies make, and how to think creatively. The report further analyzes a case study on Sim's Hardware, examining its business practices and strategies for innovation. Finally, the report includes a discussion on how to think divergently and creatively.

LEAD INNOVATIVE
THINKING AND
PRACTICE

Table of Contents
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18

TASK 1
1. What are the different strategies that are needed to generate new ideas and thinking?
Leadership-
The leaders of the company needs to motivate their employees if they expect an
innovative and new ideas from them. They need to reward them for their ideas but avoid it if it
involves high level of risk so that it does not affect their culture. Leaders of the company must
work on changing the routines of the employees so that they can remove those factor which are
holding them back for new and innovative ideas. (Secundo and et.al., 2017.)
Practices-
Continuous effort and learning is needed in order to gain the expertise so that the
employees can complete their training and produce innovative ideas for the company. If they are
properly encouraged by the leaders of the company then they will surely be able to find new
ways and methods of completing the work. Some companies measures their performance by the
ideas they have generated and innovated with the help of their team of employees. It does not
matter that company is operating on a large scale or small scale.
2. What do you understand by creative thinking? Do you think it is always necessary to
have a technique of creative thinking to invent something new? Explain with example?
Creative thinking is the ability to create and come up with the ideas which are new and
don't exist into the market. It can be in any form such as concept, method, solution work related
to art or an skill, or coming up with an actual real device. It is based on the things which are not
currently present in the market. It is necessary to have a art or skill in order to come up with an
idea which is creative in nature. If the person does not have a creative mind set or thought
process then there are less chances for inventing a new product. Take Elon Musk for an example
that guy had nothing except potential, education and a mind full of creative ideas. He thought
what is needed in the market and came up with the idea of electric cars. His company was the
first one to manufacture it with the highest range in the market and the cars his company
manufactures comes under luxury segment which also offers the feature of autonomous driving.
3. How do you spot opportunities for innovation? Explain with an example?

Opportunities are spotted with the help of proper research and survey methods into the
market so that they can come up with the ideas which are needed at the utmost level and when
that idea comes it has the potential to reach the success in a very less amount of time as it can
fulfil the needs and wants of people in order to satisfy them. Market research tells an innovator
that what is needed in the market or he or she can invent a thing that can make the work of them
easier and saves time. They can do it by upgrading a product that is already existing in the
market. For instance Elon Musk find the need in the market and that was to upgrade the
technology and make things which runs on sustainable resources so that it does not affect the
environment. The need which was taken out with the help of research or survey method is the
opportunity for an innovator to create new ideas or an actual product that simplifies the work of
the people. (Rong and et.al., 2019,)
4. Is innovative thinking a strategic priority for every profit making organizations? Why
do you think Charles Goodyear could stand despite being on the verge of bankruptcy?
Company who are dealing in the process of manufacturing has to form up with new ideas
on a continuous basis as it is necessary for companies to cope up with the needs of the market
and the environment is rapidly changing. For the companies who are dealing in the industry of
technology it is a must for them to set this as their priority because if they don't think and bring
innovation into the market then they won't be able to survive into the market because customer
want change with every product they purchase. They feel that the money they are spending on
any category of product must be worth their money. Despite being on the edge of the line to fall
off the wagon and get declared as bankrupt Charles Goodyear still made it big in the market
because of his innovation of vulcanized rubber and his will to compete with others.
5. Why is it important for organizations to innovate? How can similar ideas lead to new
innovations?
It is important for the companies to come up with creative and innovative ideas as it
allows them to operate on a larger scale and obtain more share in the market by influencing more
and more customers. Even if the company is operating on a small scale company who is bringing
continuous innovation into the market will eventually gain the goodwill and reputation in the
market also the size and scale of the business will also increase. For instance One Plus came up
with continuous innovation at affordable prices in the beginning and now it is the market leader

in the premium segment of mobile phones. It will also allow the companies to increase the level
of employment and serve more customers in the market. By thinking creatively they can cut
down cut down the time of production as they will work in an more efficient manner by
changing the process of production, increasing the use of machinery so that they can make the
increase the level of productivity with less resources and raw materials and produce better output
with boosting up the performance. It will help the companies to create and come up with an
differentiated approach in order to gain the competitive advantage in the market. (Thurlings,
Evers and Vermeulen, 2015.)
6. What can stop you from being innovative?
If people keep working on the same things over and over and mix it up with another issue
to resolve the problem then they may never be able to come up with a new and innovative way
so they need to stop talking with the same people so that they can think new ideas. People need
to get out of their comfort zone as it stops them from taking out new experiences which stops
them from getting excited and inspired to come up with a new method. People need to stop think
that the idea they have is out of their league they need to stop giving up before even trying to
make an attempt at it. Many people think that they will get stuck in the middle of the process and
won't be able to think on other factors. Sure it will happen but they need to work on it because of
things which are easy their outcome won't make an impact in the market. Some people fear from
failure too much which stops them to even take the initiative or begin with an action which stops
them to grow and evolve their personal abilities. (Hartmann and Halecker, 2015.)
7. How do you build innovative culture in an organization? Do you think iphone was an
outcome of having a good innovative culture in an organization?
Leaders of the company needs to motivate and empower their employees so that they can
create a culture by making the employees feel that they have some amount of autonomy in the
organization. This will help them to think in an independent way which will help the company to
resolve their problems in new ways. Many companies admit the same mistake which they
committed in the past and keep on repeating it again and again. They need to take time before
executing it for a prototype so that the idea can be evaluated. By repeating the same mistake they
will miss the opportunities of changing the culture and for that they need to remain confident.
They need to conduct or attend more and more sessions of brainstorming so that they can
produce new products irrespective of their nature. Apple had innovative culture in their

organization which helped them to get new ideas at an extent level from their team as they were
always motivated and empowered by the leaders of the company which resulted in the growth of
the company at this level.
8. Can innovative thinking be trained? What is the best possible way?
Innovative thinking can be trained and there are common methods which many company uses to
come up with the new ideas. Many companies develop their ideas with the help of training
methods such as success of customers. The case studies are told to the employees of the
innovation which has helped the company to win the customers from the market. It also involves
the sharing of experience of customers with the employees who has newly joined the employees.
It helps the employees to understand the thought process of customers including their feelings,
fears and how they make a difference. Some companies encourage them to take the feedback of
the work they have done so that they can know the impact of it and changes which they need to
take in order to satisfy the customer and make the innovation successful. Some companies use
the approach which is traditional and consists of old methods to train the employees but most of
the times it turns out to be effective because the success of that depends on the nature of the
business. (Håkansson Lindqvist, 2019.)
9. What is the greatest mistake that a company makes at the stage of innovation?
Some of the companies keep on pushing their employees above their level of potential as
they feel that they will give them successful results after that. They feel that more the ideas they
generate more they will be successful but it is the opposite of that they need to focus on the value
of the idea which they avoid. Companies often tell success stories of other companies but what
they forget is that employees need a mechanism to come up with an innovative idea in a right
manner. They discourage them and don't allow them to try out experiments which can be
converted into a successful idea and stopping that disrupts them from achieving success as they
need successful ideas in the first attempt which is not possible. If they encourage and invest in
their experiments then the company may be the one with the most ideas generated by a company.
For instance Wright brothers tried out an experiment because of which everyone can fly and
reach at any place in an convenient manner if they think that this will not take them or lead them
anywhere. Then the aviation would have not been possible. (Earl and Timperley, 2015)

10. How can you think diver gently and creatively?
People need to brainstorm their ideas as one idea helps to generate or form up another
idea which may not be in a structured manner but it surely will be in a creative manner. Every
must freely think and pursue their ideas without thinking that what other people will feel and
cope up with the solution that is practical. Person who has generated the idea must review them
before continuing the list they have made as pursuing them without reviewing the idea will only
lead to a problem as they will not have worth or eligibility in the eyes of the market.
TASK 2
1.
Sim's hardware is considered to be the business which is been considered to be the part of
Australian landscape with past many years. This is consideration of stores which is been named
under Sim's home goods in George St. Sydney. The company tends to be initially been
specialized in the manufacture and sale of furniture which belonged in small households. This
helps the company to have quite quick expansion from one to next four stores across the
destination of Sydney northern and western hurbs. The company tends to have employments of
more than 60 employees which are been considered as the full time one. The company tends to
have the holding of effective brand image because of high quality of services. The company have
consideration over having employee which are highly skills which makes company to have
assurance of better key standards.
2.
On the current basis company is been repositioned as the housing boom in supplying wood along
other hardware items Gavin 138 store all around with more than 1000 employees. The
technological trends have the change which is being identified at quicker pace where utilization
of web and other computerized stages for promoting is expanding ( Martinez-Conesa, Soto-
Acosta and Carayannis, 2017). The company is tending to have failure with lacks in business
technology operations and practices. Company's is trying to be innovation by maintaining the
proper practice in developing various level of business idea. On current basis company is
actually lacking with technology and innovative ideas which can helps the company in order to
have development and gain competitive edge affecting the competitors in the world of
globalization. The company is trending to have the steep decline in last few years due to having

the level of obsession in the technology in manufacturing the product which is masking the
company in having less stratification to customer demand in development of perspective.
3.
The innovator have to develop a wide range of tools and techniques in order to have which will
helps in unleashing people along with nurturing the developed ranges in initiate creativity which
is usually be constrained by companies certain level of rules, procedure and methods. The most
popular and critical tools for respective innovation. There are considered headed under two
group that is divergence tools and convergence tools. The divergence tools have the
consideration of varsity of ideas which will helps the innovator to have establishment of thinking
to various perspective. This includes all about the analogy cards, trends and technology
benchmarking along with three important business considered 'if'. The next is convergence tools
which is been used to have interned purpose having more of mind maps, Thinking hats and a
hundred euro test or idea shopping as the creative process in which there divergence and
convergence tools are been used during different phases of innovation which is important for
overall development of company.
4.
The technological trends have the change which is being identified at quicker pace where
utilization of web and other computerized stages for promoting is expanding and other are been
identified as expanding into the digital platforms. As the company have aim to bring up of
technological advancement in manufacturing and selling products the company should have the
use convergence tools which helps in stepping up the different level of mindset. This helps in
making purpose very clears with focusing on analysis and synthesizes rather than just be an idea
generation ( Martinez-Conesa, Soto-Acosta and Carayannis, 2017). On the other hand the
development of technology can in manufacturing product can lead to have machine in tools to
have performance of specific operations which make machine tools more non portable and
power driven manufacturing the machinery and systems. Sim's have innovation update in order
to have the key in order to attract the customer to purchases the products. The company future
thinking as inspect of product logistic is gaining the major attention in order to develop the future
goal and objective of company.
5.

As being at innovative level technological advancements is making the company more level of
impacts in development of products logistic and further more development of business of
hardware. The innovative idea that can be developed at the individual level but there is need of
an effective team to have the performance and evaluative succession of working technology
which is making the business more level of developed. On the collective level there will
employees assistance programs which is having the consideration in allowing the co-counselling
service which is helping the employee in company in order to have motivation and developed in
more systematic manners.
6.
There is the existence of different leadership style in companies which is being used by leaders at
differentiation such as autocratic, democratic and transformational leadership. In the company to
have the development of innovative ideas, there will be the use of transformational leadership
which will have major impacts in development and major improvisation in developing the idea.
The helps the leaders in encouraging, improving and development of innovative ideas in
employee in order to have creation of changes which will helps in growing and shaping the
future success of company. For example- as to bring the technological advancement company
will tend to have better viewing of ideas and including employee in decision-making of company
regard to development process (De Massis and et.al, 2015). The next is about development of
proper culture in company which will make employees to enjoy, incorporating perks, events, and
benefits in an effort to make each individual feel appreciated by the organization and thus
motivated to work harder.
7.
The transformational leadership have the major consideration of promoting the influences the
major level of innovation which is impacting the business but as been the risk taker there can the
maximum chance of taking the decision which cha have the negative implication in developing
the visionary and mission of company innovation goals and objectives. Due to the plans of
change ion company culture to have implementation of innovative ideas. The employee have to
work for hours to have achievements of task will be turned out as tired and dissatisfied. The
leadership has the risky in making bad plans without any practical implications which might
have the following decisiveness of decision which have been made by leaders in company
innovative development. The method is refining of leadership can be the development of 4 I's

that is idealized influence, Inspirational motivation, individualized consideration and intellectual
simulation.
8.\
With the embarking of the important digital transformation, the company should be aware I the
cognizant risk which is being associated which intelligence automation. The company tends to
have the risk of data breach along with other privacy and other cyber risks are certainly not to be
taken lightly, but there is a broader range of risks related to disruptive technology that need to be
accounted for as companies adopt new innovations (Carayannis, Sindakis and Walter,, 2015).
Taking of the control over the disruptive technological risk is in ways to provide the eduction to
employees with disruptive technology, terminology along with having innovation and relevance
of company. The next can have expansion of network which will foster collaboration throughout
cross functional teams along with having relationships with inside and outside experts. The wider
level of impacts is going beyond the cyber security which have the major impact company
profile at risk. The company tends to have the allocation tools to be developed in accordance to
skill employees.
9.
The appropriate method which will helps in developing the innovative idea in the workplace can
be such as making the proper ways of alignment with the key priorities of the decision maker
which will make proper connection with leadership vision and expected outcome and turn out to
be dioecious innovation practices. The next is to have proper company leadership which is being
considered to be flexible avoiding the theory of roughness (Hacklin, Björkdahl and Wallin,,
2018.). So the new idea must be smooth rom far away. The last is use of imager which make
assurance to employees to have the establishment of better idea all around. There should
understand of precaution as the bigger the idea, the thinner the line between excitement and
anxiety. A little excitement can be a good thing. Iin order to have effective communication there
should be undressing to have clears communication's along with being active listener which
helps in making employee to have proper sharing of views in developing the members. In
processes of sharing ideas there should be avoidance of negative statement and being the4
casual which can be leading to the rough and rush communication.
10.

There is need for development of various approaches for team development and effective
communication in order to have providence of support to technological innovation in company.
There is the need for development of global approach which will give meaning to the brand
values proposition. The company should have the consistency in delivering the communication
along with having the proper encouragement to have delivering of feedback which will empower
leaders and manger to take effective level of communication (Meijer, 2015.). On the other hand
to have team development approaches can be such as proper improvisational of mapping
innovation which will help in better understanding regards to innovative development. The
employee should have the development of intrinsic motivation which will helps in solving issues
as fist step to be effective team development. The next is promoting the psychological safety
along with cresting diversity in workplace which will help in development of effective teams.
11.
The establishment of mechanisms at system and process level are having different methods such
as the embrace the failure which leads to have avoidance of failure along with making proper
direction of resources implementation (Prajogo, 2016). This will helps the hardware company in
order to have proper introduction of automation in machinery which will able to developed high
quality and technological product which helps company in order to regain its customer loyalty
and further level of development in achieving its goals and objectives. There is consideration of
varsity of matrix which is bale to provide the feedback which helps in innovating the tools along
with processes and procedure in developing the respective innovation.
12.
The ways to build innovation of technological advancement in developing the organization as to
have consideration of being integral parts for development. The conventional approach in order
to have developing the enterprise-level business strategies are being tested in the new world of
technology-led change, marketplace disruption, globalization and rapidly shifting customer
needs. There is need to have proper reviewing of important skills which is being implementation
of business strategy which is helping in overall integrity development (Wallace, 2017).
The next in having proper recognizance of entrepreneur as such as identifying the level of ability
and value of talents in order to have reductionist to significant cost which can be leads to attends
to effective innovation.

The last is to have the building the innovative culture which is considered to be incubated but
don't mandate. This will helps in having the corrosive influence on any executive level attempts
at fostering innovation.
13.
The company tends to have the proper monitoring of the process in ways of making the
development of innovation in more effective ways for development of company. There are
effective tools which will used by company in order to have evaluation and monitoring of
process. The company tends to have the major focus on the pulse on infrastructure, code base,
and facilities ( Dunne and et.al, 2016.). There can be proper monitoring through the feedback
loops which is been to the context of considered as the best course of action. There should less
payment of attention on rime in decreasing the time with makes in recovering after the failure in
which monitoring will be used. This creates an interesting conundrum for organizations. The
company's desire to self-sustain through continuous innovation comes in direct conflict with its
goal of providing maximum uptime.
14.
Innovation is not having the consideration over performance review process. The
innovation have to face various level of obstacle who have being implementation in business
culture for effective development of company (Pisano, 2015.). The company tends to have the
facing the issues such as the lack of shared mission and vision of company along with not having
systematic process which is being inherent to be turning out more risky. The next cans be more
of employee who are having Unwillingness to change in the absence of a burning platform and
Unwillingness to acknowledge and learn from past “failures”. There can be inclusion in ways of
criticizing the various elements for the development of company in more way in effective level
of development in making the proper understanding.
TASK 4
1. Briefly compare and contrast the current theories and thinking about innovations
with the theories of innovation and thinking from the past?
Business Model Canvas is a tool which company used to design their model in order to
develop the innovation of ideas and the outcome of it can be tested before. This model helps the
company to look out for the hurdles and their potential which company overcomes with their

performance and remove the gaps which are seen with the help of this model. Currently
companies use lean model of innovation which is used because it requires a very less budget and
take many less resources. This mode helps to manage the company the projects of innovation.
This helps to test the innovations at a very low cost and it involves very less risk. (Doppelt,
2017.)
2. How can the theory and thinking on innovation and creativity contribute to applied
practice?
It helps in the growth of the economy as it increase the quantity of production which helps in
reducing the gap and it helps the company to come up with new ways and methods to get
increased output with less requirement of resources. It helps the company to think with the
approach which helps the company to implement sustainable resources. It helps the company to
increase their capabilities and change the model of business so that they can gain competitive
advantage over others in the market and get ahead of their competitors. It will help the company
to cope up with the requirements that are changing in the market and produce things that are
relevant according to their needs. (Brown, 2015.)
3. What impact that the style of leadership have on innovation in the organizations?
Include in your answer how the approach will be specific and encourage it by
inhibiting the innovation?
Leadership is one of the most important components of management in any business unit. An
organization with good leadership tends to have a better chance to survive in today's’ competitive
environment. directive and participative leadership, interactive leadership, charismatic
leadership, transformational leadership, transactional & instrumental leadership, strategic & CEO
leadership, and shared & distributed leadership. We find strong indications that different
innovation stages and types raise different demands on leadership. Against this background,
transformational leadership is not the only style to lead innovations, but different leadership
styles fit differently well with different innovation types and stages. These are the approaches
that are used in encouraging the innovation level in the company. (Bradbeer and et.al., 2017.)
4. Why is organisation and industry relevant to the innovation?

Firms need the aspect and advancement of technology in order to gain technology and
develop it. It has helped them to take new heights where they thought they would not be able to
reach. They increase the revenues of the company and take their profits to an extent as they help
to satisfy the changes in the market and cope up with the changes that are happening in the
market. On the other hand, the companies performing low on innovation were structured and
organized with a low will to excel, were too small and fragmented, too inward looking,
inflexible, under equipped and had less challenging performance targets. (Barak, Watted and
Haick, 2019. )
5.
The factor that are effects on the organizational innovation have the consideration in both
external and internal factors. The internal factors such as the company leadership along with
there respective mission have the impacts of organizational innovation (Love and Roper, 2015).
The company tends to have the different ways of communication's which is making the
innovation in better or worst ways of succession to the process of development. Organizational
innovation tends to have better understandability in structure along with layering which is
impacting the development. On other hand the externals factor such as the political and
economic environment is impacting various decision-making in company. The company have
tendency to have customer-driven idea machine that believes the customer is always right.
Determining what is right for each of its millions of customers and creating and maintaining a
fast-growing organization that responds effectively to what each customer wants and desire.
6.
Challenges associated with innovation is been considered as the important aspects for
development which tends to have failure in the identifying the accurate innovation strategy
which will help in proper development. With next to the company employee are no having any
tendency to motivate or have lack of empowers. With next to that company also have major
consideration in making the proper level of collaboration and missed customer connection which
used to create backwardness in development of company (Kim and Yoon, 2015.). Strategies to
mitigate risk is considered as important aspects that should be kept in mind of manager is done
by having proper level of recognizance of existing model which is needed to be developed in

order to have judged of risk and return. In next to that have accurate determination of limitation
of innovation process along with Obtaining intimate knowledge and understanding of the user.
7.
Innovation drivers in organization is having the consideration of the important parts for
development of the company in more level of effectiveness which is having the leading
development in company to have innovation progress. The driver of innovation are such as the
organizational culture, economic or competitive market condition, geopolitical culture which is
chasing the process of consideration of physical environmental b along with psychological
development. The individual level along with developed of teams has been considered as the
impartation aspect of innovate driver in the company. The company tends to have proper level
of focussing on the strengthening the primary building block to start moving the needle on
innovation (.Jaiswal and Dhar, 2015). The development of competitive firm along with decrease
in market share tends to have masking the process eel of development which makes the business
more level of effective.
8.
Innovation enablers in an organization
The innovation enablers ins having the definition of the reviewing of factors which are been
compromised to have facilitation of innovative work which tends to have the developed and
conductances of innovation which is been in considered within the organization. The major
corporate enabler of the innovation are to be considered as the one which is seeking major level
of development of company in order to gains the competitive lave of avenges. The proper
alignment of the business strategies along with tracking the right matrix in been identified as the
major element for the development of innovation enable which makes the company more level of
productiveness (Schoemaker, Heaton and Teece, 2018). The company should also have the
tendency in having the proper masuri9eng the empowered class of cross functional teams
development which helps in maintaining the health relational with the main business by
establishing an informal innovation board--made of senior executives of your organization.
These advisors will provide strategic direction for the evolution of the innovation portfolio.
9.

Mechanism can be implemented at system and process level.
Operating mechanism is been considered as the one which have the oppressor in working for the
proper captivation of opening and realizing the movable hook components (Donate and de Pablo,
2015). This has inclusion od operating handling along with linkage of varsity system which is
tends to have development of sanguinary in more way of effectiveness. Organizational
mechanism is tended to have control over the different pace in direction along with tasking the
step of effective innovation. The logistical assembly of the voracious elements along with
various components and parts which have the development of associated energy with proper
flow of information. This helps in enabling the machine with process along with system which is
intended to have achievements as per expected results.
10.
Challenges and barriers inside organization
The company tends to have the failure due to the various barriers that is tended by company in
application of innovative development of company in effective ways for development. The
challenges and the barrier which is discoverer by the company is the employee resistance to
changes along with having the ignorance of elephants into room (Zacher and Rosing, 2015.). The
company also tends to have facing barriers such as lack of proper leadership training along with
absence of motivation in employees. Transition culture and presence of negativism in company
tends o make fear in failure with impatient in being to be properly discussed in making the
devotion more level of effectiveness in development of company. The existence of different
mindset of employee and internal level of competitiveness with having continuous fear to lose
control will lead to have challenged to company innovation development.
11.
Benefits of introduction of changes
In the global marketer, there is increase level of competitive market which have the tending that
industry and products are both maturing. The innovative workplace have the stimulation of
employees which leads to have cultivation in order to haver reduction in workplace along with
having the bossiness in productivity development of company (Adams and et.al., 2016.). That
can, in turn, lead to still more innovation success because employees are often a company's best

source of ideas. The4 benefit of the innovative changes in to ave the improved level of quality
and reduction in cost with better ranges of product. The company will be able to take the
innovative changes In order to have handling of legal and environmental issues. This also helps
in having proper improvisation in having provability of the suitability in managing the
innovation culture.
12.
In order to analyse a particular issue organisations can conduct both primary and
secondary research. For primary research organisations can conduct surveys or interviews with
their customers or employees so that actual insight of the issue can be gather. For more
supporting evidences it can also use feedbacks, performance reports, organisational statistics to
analyse the various perspective of the issue (Tidd and Bessant, 2018). The resources from
internet, books or research work as well as organisational records of competitive organisations
can also be used by the organisation to evaluate valuable research findings related to particular
issue.
13.
There are several types of leadership styles which are as follows:
Autocratic leadership: In this type of style leaders rely on coercion and thus it is characterised
by command, compliance and arbitrariness. Leaders take decision without consulting or
involving team members. Thus followers are expected to only follow the instruction of the
leaders without giving any opinion on it. It is beneficial as it ensure that tasks are completed on
time, however it may result in lack of innovation or creativity.
Democratic: This leadership style utilises legitimate power and thus team members have equal
contribution in decision making process. This type of leaders respect the participation and
opinion of team members as well and thus it enhances the creativity and morale of employees
within organisation. Though it can slow down the decision making process but it gives
productive outcomes.
Laisse Faire leadership: With this leadership style, leaders gives maximum freedom to their
followers. With this style leaders provide great development opportunities to develop themselves
as they get equal chance to function independently (Bain and Kleinknecht, 2016). However with

this style leader need to be highly controllable so that organisational objectives are not
compromised in the process of individual development within teams.
14.
Effective leaders are very confident, honest and have good clarity about their goals and
vision. They used to inspire other team members so that they can follow leaders and can achieve
the goals. Leaders must be innovative and they must challenge the assumptions so that
productivity can be increased. For accomplishing the tasks leaders must also have good relations
and communication with the team members. Leaders have to face various complex situations and
thus they must be able to accept and use conflicts as per the situational requirements. Since
leaders have responsibility of entire team it is expected that effective leaders must have good
decisiveness skills.
15.
The most fundamental requirement which demands for the sustainable innovation is to
enhance the profitability and cost efficiency. The sustainable innovation practices help
organisation to achieve their profitable goals with optimum use of resources. Thus if organisation
will adopt sustainable practices it will results in proper utilisation of the resources and cost
benefits. In addition to this most of the competitive organisations are shifting towards the
concept of sustainability (Adams and et.al., 2016). Thus in order to gain competitive advantage it
is mandatory for the organisation to explore the sustainable choices for innovation so that it can
enhance its brand value among its customers.

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