How is a highly innovative company accomplished?

Today, innovation is more than just a person's job. In a highly innovative company, in the enterprise owner, can complete top-down standardized innovation implementation.

If you have a detailed understanding of the company's operations, you will know that innovation usually has the following three sources:

One is from the founder or business owner, if the company is a small business;

The second is from the informal small team and the company's more similar participation, as well as those who are busy but still struggling to solve the enterprise problems of front-line staff;

Third, it comes from the formal project team that is specially convened to solve a particular problem or dilemma.

In fact, we can see that only by constantly strengthening these three sources of innovation can companies maintain high levels of innovation, such as Apple, Disney, Nike, and Valve.

But interestingly, in most cases, that is not the case.

Those highly innovative enterprises are often not through a step-by-step, a little bit to improve their innovative ability, but through the whole organization to instill a pervasive innovative corporate culture, and Top-down in the entire enterprise to promote the implementation of standardized innovation.

Any company can make a similar change. Employees can be in the leisure, eating, sleeping, and even breathing, will be everywhere innovation into the day-to-day production activities of enterprises. This article will put forward three key points that may help to become a highly innovative company:

1. Build Cross-functional team.

In some enterprises that occasionally innovate, most innovative opportunities, methods, problems, or challenges are delegated to one employee by default. In other words, an employee with an innovative challenge or opportunity is actually a company that wants to solve the problem. Usually, the person will either solve the problem by his or her own efforts, or find some colleagues from within his or her own team to help solve the problem.

In enterprises with continuous innovation, they will choose to deliver to a cross-functional team when they encounter some important opportunities, methods, problems or challenges, because the Cross-functional team can bring a broader range of problem-solving perspectives.

2, in the enterprise-wide analysis of the ex post facto.

Few companies will analyze their past performance in meaningful ways, and if they do, companies will avoid serious mistakes in the future.

An enterprise that mimics continuous innovation: take time to learn the lessons and experiences of project execution when any entity project or independent innovation is over. Just as good sports coaches have taught players, you are successful because you have discovered the cause of failure and learned a lot from it.

In the same way, an enterprise should control the post analysis work internally, and it is worth noting that some employees who have nothing to do with the project should perform an ex post analysis because they usually provide some of the most objective feedback information.

3, combined with 360-degree performance evaluation.

The author found that in a truly innovative enterprise internal work, one of the most attractive thing is to be in harmony between the employees, they are very honest, unbiased, each other is the 0 feedback------They are already very adept at each other.

For some ordinary companies, feedback is like a rare animal, and even with some feedback, there is a lot of suspicion and even some ulterior motives. Build a strong and dynamic feedback "muscle" in the enterprise, that is to have a strong competitive advantage, but also need a lower cost or technical breakthrough to support, and, indeed, enterprises need to put into action.

If an enterprise is managed by a skilled and sensitive service provider, the first round of evaluation is usually tricky and may not produce more useful information when it is first used for a 360 degree assessment. But if you insist on using this assessment method, the enterprise will find that the effect will be better and more convenient to use. Also, employees will feel more relaxed, and they will understand that the information they provide is not being used against them, but rather to help improve and optimize business operations.

The performance appraisal of additional enterprises is not only a one-to-one apple, but also a related assessment based on team and team. You can also invite your direct subordinates to participate in the development of enterprise performance appraisal model. And, finally, ensure that performance appraisal is built around the success of the enterprise, and the completion of some achievements.

Implementing these three methods may not make your business a big company like Nike or Villefort, but it will help your business achieve the most important innovation, or help your business achieve a transformation that has never been experienced before.