Organizational Innovation: Demonstrated Abilities on the Front Lines...

 Who is talking in the front of the room right now?

Is it the boss again or the CxO that is telling others that work in the organization what they should think and what they should be doing?

Or is it one of the members of the organization presenting their validated research, the data collected and the answers from questions to the real customer, the end user or the investor?

Leaders who are asking open ended questions from the audience and from the "Back of the Room" will be getting more clarification.  They may be also curious of the speakers motivations for their research investigations and experiments.

These same leaders who are listening and verifying information recognize that the true innovation is going to come from far outside the building.

"Future innovation and solutions will originate from outside the organization from true professionals in the area of responsibility with those that have real world problem-sets."

These problem-sets from the field, from the organizations and Critical Infrastructure entities in the same neighborhood, city, county or state shall be the true focus.

Radical transparency with data collected from the customer, the user, the inventor, or the researcher is where the hypothesis is created.

Are you still talking about what you want on the “Zoom” for the majority of the time allocated?

How will you ever discover if the hypothesis is correct?  How will you ever be able to adapt, change or refine what the real problem-set is, that requires your expertise and focus?

Innovation in your organization will be scarce while you are still up in front of the meeting talking.

meritocracy

noun

mer· i· toc· ra· cy

: a system, organization, or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power, and influence on the basis of their demonstrated abilities and merit.

What are you still doing inside the building?  Why are you still in front of the room or on the Zoom talking?

The corporations and responsible agency or other entities in your area of responsibility need you to be listening to their problem-sets.

They need you to ask them clarifying questions based upon their presentation of the issues, the possible innovation required to solve the problem.

Get out there!  Onward…