The word innovation, which is derived from the Latin word 'innovatus' and described as 'innovation' in the dictionary of the Turkish Language Association, is the discovery or development of ideas, products or services in a broader sense. This enables companies to adapt to changes in the world more quickly and effectively. Innovation can also increase the organization’s competitive advantage and help the organization to grow by increasing customer satisfaction. Innovation culture is a business culture that allows a organization to come up with and develop innovative ideas. Change management and cultural transformation projects should be utilized to embed sub-behaviors and practices shaped by values such as innovation, openness to innovation, and creativity within the organization culture, processes, structure and technology.
As RNA Change Management, we would like to share some of the things that need to be done to create innovative companies.
1-Creating an innovation culture:
Organizations should create an innovation culture to encourage their employees to innovate and create innovative ideas. Only in this way is it possible to encourage creative thinking within the organization,by providing a flexible working environment and allowing for mistakes. Organizations should create a flexible and tolerant work environment, allowing employees to test their ideas and learn from their mistakes. In particular, it is essential for leaders to support this issue and to be tolerant of mistakes, and even encourage employees to try different practices and new ways of doing business. At this point, leaders can use methods such as reward and recognition to reward and encourage innovative ideas and practices.
2-Strengthening relations and communication within the organization:
Organizations can increase innovation by encouraging cooperation between different departments and employees. This can bring together ideas from different perspectives and find innovative solutions. In his TED talk titled ‘Where good ideas come from’, Steven Johnson best describes the connection, taking us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow premonition to today's high-speed network.
3- Allocating resources for innovation:
It is important for the company to invest in innovation and allocate time, money and human resources. In the big picture, innovation can be increased by investing in innovation, allocating resources to research and development, or establishing a department or a team that promotes innovation. However, just giving the employee extra time to try out new applications or methods, giving the employee space in areas that will not cost the company and where he can do trial and error can be considered as allocating resources.
In each of the steps we have mentioned, organizations have to manage the change processes and adapt the organizational culture to this change. As RNA Change Management, we believe that the first step to be taken is to evaluate and measure the company culture. With the Barrett Cultural Valuation Test, you can see the suitability of your organization’s current culture for innovative and flexible work. It will be much easier to decide what kind of cultural transformation and change management project should be drawn in order to reach your target organization environment.
You can contact us to get information about cultural transformation and creating an innovative culture and to work with RNA Change Management.