The Innovative Organisation
Innovation in business comes from having the right people, with the right skill sets and the right corporate culture. Sir Ken Robinson in his 2011 revision of his book ‘Out of Our Minds’ suggests that there are three related stages that lead to innovation. They are imagination (to bring to mind that which is not obvious to our senses), creativity (to take ideas and develop them into something of value) and innovation (to put new ideas into practice). To support and foster innovative behavior it is imperative that employees are encouraged to use their imagination, and to be creative with what they imagine. But our education systems are in many ways responsible for removing imagination and creativity from children as they go through the ‘one size fits all’ system because they were designed to train a workforce for the industrialization of the first world. There are two things I’d like to suggest. First, business leaders have to allow and encoura