Rewarding the innovators
Have you given your people a reason to innovate for you, or are you expecting them to do so "because it's their job"?
A few years back I was attending the yearly strategy workshop of my employer at the time, along with all my other colleagues. We were divided into groups of six to nine people and tasked with, among other things, coming up with an approach to enable innovation within the company. One of the people in the group I was in, relayed his story of why he left his previous employer, the local telecom giant, over the same thing. He told us how this company asked all their employees to propose projects,…
