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Management starts to actively encourage employees to take bigger risks in their jobs.

Foster an innovative culture and climate

A restaurant wants its chefs to be more innovative with food so the owner sends them to a week-long class on food pairing and international cuisines.

Appropriate resources

A group of senior executives discusses what they will all need in order to be on board with supporting innovation in their divisions.

Commitment from senior leaders

A company takes the strategic decision to make large investments in research designed to fuel long-term innovation.

Create an innovation strategy

A biomedical research company hires a group of scientists who were trained to examine diseases from a radical new perspective.

Develop the necessary human capital

A tech company wants to encourage innovation, so it changes its performance management system so that new ideas, rather than immediate results, are rewarded.

Human resource policies, practices, and procedures

All components of a home are prefabricated and shipped in the same package for construction on site.

New-direction process innovation

NASA invents flying cars.

New-direction product innovation

A multimedia company shifts to a more organic structure in order to encourage interactions among a variety of employees that it hopes will lead to innovative ideas.

Required structure and processes

Refineries learn to extract more oil in less time.

process innovation

Apple releases an updated version of the Mac book.

product innovation