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Crafitti Consulting Private Limited
www.crafitti.com
Regd. Office: 401, 1B, Akme Harmony, Bellandur Gate, Sarjapur Road, Bangalore-560037. India. Tel:+91-80-41688077
The Premise of Innovative Organizations
A cursory look at different types of organizations across the world considered to be innovative in theirapproach reveals the following broad classification:The world looks to be moving towards collaboration, learning and self-organization based innovation. Inall the above contexts, grass-roots innovation capability (or the innate
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ability to innovate
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at all levelsof the organization) is proving to be the key to sustainable innovation and growth.
Embedding Innovative Capability in an organization
Each organization has its own history, culture and rhythms of growth and consolidation. It is importanttherefore, to figure the innovation ethos that the organization is most resonant with. For instance, anorganization looking to model itself on Toyota
’
s learning organization model could look to embed LeanThinking across all levels of the organization using the following approach:
Crafitti Consulting Private Limited
www.crafitti.com
Regd. Office: 401, 1B, Akme Harmony, Bellandur Gate, Sarjapur Road, Bangalore-560037. India. Tel:+91-80-41688077
Similarly, an organization looking to emulate an open innovation model could follow P&G
’
s Connect andDevelop method. Again, the spirit of open innovation would need to be embedded at all levels of theorganization.
The Crafitti Consulting Model
We, at Crafitti Consulting, have had the opportunity to work on different models of innovation over thepast decade or so. Our work has ranged from very specific problem solving exercises to organization-wide innovation program management and innovation model rollout. [
Our profile, attached separately,will give you a broad overview of the work that we have been engaged in, in the past.
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We believe that every organization can find its own unique innovation model or methodology
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thismay be one of the above models, a combination of the models or something totally new.
We can,through a structured process, help you understand your organization
’
s context, put things in perspective,identify the right problems to solve, the right parameters to impact and the right levers to push and thereby help arrive at a consensus on the model and roadmap to embed innovation in the organization.
That being said, at the base of all innovation lies the innate ability to learn, question status quo, draw oncreative abilities to solve problems in new ways, think of multiple new alternatives, remain motivated,take informed decisions, understand the impact of complexity and non-linearity and relentlessly pursuecustomer value.
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