LEADING INNOVATION
The leadership of innovation and cooperation is still a puzzle. Current leadership theory encourages leaders to lead by example, set directions and define objectives, evaluate outcome and review results. It is quite clear what this means for efficiency oriented production-processes and value creation within established industries. When it comes to innovation beyond the normal and cooperation across establised boundaries, current leadership practice gets deeply challenged:
- Do you have to be a top-innovator in order to lead your team towards innovation?
- How do you motivate others to innovate and cooperate?
- How can we create “hot spots” for innovation and value creation?
- Can we review innovation results (within reasonable timeframes)?
- Do we really have to define objectives and evaluate outcome in traditional terms in order to be successful value creators?
- What are the key leadership innovations that make collaborative innovation networks possible?
- Can we learn from open innovation practices and processes?
- Can we design innovation-friendly hierarchies?
- What makes a leadership innovator?
- And how can we become innovation leaders?
These are some of the key questions we try to attack in our projects, publications and university-industry partnerships.
Explore the CLIC knowledge base on leadership for innovation, where we provide
- Easy-to-read abstracts, executive briefing notes, up-to-date case studies, and selected presentations and management summaries.
- In-depth explanations of some key concepts in current working papers, reflective journal articles and enlightning books.
- Links to carefully selected homepages in the field.
Experience our current CLIC projects in the field of leadership for innovation, e.g.
- Leading Open Innovation
- Exploring Leadership Systems
- Identifying Leadership Activity Patterns
Engage in creating the future of leadership for innovation! We offer a range of engagement options:
- Are you ready to innovate? Explore and compare your own leadership activity patterns
- Is your organization ready to innovate? Assess your company’s leadership system and your organizations ability to innovate
- How do your leadership policies, practices and processes compare to those of other leading innovators? Join our „Leadership for Innovation“ Industry Group
