8 Steps to Encourage Innovation in the Workplace
There are innumerable benefits of encouraging innovation in business. It enhances efficiency in operations, helps attracting new customers and identifying new business opportunities, improves customer satisfaction and loyalty, and the list goes on. With new technologies and inventions emerging every now and then all around us, every organization needs to nurture innovative thinking to maintain its competitive edge, grow, and prosper. In fact, many organizations these days hire chief innovation officers and/or embrace new technologies for implementing the innovation process. However, cultivating or encouraging innovative thinking in the workplace isn’t an overnight or easy process. A survey conducted by Robert Half had revealed that 35 percent of chief financial officers are of the opinion that the greatest roadblock to organizational breakthroughs is the lack of innovative ideas. Of course, it’s challenging to set up a culture where your employees think creatively. Moreo...