Driving transformation

In the businesses we partner with, we see that not innovating is no longer an option. All of us need to create what is not yet. This creates an opportunity like never before to re-imagine, innovate and transform your business and develop your leaders and their teams. More and more the key challenge shifts from ‘why’ to ‘how’ to innovate.

Each innovation process deals with uncertainty, ambiguity, and confusion. To come up with new directions you need to risk giving up your comfort zone, dare to break conventions and embrace the unknown. In our experience the best leaders are learners, the key is an openness to personal development, and being able to mobilize others in your organization to do the same. Entrepreneurial leaders are challenged to seek unusual ways to determine what’s next. And they are good at investigating possibilities, creating opportunities, and experimenting constantly. They create the right environment to drive innovation, dividing their organization into teams that focus on the ongoing business and other teams that focus on driving the desired transformation. And lastly, they identify the roles that are needed at the top to reimagine and then deliver on the company’s purpose – acknowledging that diversity makes us better.

Designing a new strategy and roadmap is only half the challenge to transform your business. Driving innovation requires identifying new leadership roles and the mindset shift that is needed for the business leaders as well. However, creating the circumstances that foster collaboration and create an innovative culture is more important than focusing on individual leadership competencies and skills only. 

Is your leadership team designed for innovation? Are you courageous enough to make a mind shift?