50 Ways to Increase Organizational Creativity and Innovativeness
On 12manage I found an interesting forum discussion mentioning no less than 50 ways to stimulate employee creativity and innovativeness.
Some of the most interesting suggestions include:
- Organize training in creativity methods
- Ask your employees how THEY believe how creativity and innovation can be increased
- Implement lateral thinking
- Grant more freedom to employees
- Creates a safe, fearless and risk-taking environment
- Do away with a blame culture
- Institute organizational learning
- Appoint a central facilitator
- Avoid rules, regulations and restrictions
- Stop immediate filtering
- Give employees time to think and work on their own projects
- Look for inspiration outside the own company borders