ABSTRACT

This chapter aims to serve as an innovation guide for organizations. It describes ways to enhance an organization's innovation and the major aspects of an innovative organization's culture. The chapter shows that direct methods to apply to a design challenge. These methods were grouped into ideation methods, and box-buster tips. The chapter also describes a set of methods that organizations use to strengthen their innovative ability. There are many aspects to an organizational culture that facilitate disruptive innovations. Physical environment often tells a story regarding the organization's leadership structure and communication protocols. Research shows that individual rewards as opposed to traditional rewards tend to foster innovation. Many organizations verbalize the positive aspects of taking risks and the tolerance for failure, but their unwritten rules, codified in quarterly reports and mid-level management's assessment of those that report to them, loudly nullify any tendency to take risks.