Innovation Governance: How Top Management Organizes and Mobilizes for Innovation

CHAPTER 14

Aligning Individual and Collective Innovation Leadership

This book is based on a core belief, namely that sustained innovation performance is conditioned by the quality of the company's innovation governance. Management teams that are not fully satisfied with their innovation governance system – and Chapter 6 showed that they are numerous – need to start by building and sharing a vision of the desirable improvement path ahead. As with all major change efforts, a leap in innovation governance effectiveness requires a three-phase approach:

1. Creating a shared awareness of the current situation and issues. This implies agreeing on the deficiencies of the current governance system vis-à-vis best practice, on the benefits to be expected ...