Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire

Epilogue

Now that you've read the whole book (I hope), I thought I would leave you with the results of a poll that I conducted on LinkedIn (see Figure E.1 through E.6), along with some of the comments:

	Every stakeholder in the organisation has good education and understanding of the need for innovation—take for example NHS system. Everyone has great backgrounds, but has a lack of will to do the necessary actions. This is my argument for trust and respect is the reason that innovation fails.
	--—Niels-Peter Thoms

	Although limited resources are a key barrier, the underlying cause for a weak innovation program is the lack of leadership commitment to the hard work required for meaningful innovation. If the commitment was there, the resources would be abundant.
	--—George Cugini

	Our organization is used to strong leadership so the psychology of taking a risk and moving forward with innovation at the worker level is scary. In addition, although we have a strategy, we haven't implemented enough tools and processes so employees feel like they understand how to move forward.
	--—Karen Bradbury

	Information sharing is the key barrier. Lack of knowledge sharing and using the existing knowledge, I always say "If we only knew what we know, innovation would go a lot faster."
	--—Nel Mostert

Figure E.1. Biggest Barrier to Innovation

Figure E.2. Barrier Job Title

Figure E.3. Poll Barrier Function

Figure E.4. Poll ...