Contents
- Executive summary 3
- Introduction 4
- Part 1: The organization’s need for innovation 5
- Part 2: The organization’s vision and strategy for innovation 7
- Part 3: Context, competencies and culture for innovation 9
- Innovation in the core business process 9
- Business Environment supporting innovation 10
- Part 4: Learning for innovation 13
- Existing Learning Avenues 13
- Additional learning for innovation 14
- Ability of Toll Group to continuously innovate and change 15
- Part 5: Potential change management issues 16
- Overall Change process 16
- Barriers and Enablers 16
- Internal and External Communication 17
- Leadership and Change Agent roles 18
- Measurement and evaluation techniques 18
- Bibliography 20
Description
This report is based on the following requirement –
Critically evaluate your chosen organisation's current innovation position
with respect to the following five areas.
Part 1: The organisation's need for innovation
Points to consider:
• What are the general imperatives in this industry sector?
• How have these changed in the last five (5) to ten (10) years?
• What specific Innovation imperatives face your chosen organisation?
• What is the organisation's current level of Innovation?
• How does this compare with other more innovative organisations?
Part 2: The organisation's vision and strategy for innovation
Points to consider:
• How well does the current vision and strategy address the need for innovation?
• What components does the vision contain?
• Does the innovation strategy differ from corporate strategy?
Part 3: Context, competencies and culture for innovation
Points to consider:
• To what extent is Innovation currently a core business process?
• Which aspects of the organisation and its environment currently support innovation?
• Which of these are most critical and why?
Part 4: Learning for innovation
Points to consider:
• What avenues for learning currently exist in the organisation?
• Which additional ones are most likely to be of value for the organisation and why?
• To what extent is the organisation able to continuously innovate and change?
Part 5: Potential change management issues
Points to consider:
• overall change process
• barriers and enablers to change
• internal and external communications
• leadership and change agent roles
• project management and measurement requirements.