Companies have a lot of changed my mind, this innovation appeared better than big ideas. many companies are chasing the big innovation is playing an important role in the company's future, but companies often inhibit themselves by focusing on finding the next big thing, when in fact, the next small thing might be more profitable.
Is directly related to the effectiveness and speed to compete, calculate how much costs have been wasted when he took out something new, compared with existing add and make it more than ever.
In fact the company will dibenturkan the value of employee creativity.
The more that employees are encouraged to think creatively and apply creativity, which is more flexible and agile practices in a company to be responsive. When you take the pressure from the people to come with a "great" ideas, encourage creativity you can bring incremental innovation. As a result, new services or products offered may appear, but it's more likely that you will optimize your operating costs, quality, efficiency, and speed.
In essence, innovation is applied creativity. And, it was my belief because I've seen over the years is that most employees can be encouraged to be creative, if you want them to be.
How you can push a little innovation?
Think small. The beauty of small innovations is that they focus on immediate concerns, rather than on the game to find the product changes. Encourage people to find solutions to problems, or better ways of doing things.
Try asking the question: How do I streamline billing accounting? How to solve customer service problems on the phone without supervisory intervention? How to find the product engineers more time to spend time with customers? Using a question like that would make people generate ideas. Not every idea will be brilliant, but that's the point. You want to collect ideas, improve them and select the best for implementation.
Implement locally. Since most small innovations is limited to the department or function, putting them into action as soon as possible. If the idea does not work as expected, do not leave immediately - See if you can tweak it. The implementation itself can be creative and sometimes takes several tries to create innovative ideas to work as expected, or unexpected.
Promote widely. You need to recognize the people who think and supporting innovation. Many organizations provide incentives for such efforts were, from gift certificates along the way to substantive innovation bonus to positively affect the entire company. What is important is to identify the right people, and to do so in a timely manner.
Encouraging small innovation management is only part of the equation. Implementation of innovation is very important. No amount of creativity can be applied to slip deadlines, blown budgets, customers are not satisfied, or not balanced profit and loss. You need to focus on the details to get things done.
You may also find other benefits from your small innovations: press into the collective brain of your employees. They are collaborators, and by treating them like that you make people know that you welcome their ideas and will reward them.