Some jobs require employees to be highly specialized in one innovative style. Air traffic controllers – aren’t we glad? Air traffic control is a very fast-paced, exacting profession.  Straying from what is protocol could result in drastic consequences. We don’t want these people to be learning and devising new ways

What do you do when innovation stagnates in your organization? Overcoming Innovation Stagnation This scatter diagram is from the archives. The story has a very happy ending as the company we profiled in this example has increased its share price 10x after years of stagnating. At the time, this was

What do you do when one innovation style dominates the others on your team? The Background The scatter diagram shows a strategy development team working at a large American health insurance company. Tasked with recommending a new corporate strategy to senior management, the team was unable to agree on a

What do you do when certain innovation styles are in short supply on your team? Understanding the importance of each of the four innovation styles and their roles in empowering teams is instrumental to organizational innovation and success. Optimizers and Implementers are the third and fourth (they appear on the

What do you do when one innovation style is in short supply in your organization? In a recent engagement, our team was called in to work with the top management team of a highly profitable manufacturing facility that was facing quality problems. Despite being quite successful, the facility encountered too

What do you do when one innovation style is in short supply in your organization? This team of restaurant managers in Southeast Asia recognized that they were implementers, a style well suited to the fast-moving restaurant business. Their resulting scatter diagram was no surprise to them. They spent a lot