❶ Provide strategic alignment
❷ Define the innovation process publicly
❸ Build cross-functional expertise
❹ Establish a creative chaos environment
❺ Challenge assumptions
❻ Play simulation games with wild ideas
❼ Reward idea generation
❽ Experiment, learn and improve
❾ Allow freedom to fail
❿ Measure the progress
⓫ Make innovation fun
"The
driving force of innovation is love.
By its nature innovation is a science-flavored
art.
The process of innovation, ideally, is jazz −
improvisation within a guiding structure,
in reality, it is a football game."
~
Vadim Kotelnikov