Monday, 2 April 2012

Strategic Leadership Lecture 8

In today, organisation creativity and innovation are an important aspect of effective strategic leadership. In essence, leadership is the most important aspect of the organisational creativity and innovation dynamics. For creativity and the spirit of innovation to be developed in any organisation, it must recognize the role of the leaders in encouraging creativity. Leaders can successfully encourage organisational creativity and innovation by designing the organisation to foster an environment that is conducive for creativity to flourish. Leaders can do this by building friendly and inclusive working conditions for the members of the organisation.

The essential thing I understood from IDEO case study is that, how the firm leadership was able to combine innovation and organisational culture. In IDEO, they created an organisational culture where creativity and innovation are component parts of the culture. In addition to this, the company leadership gathered workers from different education circumstances such as marketer, psychologist and so on. They respect, value, and harness the richness of ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives of every employee and allow them to use their unique personal assets and experiences to work for the organisation. The purpose of IDEO is to create and innovate; therefore the leadership designed everything in the organisation around that objective.

In terms of differences or similarities, it can be said that IDEO and Madonna have similarities such as creativity and innovation. The main reason why Madonna has been successful for many years is due to the manner she was able to rebrand herself. In other words, she was very creative and innovative and that`s the motive of her similarities with IDEO. On the other hand, IDEO is different than Carrefour, Challenger and NHS. For instance, they have distinct organisational culture and therefore the way creativities and innovations are considered in IDEO and other three organisations are completely different.
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