What is non-novation and why does it matter? It means not innovating, even while desiring innovation. It means doing things that would seem to drive new and meaningful change, but somehow the change does not happen. Innovators implement change, and non-novators take a detour.
Non-novation represents an ongoing and widespread problem for organizations. In a recent McKinsey poll, 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And managers may be even more dissatisfied with the rate of innovation of their HR departments. Alexander Mann Solutions and HRO Today commissioned a study to better understand this failure to innovate. In part one of this two-part series, we examined where HR looks for information on innovation and what impedes innovation.
Download the study to learn what leading factors are impeding innovation and how you can change them in HR to improve your business: