Www.innovationtools.com/PDF/measuring_innovation.pdf. HR Tech Europe Blog - Human Resources Blogs and HR News on Technology and Collaborative Software. Using HR strategically for Innovation. Packaging up Management Innovation. The new strategy drove significant product, service and process innovations (see attached “Helpful Materials: Documents: MPC Strategy and Innovation Timeline.pdf”) by increasing employee autonomy, self-management and self-organization.
Our plants were already entrepreneurial and we (headquarters – HQ) were fairly hands-off, but the scale and scope of autonomy needed to grow to achieve our strategic goals. By freeing our people to innovate, they did just that. Unlike other companies with formal processes and procedures for self-managed and organized teams, our approach is informal, emergent, and maybe even ‘’genetic.” We felt creating policies and procedures for how teams are chosen, organized, led, or resources allocated ran counter to employee autonomy and entrepreneurship.
HR Policies Can Kill Innovation But HR Can Also Be A Great Encourager of Innovation! Www.ilr.cornell.edu/cahrs/research/whitepapers/upload/GlobalInnovation_HRKnowledgeSharing.pdf.