how operational innovation can transform your company
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Deep ChangeHow Operational Innovation can Transform Your Company
By Michael Hammer
Meet Bill.
Bill is...• Creative...thinks outside the box• Influential...respectable and
trustworthy• The type of guy who goes big
(but doesn’t go home)
Bill wondered...
Step 1:Look for role
models outside your
industry
Step 2:Identify and
defy constraining assumptions
Step 3:Rethink critical dimensions of
work
Bill, BEWARE!
Organizational barriers exist to operational innovation.
These include:1. Business culture undervalues
operations2. Top management ignorant
about operations3. Lack of ownership Not built
in to formal org. structure
Then Bill throws a party to celebrate success!
...While the company refined its innovation, it
continued to look for new methods of
operational innovation.
Great success, Bill!
Big Idea #1Companies can gain competitive
advantage through operational innovation.
• Organizational complacency:– Organizations content with methods by which
operations are executed– continue to do what “has worked for them in the past”
(Kotter, 2008, p. 21)
Big Idea #2Operational innovation should
be the way of life.
• Organizations continuously change in order to thrive– Encourage a business culture that promotes
change
Big Idea #3Operational innovation is increasingly important due to global competition and
low industry growth.