Harvard Business Review Webinar: Breaking Down Barriers to Innovation – Replay
March 30, 2020 at 12-1pm EDT
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Read the related article, Innovation isn't a luxury. It's a necessity.
To spur innovation, businesses have spent billions of dollars on internal venture capital, incubators, and accelerators. Yet survey after survey indicates these efforts aren’t producing results. Why not? Because firms fail to address one major obstacle: daily habits and routines in organizations stifle innovation. These barriers include poorly run meetings, no slack capacity, few opportunities to speak up, and the notion that doing things differently is inefficient and costly. Fortunately — as Scott D. Anthony and his coauthors conclude in the recent Harvard Business Review article “Breaking Down the Barriers to Innovation” — it’s possible to hack this problem.
The solution is using interventions called BEANs to break down innovation blockers:
- Behavioral enablers are tools or processes that make it easier for people to do something differently.
- Artifacts, which you can see or touch, support the new behavior.
- Nudges promote change through indirect suggestion and reinforcement.
In a Harvard Business Review webinar sponsored by DXC Technology, Scott D. Anthony discussed:
- Common barriers to innovation
- What BEANs are and how they solve innovation barriers
- Real-world examples of companies that have used BEANs to unleash innovation
- How any organization can create its own BEANs by identifying the behaviors it wants, examining what’s getting in the way, and brainstorming ways to bust those bad habits
Scott D. Anthony is a senior partner of the growth strategy consulting firm Innosight.