Creativity and innovation don’t have to cost a fortune in R&D. If you can create the type of culture in your business that values risk-taking, collaboration and creative problem solving, you’ll be closer to an innovation culture than a big corporate that throws money at it.
Here are five things you and your employees can start doing today to get the creative ball rolling and get innovation thinking on the agenda.
1. Break down silos
Do your tech people know your marketing people, or do they glide by each other with barely a nod of recognition? It’s not about everyone being bosom buddies, because that’s often not realistic nor even productive; but it is about the different parts of your business having some empathy with employees in other parts of the business and knowledge about what goes on.
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