Your organization is more like a living organism than like a machine. Organisms naturally adapt and innovate in response to changes in their environment. In other words innovation is natural in a healthy organization. By removing blockages to the flow of information from the outside into your organization and across boundaries inside, your organization will naturally begin to innovate processes, products and services. People immediately begin to seize opportunities for innovation. If encouraged, every person in the organization can have their own innovation project. Energy for innovation means taking small steps to improve… continuously.

The latent energy that is released when each member of the organization makes an authentic, personal commitment to the organization’s transformation fuels invention — a creative step beyond innovation. When an invitation to invent is distributed to every member of the enterprise, the breakthroughs and step changes will emerge – from many surprising places. This in turn begins to produce excitement and new levels of communication across boundaries more energy to fuel new possibilities. This process will create a “virtuous loop” of increasing transformative change in the operations, practices and processes of the enterprise that will continue to grow as each success is seen.