"Keeping Innovation Alive After the Consultant Leaves"
Published in Research*Technology Management Vol 43, No. 5, Sept-Oct 2000, pages 17-22.

Summary:
Leaders in Research & Development usually want consistently higher levels of innovative outcomes from their organizations than they normally experience. Attempts at "shotgunning" the problem may produce sporadic results, but generally innovative outcomes diminish when the shotgun is put away. A better way to sustain innovation is to make it as much of the value system as, say, honesty and integrity. The author shows that this requires making innovation a high organizational value, with specific actions leaders can take to make it happen.

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