Building a Culture of Innovation: A Practical Framework for Placing Innovation at the Core of Your Business

SHORTLISTED: CMI Management Book of the Year 2017 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship Category

Being a truly innovative company is more than dreaming up new products and services by external consultants and internal taskforces. Staying one step ahead of the competition requires you to embed innovation into your organizational culture. Innovation needs to be embodied in everything that gets done by everyone who works there. By changing your organizational culture to one that supports Building a Culture of Innovation, you will remove the barriers that stop you responding quickly and agilely to changing market conditions and opportunities for growth.

Building a Culture of Innovation presents a practical framework that you can follow to design and embed a culture of innovation in your business.The six-step Innovation Culture Change Framework offers a structured process to make change stick, from assessing your organization's innovation-readiness to leading a managed change process that will foster innovation at each level. It includes case studies from international organizations which have shifted their focus to an innovation culture, including Prudential, Qinetiq, Octopus Investments, Cisco, Siemens, BrightMove Media, Waitrose and Feefo.

Supported with downloadable resources, Building a Culture of Innovation is an essential read for business leaders and change implementation teams who want to place innovation at the heart of their business strategy.

Cris Beswick is a globally recognized authority on innovation strategy, leadership and culture. He has more than 25 years' experience as a CEO, entrepreneur, board advisor, and investor.

Cris helps Fortune 500 companies, governments, and global institutions build future-fit innovation capabilities and cultures that drive growth. As a trusted advisor to organizations around the world, Cris has developed unique expertise in the intersection of strategy, leadership, and human-centred culture.

A pioneer in measuring corporate innovation maturity, Cris brings a pragmatic, results-driven approach to organizational transformation. Cris is the co-author of Amazon bestseller and CMI Management Gold Award winner Building a Culture of Innovation.

He has delivered executive education at leading business schools like Cranfield School of Management and Henley Business School. An internationally sought-after keynote speaker, Cris serves on the advisory board at the Global Innovation Institute and as Senior Fellow at The Conference Board.

He continues shaping the future of corporate innovation through his dual perspective as both seasoned leader, entrepreneur and trusted advisor.

Formerly head of customer service at AXA, Derek Bishop has over twenty years experience of leading people and delivering business results in high volume, complex environments. As an expert on culture change, leadership development and customer experience he is considered one of the leading thinkers on creating high-performance businesses.

As well as being an author and speaker Derek Bishop is the co-founder of boutique agency Culture Consultancy and works with leadership teams of global organisations, helping to deliver sustainable performance improvements through successful organisational culture change. Thanks to his unique skill set, experience and thought leadership perspectives, Derek is also a trusted adviser to several CEOs and senior teams around the world.

Formerly head of HR for Goldman Sachs France and Switzerland and with 16 years experience working in change management for various investment banks across the globe, Jo Geraghty brings a wealth of practitioner experience to change projects.

With a global reputation as an expert in building high performance cultures, Jo Geraghty specialises in working with CEOs and leadership teams of global organisations operating in large, complex and regulated environments; helping to deliver sustainable performance improvements through successful organisational culture change. A co-founder of boutique agency Culture Consultancy, Jo is also a speaker on high-performance leadership and organisational culture and a regular guest lecturer at several of the UKs leading business schools.