10 Reasons to Hire a Part-Time Chief Innovation Officer

Braden Kelley is an innovation and change specialist, the author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire, an InnovationExcellence.com co-Founder, and is the creator of the Change Planning Toolkit™ and a book on the best practices and next practices of organizational change (January 2016 release).

  Governance   Innovation  

In my last article, we looked at the keys to How to Hire a Chief Innovation Officer, including some do’s and don’ts. I encourage you to follow the link and read the details of how to hire the right person to lead innovation in your organization, but to quickly highlight some of them…

The Don’ts:

• Don’t hire a chief innovation officer before the board of directors and senior leadership understands what innovation is (and isn’t)
• Don’t hire a chief innovation officer before the board of directors and senior leaders are all publicly committed to innovation
• Don’t hire a chief innovation officer before the board of directors and senior leadership have created a budget to fund discrete innovation projects
• Don’t hire a chief innovation officer before you move beyond the innovation as a project mindset to view innovation as a process and a capability that you need to build (like good governance or operational excellence)
• Don’t hire a chief innovation officer before you understand how new product development (NPD), research and development (R&D), and innovation will differ in your organization

The Do’s (the Seven Cs of a Successful Innovation Culture):

1. Cultivating a culture of curiosity
2. Collection of inspiration and insight
3. Connections
4. Creation
5. Collaboration
6. Commercialization
7. …

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