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SUCCESSFUL INNOVATION...
Successful innovation in organizations requires a combination of skills, supportive cultures and climates, structures and processes, and leadership.
The ISP 2.0 isolates the unique contribution that an individual’s skills, attitudes, and behaviours make to an organization’s innovation performance by focusing on creativity, problem-solving, and continuous improvement skills, risk assessment and risk-taking skills, relationship-building and communication skills, and implementation skills.
The ISP2.0 is designed for employers and employees. It is relevant to all organizations—regardless of size, function, or sector. The ISP2.0 can also be applied beyond the workplace by educators and students.
The skills, attitudes, and behaviours found in the ISP are not discrete, and should not be considered as independent or isolated attributes—they are overlapping and synchronous. Various combinations of skills may be used simultaneously and in various combinations throughout the innovation process.
Prepared with Support from Centre for Business Innovation Members:
• Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
• Bristol-Myers Squibb Canada
• Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC)
• Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
• Canada Foundation for Innovation
• Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP)
• Celestica Inc.
• Cisco Systems
• Council of Ontario Universities
• Deloitte
• Desjardins Group - Mouvement des caisses Desjardins
• GlaxoSmithKline Inc. • IBM Canada
• ICICI Bank of Canada • Industry Canada
• Lundbeck Canada Inc. • McKesson Canada
• Music Canada
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
• Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation
• Premier’s Technology Council • Sano Canada
• SaskTel
• Scotiabank
• Sustainable Development Technology Canada
About The Conference Board of Canada
The Conference Board of Canada is the foremost independent, not-for-pro t applied research organization in Canada. We help build leadership capacity for a better Canada by creating and sharing insights on economic trends, public policy and organizational performance. We forge relationships and deliver knowledge through our learning events, networks, research, and customized information services.
About the Centre for Business Innovation
The Conference Board’s Centre for Business Innovation (CBI) is helping
to bring about major improvements in rm-level business innovation in Canada. The CBI’s mission is to learn why Canada is not a leader in business innovation, to create insights for rms and capital markets that will improve rm-level innovation, to generate evidence and track our performance, and to formulate public policies that will successfully stimulate business innovation.
For more information on the Conference Board’s Centre for Business Innovation
visit www.conferenceboard.ca/CBI
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