How To EVALUATE INNOVATION PERFORMANCE OF WORKFORCES: Tools and Techniques to Do It the Right Way

You cannot evaluate workforce innovation using traditional appraisals! Over the years of offering workforce innovation training/consulting and interacting with organizational leaders in Europe, U.S.A, Africa, Caribbean, Asia, Latin America, David Masumba has gained deeper insight on why despite innovation being at the top of every executive"s priority list, companies still fail to create a culture of innovation that delivers meaningful innovation-driven results across functional units. One of the reasons is that many companies tend to apply wrong and outdated tools that turn out to be ineffective in creating a culture of innovation.An example of such a tool is assessing innovation performance of workforces. Many companies still use traditional workforce performance appraisals to drive innovation. Many studies have revealed that while many organizational leaders emphasize constantly generating innovative ideas, they still subject employees to traditional performance appraisals and reward practices as tools for stimulating innovation performance across functional units. This is imprudent! How to Evaluate Innovation Performance of Workforces prescribes the right tools and approaches for assessing and rewarding the innovation performance of workforces on a continual basis. If implemented effectively, the tools in this book are designed to help companies produce innovation performance results in terms of: -Increased number of innovative ideas across all functional activities of the company-Increase in innovation-driven revenues -Increase in innovation-driven cost-savings -Enhanced competitiveness and resilience of the company"s business platforms