Μάιος 2021
There is no plenty of discussions around innovation in recent years – there is plenty of studies, articles, courses, conferences, congresses, even prizes. There is little understanding, though, on the actual accelera-tors and inhibitors of applying innovations in a real business environment.
The stance of C-level executives, and especially that of the CEO, plays a tremendously decisive role in this direction. Most often than not, it is the Executive Commit-tee the gives the innovation initiatives “tone” within a com-pany. There might be lots of innovation initiatives presented and even decided, but only those “blessed” and embraced by top management will proceed successfully. The reason is simple: if top management ap-proves, supports, and encourages an innovation proposal, then re-sources (capital, people, tools time, and effort) are relatively easy to be provided. In this way, the innovation project is highly likely to end up suc-cessfully.