Insights for Innovators From UVA Darden Executive Education’s Innovation Summit
Professor Ed Hess led the second annual Innovation Summit in the Washington, D.C., area, helping enable innovators with insights to grow their businesses.
Darden Executive Education hosted its second annual Innovation Summit in the Washington, D.C., area in May. At the summit, titled Growing and Enabling Innovators, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Ed Hess offered insights on how organizations can grow and innovate for summit participants representing industries from the military and nonprofit to health care and investing.
Executive Education covered the event on its blog, including some of Hess’ key insights:
In our society, humans are programmed to strive for operational excellence and not make mistakes. Yet innovation relies on experimentation and failure. It is a mindset shift that individuals are not capable of making on their own because of cognitive and emotional inhibitors such as ego, fear and biases. It requires the right environment, processes and leadership. Characteristics of successful organizations in the Smart Machine Age include traits such as:
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