Top 10 Innovation Challenges for most organizations in the world

1. Top
INNOVATION
Challenges

2. Innovation
Challenge
No.1
Unclear Strategy, the link 战略不清或者创新与
between innovation and
strategy is too weak, hence 战略联系不起来，导
the goal is abstract. 致目标和方向不明。

3. Innovation
Challenge
No.2
Viewing innovation too narrowly
as technological breakthrough
blinds companies to
opportunities.
对创新片面的定义和理解，
导致过度关注技术创新，忽
视其他给公司可能带来新价
值的机会。

4. Innovation
Challenge
No.3
CEO = CIO 没有得到公司高层的充分支
持，老板口头支持，但在资
源有限的时候，不可避免地
把创新束之高阁。
Not getting buy-in and ownership
from senior management so
scarce resources of time and
budget to will be devoted to
innovation.

5. Innovation
Challenge
No.4
Insufficient Resources for innovation,
not creating Bandwidth to make
people think about innovation.
缺少足够的资源支持创新，
没有创造足够的时空频宽去
让大家思考创新。

6. Innovation
Challenge
No.5
Not having a dedicated
innovation Team to promote
innovation internally.
缺少一个能在组织内部长期
推动创新的团队，让全员参
与到创新中来。

7. Innovation
Challenge
No.6
Not having rigorous
process to turn new
ideas into business value
缺少完善，独立严谨的创新
流程一步步把点子变成有商
业价值的创新。

8. Innovation
Challenge
No.7
Not having innovation metrics.
Too many me-too product
and incremental innovation
caused by traditional metrics.
缺少系统创新评估体系，用
传统的评估方式评估创新，
导致产生大量对企业长期发
展贡献不大的渐进式创新。

9. Innovation
Challenge
No.8
Not leveraging diversity,collabration
and open innovation.
Ineffective communication.
Too much focus on internal
capability.
缺少协作，多元化与开放。
公司内部部门之间的隔阂阻碍创
新，创新人员单一化背景阻碍创
新，公司过于注重内部能力，导
致与外部的合作交流不够。

10. Innovation
Challenge
No.9
Not having innovation
culture, fear of failure and
being against taking risk.
缺少创新文化，普遍
缺乏创新意识，不敢冒
险，害怕失败。

11. Innovation
Challenge
No.10
Not having training and coaching
with right methodologies, skillsets
and tools to innovate more
effectively.
缺少对于创新方法，工具和知识
的学习。

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Lloyd He 贺远超
Senior Consultant at China institute for Innovation 中国创新研究所高级顾问
Lloyd.ho@innoenterprise.com