Business Week published a nice article on how the Indian Tata Group builds a culture of innovation. The word ‘culture’ may suggest that innovation is hard to grasp. Not true in the Tata case. They have implemented very practical formal instruments to foster innovation in the organization. These instruments range from the Tata Group Innovation Forum, an Innovation Competition and Innovation Labs to 5 hours per week for personal projects. The good thing of this example is that it showns that your can build innovation into the DNA of an organization, even with the size of Tata. In my opinion it is about a combination of formal instruments and consistent internal communication. Tata shows that this can be the winning formula!

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