At Ideacomb, we had conducted a survey of HR and Talent Management professionals about Role of HR in Innovation. We received comprehensive inputs from professionals across the industry verticals and we are very thankful to all for their time in participating this survey. Find herewith the slides SpadeWorx shared during a Webinar conducted on September 27, 2012.

1. Shekhar Dhongade
SpadeWorx Software Services, Inc
27th September’12

2. INNOVATION
REVOLUTIONARY

3. INNOVATION
EVOLUTIONARY

4. Achieving Balance
Revolutionary Evolutionary
Innovation Innovation

5. WHAT DRIVES INNOVATION?
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6. “There are only three measurements that tell you nearly
everything you need to know about your organization’s
overall performance: employee
engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash
flow…It goes without saying that no company, small or
large, can win over the long run without energized
employees who believe in the mission and understand
how to achieve it…”
- Jack Welch, former CEO of GE

7. What is Employee
Engagement?
 Team lunches
 Offsite meetings
 Performance Bonus
None of this results in consistently super-
charged, energized & engaged workforce

8. #1
Know Them
Know what’s most important to
people.
- from “Closing the Engagement Gap”

9. #2
Grow Them
Help them develop new skills
and advance their careers.
- from “Closing the Engagement Gap”

10. #3
Inspire Them
Embody your organization’s
values, and show concern
about employees’ well-being.
- from “Closing the Engagement Gap”

11. #4
Involve Them
Inform employees how they
contribute to the organization’s
performance, and involve them
in business processes.
- from “Closing the Engagement Gap”

12. #5
Reward Them
Appreciate their efforts, and
reward them for work well done.
- from “Closing the Engagement Gap”

13. Innovation &
Engaged Business
Customer
Employees Growth
Satisfaction

14. Happiness
Progress
Results
GenerationNext workforce
Innovation

15. To understand HR & Talent Management
executives perspective –
We launched a Survey “ Role of HR in
fostering innovation”

16. Thank you
for joining
me today!
shekhar.dhongade@spadeworx.com
Twitter: @shekhardhongade
LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/shekhardhongade

17. About myself

18. My Company
www.spadeworx.com
www.ideacomb.com

19.  Ideacomb conducted an online survey of HR & Talent
Management professionals across different Industry verticals
 www.surveymonkey.com was used for the purpose of capturing
responses
 Over 100+ HR and Talent Management executives within North
America participated in the survey
 93% of the respondents believe that HR & Talent Management
executives have a role in fostering the culture of innovation.
Here are our findings

20. Profile of Survey Participants
Company size (no. of employees)
1 - 10 11 - 50 51 - 200 201 - 500 501 - 1000 1001 - 5000 5000+
4%
16%
27%
14%
16% 23%

21. Industry Vertical
0% 1% 1% Agriculture, Mining
5% Construction
24% Finance, Insurance, Rea
l Estate
Government
1% 31%
1% Health Care
14% Internet
Manufacturing
9% 11%
2%
Retail, Wholesale

22. Who is accountable for
Innovation?
33% have a department
or function accountable
for innovation
CEO
Yes 6% 4%
33% Head of R&D
No Marketing
67% 46%
27%
Human
Resources
Learning &
9%
9% Development
Chief Innovation
46% believe innovation is Officer
the CEO’s responsibility

23. Do executives believe in
employee driven innovation?
How Important is employee-driven innovation to
the success of your organization?
Least Important Important Very Important
11%
21%
68%
Though…..

24. Innovation in Performance Review
Is "Innovation" one of Do innovation objectives
the key performance translate into "goals" for
objectives in the each employee?
performance review Yes No Not sure
process? 8%
Yes 31%
36%
No 62%
64%
OPPORTUNITY

25. What Motivates employees?
Team Progress 28.00%
Customer recognition 21.50%
Recognition by Management 65.60%
Opportunity to contribute in meaningful
52.70%
innovation
Financial Rewards 46.20%

26. Investment in Tools & Processes
Do you plan to invest in tools and processes to
enhance your innovation pipeline in 2012?
Yes No Undecided
30%
41%
29%

27. Conclusions
 Innovation is not just a CEO’s job or R&Ds
 Top down cultural change drives bottoms up
innovation
 Transparency in Communication  cultural
change
 INTENT is there , what about ACTION ?

29. Culture
 Transparency in operations :
Senior leadership adopting social
media tools
 Trust in employees, partners : Seek
contributions
 Throw challenges. institutionalize
risk taking & rewards

30. Process
 Innovation objectives & Goals for the
organization
 Capture employee contributions
(ideas, achievements) throughout the
year
 Embrace Feedback crowdsourcing -
feedback from across the organization
, not just manager inputs, in performance
reviews.

31. Tools
 Idea capture and crowdsourcing
 Instant feedback & Recognition thru
peer-reviews
 Collaboration & Messaging
 Employee blogs, wikis, Find Experts
– Proactive insights in your Talent
pool

32. Summary
 Strategically drive
cultural change starting
Tools with executive
leadership
Process
 Employ process model
that encourages
Innovation
Culture
 Deploy tools to bring in
visibility
Get your Innovation engine humming!

33. At Ideacomb our focus is on providing
TOOLS to improve “employee
engagement” & drive Innovation in an
enterprise!

34. Rich Dashboard:
Your idea Pipeline

35. Launch Idea Challenges

36. Ease of Idea
Posting

37. Robust evaluation
process Model

38. Social Features :
Engagement Drivers

39. Measure Outcomes

40. www.ideacomb.com
Ideate * Harvest * Emerge
Send your Comments/Feedback:
shekhar.dhongade@spadeworx.com
Shekhar Dhongade
Chief Operating Officer
SpadeWorx Software Services, Inc.