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# What percentage of your company should be actively engaged in innovation?
- URL: https://www.pesec.no/what-percentage-of-your-company-should-be-actively-engaged-in-innovation/
- Published: 2020-08-20T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-08-20T07:00:00.000Z
- Description: Everybody should have the right to innovate, but not everybody should be measured on innovation performance.
- Author: Bruno Pešec
- Tags: Innovation, Continuous Improvement

Following the [webinar](https://www.pesec.no/tag/webinar/) I did with Cris Beswick, Andrew Sandford asked:

> My question is that if you were asked by these leaders of global brands what % of our organization or teams do we need actively engaged in innovation? Bruno Pešec what about you and Katie Anderson do you have an opinion what do Toyota aim for(i think I know the answer)? 25% engagement is a stat bounced about for a successful change. I am intrigued. What does anyone else think.

Here is my brief reply, expanded with further reading for each point:

- Continuous improvement mindset and practices enable and enhance innovation. Latter can exists without the former, but that is rather sad existence.

[A slice at a timeBreakthrough innovation happens more often within a culture that fosters everyday innovation.![](https://www.pesec.no/favicon.png)Bruno PešecBruno Pešec![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/72/d5/72d522ba-f2e5-4415-a19c-d8f567c36347/content/images/2020/06/A-slice-at-a-time.png)](https://www.pesec.no/a-slice-at-a-time/)

- Everybody should have the right to innovate (e.g. propose and submit ideas), but not everybody should be measured on innovation performance. Creativity does not discriminate.

[Create the futureThe old adage offence is best defence might be true to some extent, but is too black and white for my taste.![](https://www.pesec.no/favicon.png)Bruno PešecBruno Pešec![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/72/d5/72d522ba-f2e5-4415-a19c-d8f567c36347/content/images/2020/07/Create-the-future.png)](https://www.pesec.no/create-the-future/)

- I'm a pragmatist, not dogmatist. Picking a set % for structural change seems more dogmatic/cargo-cultish than pragmatic. Each organisation is unique, each market is different.

[VestigesOn weaving traces into models.![](https://www.pesec.no/favicon.png)Bruno PešecBruno Pešec![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/72/d5/72d522ba-f2e5-4415-a19c-d8f567c36347/content/images/2020/08/Bruno-Unfiltered--4-.png)](https://www.pesec.no/vestiges/)

- When organisation has a clear strategy, with a joint understanding of how innovation fits in, then they can play with different structures to find which one works best for them. In that period of time.

[Are we on the same page?Strategy can be a powerful filter, but won’t be of much help if it is poorly thought through, unintelligible, and inaccessible to the intended users.![](https://www.pesec.no/favicon.png)Bruno PešecBruno Pešec![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/72/d5/72d522ba-f2e5-4415-a19c-d8f567c36347/content/images/2020/07/Are-we-on-the-same-page.png)](https://www.pesec.no/are-we-on-the-same-page/)

- Back to continuous improvement, as that one seems to be much simpler dilemma: everybody, everywhere, everyday.

[Better banking—everyday in everywayBanks that are excelling at continuous improvement also have much higher chance of succeeding with innovation.![](https://www.pesec.no/favicon.png)Bruno PešecBruno Pešec![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/72/d5/72d522ba-f2e5-4415-a19c-d8f567c36347/content/images/2020/08/Untitled-design-51.jpg)](https://www.pesec.no/better-banking-everyday-in-everyway/)

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