Surely some activities in your organization are important to measure. A scorecard captures the “Metrics That Matter” - Leading and Lagging. Historical, Current, and Target values.

Meetings are great opportunities for team members to build upon each others’ ideas. Meetings are critical for alignment. Know every trait of a good meeting in order to maximize them.

Although your innovation team is not literally a symphony, you should manage it like one because you want all the same things: accountability, clarity, harmony, attention to detail, synchronization, forgiveness, and a great performance. The language, habits, and culture of making music form a Graceful Factory.

Every innovation professional should have a grasp of the share of their time they spend on innovation, versus operations, versus chaos. Managers should be approximately on the same page with their employee’s view of their pie chart.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your autonomy? Consider tradeoffs of boundaries, centralization, risk, reward, and contingencies. Shape your methodology. Shape your autonomy.

Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your elasticity and resilience? Consider idle work, idle workers, a balanced innovation pipeline, spontaneous alternatives for stakeholders, and if you blame a hiring decision. Fix your methodology. Fix your elasticity.