Leadership and Innovation

"We need to be guided by a vision, rather than being pushed by the manager's problems" M. Tribes definitely successful companies in the current business scenarios are characterized by constantly new products resulting from its management has successfully interpreted the requirements of consumers and new trends that are happening in the markets where innovation plays a very important role. Hence, our focus in on what management should be considered in relation to innovation, and give way to their creative potential while motivating your staff, human resources involved in it. Michael A. West, James L. Farr suggests that innovation is the sequence of activities for which a new element is introduced into a social unit with the intention to benefit the unit, a part of it or to society as a whole. The elements need not be entirely new or unknown to members of the unit, but must involve some discernible change or challenge the status quo. "Wikipedia, gives us that innovation is the application of new ideas, concepts, products, services and practices, with the intention of being useful for increasing productivity.

An essential element of innovation is the commercially successful application. Not only do you have to invent something, but, for example, put it on the market so that people can enjoy it. Innovation requires awareness and balance to carry the ideas, imaginary or fictitious field, the field of embodiments and implementations.

Innovare Innovation comes from the Latin, meaning act or effect to innovate, to become new or renewal, introducing a novelty. Innovation is to create or find ideas, select, implement and commercialize them. The source of ideas is research and development, competition, seminars, exhibitions or fairs, customers and each employee of the company is a potential supplier of new ideas generating inputs to the process of innovation. Within the business processes of a company should consider the process of innovation that extends from idea generation through feasibility to test market the product or service. Images can refer to develop or improve a new product, service or process. We add, that business innovation is achieved in different ways paying much attention to research and development for "breakthrough innovations." But innovations may be developed by mere modifications in work practice, through exchanges and combinations of professional experience and in many other ways. The more radical and revolutionary innovations tend to come from R & D while more incremental often emerge from practice but there are exceptions to any of these two trends.

In both cases, innovations are documented and protected by patents or other intellectual property scheme. In fact, according to Michael Porter's level of innovation in one region can be estimated from the number of patents generated. Take into account that the development of organizations is closely linked to the leadership exercised by its directors, but at the same time, this development is based on the innovation capacity to carry out the people who make possible the permanence of the organization time. It is very true when it also indicates that there is a strong relationship between innovation leadership with the ability to proceed with the current managers, although they are different concepts that play distinct qualities, however, can not be separated from one another. In order to develop an innovative culture within the company, is a condition that their drivers to become leaders. When the leader is a true innovator, the company generated an environment for anyone to propose changes, and in cases that these are appropriate to carry out the. Organizations that have this kind of leadership, managers continually demonstrated innovative, able to guarantee the company a good competition, generate a very good product and make way for new products to surface that can lead to a favorable demand for the company offering it.'s innovation capacity of the leaders, then, is key to compete effectively. However, it is said, that this ability is something that not all people in formal leadership positions have.

It must give way to draw out this interest in innovation, to manifest openly and above all, to motivate people, workers also generate innovations, management must evaluate, consider when they think are beneficial. Managers must be able to produce the necessary innovations, although executives have traditional leadership. This can be achieved if other positions of the organization working people who are inclined towards the new and that can support at any given time these people who are willing to change things often against the will of their bosses. The problem arises in the levels of company management are committed to changing needs. Management should consider what scope is innovation and what it can lead to inculcating in the organization go towards a proactive organizational culture that encourages staff to express their ideas, opinions conducive environment that promotes good , where innovation may lead to favorable outcomes for all. Transformer or intrapreneurs Leadership makes possible an innovative culture, capable of being learned or developed, is what determines the type of culture that must be followed.