{"id":305,"date":"2011-01-13T05:48:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T21:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=305"},"modified":"2011-01-13T05:48:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T21:48:45","slug":"so-youre-in-charge-of-innovation-read-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"So you&#8217;re in charge of innovation?  Read this&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From James Gardner (Chief Technology Officer at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwp.gov.uk\/\"> Department for Work and Pensions<\/a> in the UK, and ex- innovation guru at Lloyds Bank) comes this ode to senior executives who find themselves in the startling &#8211; and potentially exciting &#8211; position of holding the innovation candle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You need to build your innovation effort from the bottom up as well as from the top down. The little people at the front line are just as important as the ones in the center who make the decisions. It is the front line and their managers, after all, who will be affected by anything you do. If they love your innovation effort, they will make sure you succeed. If they don\u2019t, you will certainly fail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/bankervision.typepad.com\/bankervision\/2011\/01\/dear-senior-executive.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bankervision+%28BankerVision%29\">Dear Senior Executive&#8230; &#8211; BankerVision<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From James Gardner (Chief Technology Officer at the Department for Work and Pensions in the UK, and ex- innovation guru at Lloyds Bank) comes this ode to senior executives who find themselves in the startling &#8211; and potentially exciting &#8211; position of holding the innovation candle: You need to build your innovation effort from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}