What makes some organizations more innovative than others?
Innovation follows from strategy and structure. A good strategy allows individuals to impose their own imagination towards organizational goals in a coordinated way. Good structure adds incentives that encourage creativity and removes requirements that stifle personal freedom. Together, a simple strategy, strong incentives, and personal freedom make organizations innovative. A complex strategy, weak incentives, and bureaucratic requirements reduce innovation.
About Goran
I am a strategy and innovation scholar and the Entrepreneurial Leadership Chair in Strategic Business Studies at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business and Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School. I launched The Clinic at the Ron Joyce Center, an Innovation and Commercialization Lab, at McMaster University. My research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. I hold a Ph.D. in Strategy, with a minor in Economics, and an MBA, with a minor in Finance, from the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. My undergraduate degree is in Business Commerce from the University of Ottawa's Telfer School of Management. I completed a Post Doc. in Mathematical and Computational Cognitive Science in Dr. Sebastien Helie's lab at Purdue University.
Applied Strategic Management
Strategic Management is about efficient and effective management and the challenges arising from an ever-changing world. The field of Strategy is one of application, as a source of thinking and experience that creates value for society by making organizations better. The ultimate test of the relevance and value of the field of Strategic Management resides in the practice of management.
The following are some of the teaching and research questions I am interested in. To inquire about a speaking or research engagement, contact me or McMaster Executive Education.
Research & Interests
Creativity and Innovation
Creativity
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Creativity Not Wanted
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What’s your Creative Profile?