Contents

• Executive summary 2
• Introduction 4
• Part 1: The organization’s need for innovation 5
• Part 2: The organization’s vision and strategy for innovation 7
• Mission 7
• Vision and Values 8
• Innovation strategy and Corporate Strategy comparison 10
• Part 3: Context, competencies and culture for innovation 11
• Innovation in the core business process 11
• Business Environment supporting innovation 12
• Part 4: Learning for innovation 14
• Existing Learning Avenues 14
• Additional learning for innovation 15
• Ability of Tesco to continuously innovate and change 17
• Part 5: Potential change management issues 17
• Overall Change process 17
• Barriers and Enablers 18
• Internal and External Communication 19
• Leadership and Change Agent roles 20
• Measurement and evaluation techniques 20
• Bibliography 21

Description

This report is based on the following criteria –
Critically evaluate your chosen organisation's current innovation position with respect to the following five areas.
Part 1: The organisation's need for innovation
Points to consider:
• What are the general imperatives in this industry sector?
• How have these changed in the last five (5) to ten (10) years?
• What specific Innovation imperatives face your chosen organisation?
• What is the organisation's current level of Innovation?
• How does this compare with other more innovative organisations?
Part 2: The organisation's vision and strategy for innovation
Points to consider:
• How well does the current vision and strategy address the need for innovation?
• What components does the vision contain?
• Does the innovation strategy differ from corporate strategy?
Part 3: Context, competencies and culture for innovation
Points to consider:
• To what extent is Innovation currently a core business process?
• Which aspects of the organisation and its environment currently support innovation?
• Which of these are most critical and why?
Part 4: Learning for innovation
Points to consider:
• What avenues for learning currently exist in the organisation?
• Which additional ones are most likely to be of value for the organisation and why?
• To what extent is the organisation able to continuously innovate and change?
Part 5: Potential change management issues
Points to consider:
• overall change process
• barriers and enablers to change
• internal and external communications
• leadership and change agent roles
• project management and measurement requirements.