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A new ASTD-14cp study explores learning's role in creating a culture that supports innovation.
The ability to actively promote, develop, and sustain a culture of innovation has become a matter of paramount importance for many organizations. While innovation takes different shapes and plays various roles within organizations, the learning function is uniquely positioned to ensure that a culture of innovation is not onJy created but that it flourishes. Innovation does not occtir in a vacuum; the right approaches and strategies utilized by an engaged learning function can be critical to innovation and ultimately, an organization's success.
ASTD and i4cp collaborated recently to investigate the learning function's role in business innovation. The resulting report, Learning Io Innovate: Exploring Learning's Critical Role in Fostering innovation, found that thelearning function can, should, and does play a critical role in developing and sustaining the innovative culture that is the hallmark of successful organizations. The report, conducted in May 2011, is based on 1,194 responses from learning and business professionals.
This study examines the importance of innovation and the ways learning influences it. Specific focus differentiates the practices...