IMPQI320 – Encourage innovation in organisational improvement in food operations
Overview
This standard is about the skills and knowledge needed for you to encourage innovation in organisational improvement, to support your organisation's drive to improve food operations. This is important in increasing productivity and success of manufacture, processing and supply within the food supply chain. Innovation is pivotal to the development of new practices and improvements that make a difference to organisational performance.
You will need to lead on creating a work environment where innovation is valued and central to improvement within your organisation. You will need to show and understand how you encourage and support the identification of new ideas from within your organisation and from external influences. You will need to review the innovation policy, help develop ideas and support their implementation.
This standard applies to you if you are a director, manager or consultant who has responsibility to encourage innovation in organisational improvement, in food or drink operations including manufacturing, processing, packing or supply chain activities.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Develop an innovation policy
review the approaches to innovation in your organisation
develop an innovation strategy and policy to support improvement and communicate this to relevant people
motivate the workforce to identify and share ideas including the provision of constructive feedback
provide time and resources to allow the development of ideas
forge external contacts with experts and external organisations to allow the exchange of ideas
Encourage and support innovation
create and support a culture where taking acceptable risks in pursuing innovation is acceptable in a managed improvement environment
evaluate new ideas, approve those which appear viable, monitor and review their progress
create systems for the measurement of innovation
provide feedback to relevant teams and individuals
give positive recognition to originators and developers of successful ideas
share information on innovation across your organisation
Obtain and provide feedback on the innovation policy
evaluate the success of the implementation of your innovation policy, identifying what lessons can be learned and recognising the contributions of any managers and other colleagues
seek feedback on the value of your contribution to innovation as required by the improvement strategy
check current status of the impact of the innovation policy
provide feedback on your contribution to the innovation policy to the relevant personnel
Knowledge and understanding
You need to know and understand
your organisation's vision, strategy and objectives for improvement
the benefits of innovation to the organisation, customers and stakeholders
the difference between creativity and innovation
how to identify the level of innovation within your organisation, including the kind of approach taken, strengths, weaknesses and obstacles to the use of innovation in improvement
how to develop an innovation strategy that is key to improvement in your organisation and how to communicate it across the workforce
how to use and choose different methods to motivate the workforce to generate, develop and share ideas
the methods of forging partnerships with external experts and organisations which can help in the generation of new ideas
the importance of communication in the creative process
the potential obstacles to innovation and whether and how they can be removed
the key stages in the creative process
the key stages in the innovation process
why it is important to learn from mistakes
how to recognise and manage risk in innovation
how to provide constructive feedback on ideas
how ideas can be developed and trialled
why it is important to provide time and resources to support the creative and innovative process and how to identify what is needed for this support
how to protect ideas and innovation
how to evaluate ideas, the implications of putting them in to practise and how to approve those which appear viable
how to give positive recognition to originators and developers of successful ideas
how to establish systems for measuring and reporting on innovation and provide feedback to relevant teams and individuals
IMPQI320 – Encourage innovation in organisational improvement in food operations
Overview
This standard is about the skills and knowledge needed for you to encourage innovation in organisational improvement, to support your organisation's drive to improve food operations. This is important in increasing productivity and success of manufacture, processing and supply within the food supply chain. Innovation is pivotal to the development of new practices and improvements that make a difference to organisational performance.
You will need to lead on creating a work environment where innovation is valued and central to improvement within your organisation. You will need to show and understand how you encourage and support the identification of new ideas from within your organisation and from external influences. You will need to review the innovation policy, help develop ideas and support their implementation.
This standard applies to you if you are a director, manager or consultant who has responsibility to encourage innovation in organisational improvement, in food or drink operations including manufacturing, processing, packing or supply chain activities.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Develop an innovation policy
Encourage and support innovation
Obtain and provide feedback on the innovation policy
Knowledge and understanding
You need to know and understand
Keywords: Food; Operations; Manufacturing; Excellence; Improvement; Innovation