From Junior Innovation Manager to Chief Innovation Officer
“There is a growing focus on jobs in innovation and on service, away from manufacturing”, says economist Dr. Mike Walden. While his statement underpins the overall shift from products to services (and experiences), it also refers to the growing number of jobs dedicated to innovation, usually but not always with “innovation” in the new job titles.
Most companies still allocate their innovation responsibilities to people in existing functions within the Marketing, Engineering or R&D department. Without a true innovative mindset or appropriate metrics in place, it will often stay a ‘nice-to-have’ next to short term deadlines and targets. Leading organisations value that innovation transcends functional boundaries, and have created new roles from Junior Innovation Managers up to Chief Innovation Officers. Especially when you consider business model innovation, innovation is much more than developing new products or services. It is about changing the entire way of thinking and operating as an organisation, as in from analog to digital photography, or from paid to free press. It has proven very difficult to drive these radical changes from within existing functional boundaries, which further strengthes the need for Chief Innovation Officers, Vice Presidents of Innovation, Chief Strategy Officers… or innovation councils.
With a growing number of jobs in innovation, we had the idea of setting up an Innovation Job Board. The job board filters and features jobs with clear innovation responsibilities, and gives employers the opportunity to post their job openings to a highly qualified audience of innovation professionals. We hope you enjoy it and welcome your comments!
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