The Power of Bottom-Up Innovation: Transforming Companies from Within

Are you tired of relying on top-down strategies that stifle creativity and limit growth? It's time to explore the power of bottom-up innovation. In this video, we'll show you how this approach revolutionized Birla’s innovation program by empowering employees and fostering collaboration.
One of the biggest challenges for a global organization like Aditya Birla Group was engaging everyone from every part of the world and getting them involved in the process. This is where Hype came in, as a way to catalyze the process and create a global community with a global reach, where employees from different plants, functions, and departments can come together, share their ideas, workshop on each other's ideas, and be part of the ideation and implementation process.
Engagement is a crucial part of the innovation process, particularly for HR professionals working in training and development. The goal is to ensure that employees feel empowered to be part of the innovation process and understand that they are the drivers of the process. To achieve this, the initiative cannot be seen as being driven by one particular group or department. Instead, everyone needs to own the process collectively. The organization has created networks of ambassadors across the organization to get employees involved in the process, avoiding the perception that this is a corporate initiative being driven from the top down. The organization wants to drive innovation from the bottom up, making it organic, grassroots, and part of everyone's daily role.
In conclusion, by empowering employees, driving innovation from the bottom up, and tailoring the process to the organization's needs, Hype has been instrumental in the program's success.
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