Organizational Development towards an Innovative Organization

Abstract

The objective of this thematic paper is to assess the level of innovativeness of Company A to determine the areas for improvement for the company to become an innovative organization. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the company’s executives, middle management, and operational level to assess the level of innovativeness of the company based on the 3S2C framework for innovative organization which consists of 5 key dimensions being the company’s Strategy, Structure, Support, Climate and Culture. The key dimensions consist of further sub-dimensions, which altogether make up 32 sub-dimensions. Based on this framework, the concept of maturity model is used as the tool to determine the level of innovativeness of each sub-dimension of the framework. The result shows the specific areas that Company A needs to improve, thus providing valuable insights for the company to effectively organize and plan for development activities to increase the level of innovativeness. In the recommendation, development activities are recommended and laid out in a roadmap to guide Company A towards being an innovative organization.