Giving Compass' Take:

•  Jennifer Bradley, writing for The Aspen Institute, discusses core questions that examine how organizations practice inclusive innovation within their work. 

• What other questions are important to ask? What are examples of successful innovative inclusion?

• Here's how transforming workplace culture through inclusive practices. 

First, all policies and practices are based on values, including efficiency, preservation of the status quo, disruption, maximizing profit, equity, inclusion, and countless others.  But (while there are many wonderful exceptions) organizations, governments, and people are often not explicit about the values that guide their work. People and organizations tend to be good at articulating goals, but if they don’t also articulate the values that form a foundation for those goals, they can’t be held accountable for whether those goals are aligned with those values or whether the processes they use to achieve them are aligned with their values.

Key questions:

  1. What values guide your work?
  2. Can you tell us about a time when some of your values were in conflict, and how you resolved that?
  3. What do you think is the purpose of values?
  4. Tell me about a time that your organizational values guided you through a difficult decision.
  5. How do you hold yourself accountable to your values?

Read the full article on inclusive innovation by Jennifer Bradley at The Aspen Institute.