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Executives worldwide want their organisations to be innovative. And, of course, news media firms always have been. Innovation – the process of transforming creative ideas into outputs with impact – has, and continues to be, the fuel that drives newsroom engines at every organisation. But wide-ranging changes compel us to rethink how we go about innovation in every part of our enterprises – across editorial, commercial, technology and operations. We also need to identify and develop new opportunities to sustain and grow our businesses.
Decisions about what to innovate and how to go about it fall largely to the company’s leadership. That is why WAN-IFRA has once again teamed up with Dr François Nel and Dr Coral Milburn-Curtis of the Innovation Research Group to survey decision-makers worldwide in 11 languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
The perspective of this report is truly global. The 7th annual world news media innovation study had 235 responses from 68 countries across six continents: Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe, North America, and South America.
By far the largest group of respondents, 43 percent, sit in C-suites, serve on boards, or own their companies. Other responses came from editorial, commercial, and technology managers, as well as from a very small number (2 percent) of consultants and academics.
The survey’s 22 questions look at four areas:
This 86-page report analyzes the responses in depth.
First, it reports back on the the current situation: how the respondents' firms have performed financially during the past year, what the primary sources of those revenues are and the risks they face. Then, it reports on their short and medium-term outlooks, along with 10 key areas the respondents say their organisations need to change to achieve their aims. Finally, because respondents flagged the importance of their organisation’s capacity to innovate, it looks more closely at that issue.
In Chapter 4, it considers the building blocks of an innovation culture. It also uses advanced statistical methods to analyse the relationship between organisational culture and organisational success – and it points out the strong link between Innovation Role Models and company performance.
To provide additional insights and suggest further practical action points for consideration, the authors invited five guest analysts to contribute to this report.
These are a few of the key takeaways from the survey results:
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