Why I encourage daydreaming at work and how to turn it into innovation

Get the Full StoryBooz Allen Hamilton s Susan Penfield discusses how employees who are given the time to use their entrepreneurial skills to develop new ideas and solutions can help drive an innovative workforce.

In my career as a technologist, strategist, and now chief innovation officer for a Fortune 500 company, I ve learned a valuable lesson. If you want an innovative culture, you need to empower employees to pursue their daydreams during work hours. My thesis is simple: If your workforce has the curiosity to develop original solutions around their passion projects, then giving them the space to experiment only increases their ability to apply adjacent innovation to client problems as well.Read Full Story

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