Manifesting your core values with citizen-driven innovation

In the contemporary business landscape, it’s almost universal for organizations to tout core values, often dovetailing with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that articulate their ethical compass and their commitment to societal and environmental betterment. Ideally, these values are more than familiar to every employee; they are internalized and serve as guiding principles for daily operations. However, the greater challenge for any organization is to keep these values from fading into the background, to prevent them from becoming mere slogans relegated to the office walls or the introductory pages of a website.

For values to be of any real consequence, they must be translated into palpable actions – transformed into living, breathing aspects of the organization’s culture. This begs the question: how can an organization authentically manifest that its actions are in sync with its professed ethos...