Innovations as an Instrument for Development of the Organization’s Anti-Crisis Management

Abstract

The article explores the definition of the main instrument of anti-crisis management. The contents of the terms of «innovations» and «innovation activities» are defined. The relationship between innovations and the organization’s anti-crisis activities is substantiated. Available statistics such as the Global Innovation Index are researched. Ukraine’s place in the global innovation market is defined, as well as the distribution of innovations by category, the dynamics of development of innovations and their influence on organizations. The indicators reflecting the dynamics of innovations in each country are provided. Examples of successful innovations, which in the future will become an important aspect of management of the organization’s anti-crisis activities, as well as examples of application of innovations in different crisis situations and overcoming them, are presented. In Ukraine, innovation is only now beginning to be actively used to improve all processes in the organization. The structure of introduction of innovation in different spheres of organization is one of the important issues explored in this publication. The dynamics of innovation indicators at the domestic enterprises, obtained on the basis of statistics, are traced. Conclusions on innovation activities as an element of anti-crisis management are proposed. Having researched the structure of introduction of innovation in different spheres of the organization’s activities, we can come to the conclusion that increase in the enterprise’s innovation activities allows to ensure the anti-crisis activity of the entire organization.

Keywords

• innovations
• innovation activities
• crisis
• anti-crisis management
• organization
• management