Employees Have the Best Ideas

Dene Rossouw

Only 3% of organizationsin North America have programs for harnessing employee ideas

3%

We are ignoring our best

Resources

Poor innovation leaves Canadian business vulnerable to competitors and to changing economic conditions

Top 10 Barriers To Competitiveness – Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Feb, 2012

We are ignoring our best

Resources

Employees have

Great IdeasJust one breakthrough idea can revolutionize your organization

What is it

Costing you?What is it costing you if you don’t leverage the ideas of your employees?

Employee ideas can radically increase value and profitability

Leveraging

Employee Ideas

Employee ideas can radically reduce costs and improve efficiencies

Leveraging

Employee Ideas

If your organization does not leverage your employees' ideas, what will things be like 2 years from now?

Leveraging

Employee Ideas

If your organization had done something about it 2 years ago, what would be different now?

Leveraging

Employee Ideas

How do I choose the right

Employees?

How do I choose the right

Employees?Choose employees who drive you nuts

How do I choose the right

Employees?Choose employees who are square pegs in round holes – the oddballs

How do I choose the right

Employees?Choose employees who are thought-leaders, passionate and energized about possibilities

How do I choose the right

Employees?Choose employees who don’t fit into a nicely crafted job description

Leveraging

Employee IdeasThe 7 Stages of Innovation is our process that will leverage your employee ideas and bring them to life

1° DirectiveThe mandate for innovation from the SLT and selecting the Innovation Sponsor

2° DefineSetting innovation boundaries, budget, plan and areas of focus

3° DialogueBuilding momentum and identifying Innovation Champions

4° DesignThe 1-2 day incubator workshop for rapid idea proofing and pitching

5° DecideNew venture proposals are pitched to decision-makers

6° DevelopInnovation Champions and teams work on developing the selected ideas

7° DeliverThe release of the solutions to market and stakeholders

Capitalize on ideas at low cost

Return On Ideas

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New processes and products

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Distinctive value to stakeholders

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Improved efficiencies, profitability

Return On Ideas

BenefitsTo the organization

Increased competitive advantage

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Return On Ideas

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Employees feel valued – their ideascontribute to the future of theorganization

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Return On Ideas

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Employees learn new skills of persuasion, influencing, teambuilding, project management

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Return On Ideas

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Employees gain new strategic and operational knowledge and a sense of purpose

Return On Ideas

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Return On Ideas

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Do you have a sense of

Urgency?Do you need to improve your strategic fitness?

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Dene Rossouw

Chief Imagineer