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Making Innovation HappenCommunity Leadership, Innovation and Capacity
Stephen Murgatroyd, PhD FRSA FBPsSThe Innovation Expedition Inc.
Six “Headwinds” Requiring You To Be Innovative
• Demographic changes• Economic changes – productivity,
competitiveness and innovation• Energy, Environment and Sustainability changes• Technology changes• Shifts in the balance of power• Identity changes – people, organizations,
community
The Key Responses to These Headwinds
• Focus and alignment within a company• Community support for business, innovation
and productivity• Collaboration within and between firms,
especially those working in the same sector• Leadership at all levels• Knowledge, learning and education
INNOVATION
“I’ll be happy to give you innovative thinking. What are the guidelines?”
Sometimes Innovation is Risky…
Sometimes Innovation is at a Basic Level
Sometimes Innovations are Just Weird…
Sometimes Innovations are Disruptive
Most Innovations are Adopt-AdaptUses standard construction methods from concrete construction practices• Prefabricated sections• Set up ready for electrical and plumbing
Project management practices to ensure on-time construction = 1 floor per week, 9 floors = 10 weeks• Inspection a floor at a time• 1 week for foundations + 9 weeks building
Rapid construction, guaranteed price and delivery
Sometimes New Ideas Fall on Deaf Ears
Sometimes Innovators Are Ahead of the Game
Yet We Know Innovation is Key to Our Future
Level 3: Systems Shift (5%)
System wide change enablingSignificant
Performance gains
Level 2: Changing A System Element (28%)
One component of a system is changed with impacts on the system as a whole
Level 1: Tweaking and Continuous Improvement (61%)
No real innovation, just good work to make things better, cheaper, faster
Level 4: Disruptive Innovation (6%)Game changing
innovation
4 Kinds of Innovation
Adoption Takes Time
As a Process, Innovation is “Messy”
Ideation• Brainstorm• Green Hat Thinking• First cut invention• Inspired Conversations
Play and Test
• Deeper research• Prototype / pilot• Scouting Parties
Evaluate &
Sell
• Show triple bottom line returns on capital
• Show performance gains
• Persuade, sell, cajole
Build
• Full development cycle
• Full scale implementation
At A Minimum, It Involves
Mind Set Shifts Risk Diligence Challenge Teamwork
Seeing with
Different Lenses
LEADERSHIP
Innovation Definitely Involves Leadership Challenges
– Think outside the box– Challenge conventional processes– Build trusting relationships– Inspire shared vision among their colleagues– Model the way for others – Enable others to take action– Encourage the practice of innovation, of disciplined follow-
up and the measurement of outcomes– Exhibit grace under pressure– Recognize the sense in having a sense of humour
Rethinking...
• Collaboration – the DNA on the knowledge economy – think co-opetition
• People, learning and engagement• Customers as sources for new ideas• Supply chains as the basis for smart thinking• Challenge and stretch goals• Community and the engagement of society in
your work – your social license..
To Make Innovation Happen, You Need.. Systematic and Effective Imagineering
COMMUNITY
Communities Can Support Innovation
• Education – innovation index for schools, problem based learning and challenge the community to solve community problems
• Imagination Conversations – how can community organizations imagine together a different future?
• Leadership – focus on two themes – productivity and waste – and see what you can do in the community...
• Knowledge – sharing best practices, new ideas and fostering collaboration
THE THREE BIG MESSAGES
The Three Big Messages
• “The future isn’t what it used to be...”• “You cant get to where you want to be
by doing what you have always done, expecting different results...”
• “An investment in knowledge pays the best results”