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Creating a culture of innovation in the workplace
Why is a culture of innovation important?
• You’ll make your customers happy
• You can reduce waste by building more successful products
• You’ll increase employee morale
Approaches we’ll look at to foster a culture of innovation
• Defining Innovation
• Cultural Attitude
• People
• Physical Space
• Tools
Why does your business want to “innovate”?
• To build more, faster?
• To launch new features?
• To explore new opportunities, new revenue streams?
• To fend off competition?
• To pivot the business?
Present people with a problem to solve, not a solution to implement
Cultural Attitude
Start conversations with “What if?”
Encourage those that say “I have a crazy idea”
Don’t wait for perfection. It never comes.
Invite people to innovate – don’t force it
Resist project management techniques
Embrace failure
Church of FAIL
People
Further reading
At the core of a culture of innovation is the team
Innovation is not a solo sport – it’s a team game
Involve all facets of the business
Give permission for others to innovate outside of your sphere of influence
What makes a successful innovative team?
Co-located Self Sufficient Dedicated
People think roadmaps looks like this“When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.” – Simon Sinek (TEDx)
Physical Space
Further reading
Hot Desk Wednesday
Roadmap death!
People think roadmaps looks like this
“You need to set up and organize so that you can do as many experiments per unit of time as possible.” – Jeff Bezos, Amazon
Tools
How people think roadmaps look…
The reality…
Pick the ones that let you experiment best
Things to avoid
SilosNo colloborationLarge teams
ANTI Collaboration
Avoid freezing upwhen overwhelmed
In Summary
1. Develop a definition that’s right for your business
2. Build out a team with the license to innovate
3. Create a physical space that empowers them
4. Pick the right tools that work for you
5. Iterate and reflect (often)
Innovation lessons from Pixarhttp://www.mckinsey.com/insights/innovation/innovation_lessons_from_pixar_an_interview_with_oscar-winning_director_brad_bird
How Pixar fosters collective creativityhttps://hbr.org/2008/09/how-pixar-fosters-collective-creativity
Hello Innovation – 9 ways Pixar cultivates creative culturehttp://www.helloinnovation.com/blog/9-ways-pixar-cultivates-creative-culture-can/
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