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Spotlight on Innovation
Mr. Adam Walz, M.Ed., PDI Ninth House
Mrs. Véronique-Sophie Bounaud, Axa
May 18th, 2010
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What is Innovation?
“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows
resources with a new capacity to create wealth.”
— Peter F. Drucker
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Climates for Generating Innovation Still Need Work
— Mary O’Hara Devereaux, Human Resource Planning Society, April 2006
Generating Radical Ideas
Getting Diverse
Input
Refining New Ideas
Funding Small
Experiments
Killing Losers Fast
Enough
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Generating Radical Ideas
Getting Diverse
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Refining New Ideas
Funding Small
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Killing Losers Fast
Enough
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The Need for Innovation
“What’s likely to kill you in the new economy is not somebody doing
something better, it’s somebody doing something different.”
─BusinessWeek, Michael Bloomberg
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Innovation Prevention: Organizational Hazards
Culture/Mind-Set:
“Let me just play devil’s advocate for a minute…”
Initial negativity smothers ideas and opportunities before they can develop.
Structure/Hierarchy:
“We have to get buy-in from all levels before taking any action...”
Too many stakeholders can kill greatness.
Recognition/Rewards:
“This isn’t on your list of goals; we need you to focus.”
People learn very quickly which behaviors are rewarded in any system.
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The Aztek Story
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Barriers to Innovation
What are your organization’s biggest challenges to innovating?
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Three Specific Questions
What makes innovators different from other employees?
How can we increase our workforce’s innovative capacity?
How can enterprise 2.0 tools support the people-side of innovation?
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What makes innovators different from other employees?
Innovators have developed and honed a strong set of discovery skills.
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The Innovator’s DNA
Source: Dyer, Gregerson, & Christensen, The Innovator’s DNA. HBR December, 2009
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"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the
shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes
a difference.“ —Nolan Bushnell
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How can we increase our workforce’s innovative capacity?
1. Engage the masses 2. Adopt innovation-friendly practices2. Leverage individual differences3. Align talent to your innovation cycles
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1. Engage the Masses
Source: McKinsey 2010 Global Survey. What successful transformations share
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2. Adopt Innovation-Friendly Practices
Dress code: “You must wear clothes”.
An organization that is flat, transparent, and non-hierarchical.
A company-wide rule that allows developers to devote 20% of their time to any project they choose.
“Keep the bozos out” and reward people who make a difference.
Source: Gary Hamel, “Management à la Google,” WSJ, April 26, 2006.
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ROWE – “Results-Only Work Environment”
Productivity is up an average 35% in departments that have switched
Factoid: It wasn't imposed from the top down.
Created CultureRx – subsidiary to help other companies go clockless.
Next Challenge: Implement ROWE in stores.
Source: Michelle Conlin, “Smashing the Clock,” BusinessWeek, December, 2006.
2. Adopt Innovation-Friendly Practices
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Workers set own hours, pay, and hire boss
All jobs are 6-month temporary assignments.
Employees elect the corporate leadership and initiate moves into and out of new/existing businesses.
No org charts, no five-year plans, no dress code, no titles, no offices, no administrative assistants, no HR department.
Source: Ricardo Semler, “The Seven-Day Weekend,” Portfolio Hardcover Publishing, 2004.
2. Adopt Innovation-Friendly Practices
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3. Leverage Individual Differences
High
Risk Taking
Low
HighLow Creativity
Challenger Innovator
Practicalizer
Sustainer
Modifier Synthesizer
Planner
Dreamer
The Creatrix® Model
— Creatrix®. A Richard Byrd Company, 2005.
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Know what YOU are good at.
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4. Align Talent to Your Innovation Cycles Source: Geoffrey Moore, Dealing with Darwin
Deploy
Invent Offload
Core Context
Mission Critical
Non-Mission-Critical
Manage
ManageMission-critical
ProcessesAt Scale
ExtractResources
To RepurposeFor Core
InventDifferentiated
Offering
DeployDifferentiation
At Scale
Fund next innovation
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How can enterprise 2.0 tools support the people-side of innovation?
Enterprise 2.0 tools are capable of creating greater transparency, knowledge-sharing,
community, and accountability.
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Case Study: Proctor & Gamble
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Case Study: Qualcomm
Our goal was to deliver an innovative learning program that would instantly engage participants and develop strong leadership skills. One of our challenges was to create a program that participants would find immediately valuable and that would be highly relevant for their roles.
15,500 EMPLOYEES, WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
SCALABLE, ENGAGING, BLENDED LEARNING DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR HIGH-POTENTIAL LEADERS RESPONSIBLE FOR MAJORITY OF REVENUE, AND CRITICAL TO BUSINESS SUCCESS
52% INCREASE IN SKILL LEVEL AND/OR KNOWLEDGE FOLLOWING COMPLETION OF PROGRAM; SCALED TO FIT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT NEEDS; LEVERAGED TECHNOLOGY TO CONTROL COSTS
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