The Innovation Journey

Rod Willmott

Wzard Innovation

@rwbdjr

www.wzard.co.uk

Some learnings from a long exposure to corporate innovation

The Innovation Journey

Rod Willmott

Wzard Innovation

@rwbdjr

www.wzard.co.uk

Some learnings from a long exposure to corporate innovation

So.. you want to join the race to innovate? – You might find few hurdles

along the way

Hurdle 1: Getting Started

Who is this Innovator?

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis

Semmelweis proposed the practice of washing hands with chlorinated lime solutions in 1847

Hurdle 2: Finding the right 1st target

Some of the things we learnt in

our 4 year ‘Fast Track’ Journey

Start Small

You get what you measure

Hurdle 3: Building something despite IT

Finding the rightpartner tohelp helps

Collaborating with start-ups without

killing the idea

One & Done

Land & Expand

Test & Invest

Aristotle & Classification

Hurdle 4: Getting Beyond the experiment

A Virus?

Do Organisations treat innovation like a virus?

Many barriers in the World have fallen but

we successfully maintain some in corporate culture

structures can be hard to change once

established

Finally