Lucky vs. Deliberate Innovation
Not long ago, the typical organizational innovation process might have been considered “lucky.” It was
an individual creative genius shouting Eureka … and a corporate innovation hero jumping over internal
hurdles to bring new products and services to market.
While serendipitous acts of creativity and eureka moments can still drive innovation … it’s time to
deliberately foster innovation with a systematic approach that deploys the right mindset, skill-sets
and tool-sets.
Innovation leaders realize that there must be a shift from lucky innovation to predictable innovation
that is a matter of strategy and habit.
Today, companies need to think differently about the practice of innovation. It's not just about conceiving
the next breakthrough innovation but rather building an innovation portfolio that constitutes a full
spectrum of all the following nine types of innovations.
See white paper - Innovation Infrastructure: Managing change through innovative thinking
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Personal Innovation Consultant |
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Collaborative Team Innovation Consultant |
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This application empowers individual workers to build upon their personal strengths and tap into their creative talents to make performance improvements in their own jobs in these three areas:
- Incremental Innovations: Operational excellence innovations to optimize efficiency of you job.
- Cost Reduction Innovations: Reduce costs by eliminating work no longer needed in your job.
- Customer Service Innovations: Find innovative ways to provide excellent customer service.
Skills Developed: In the process of using this application you will be acquiring these innovative thinking skills: Systems Thinking, Futures Thinking, Questioning Skills, Critical Thinking, and And/Both Decision Making. |
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This application facilitates self-organizing and customer led teams to quickly experiment and develop innovations in these three areas:
- Product Extension Innovations: Add more product quality or features with minimal or no additional cost.
- Applied Technology Innovations: Utilize existing technologies in different ways to create more value.
- Next Generation Products & Services: Develop innovations that leapfrog your competition.
Skills Developed: In using this innovation Tool you will be acquiring these innovative thinking skills: Collaborative Thinking, Co-creativity and Facilitative Leadership. |
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Organizational Innovation Consultant |
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This application guides formal project teams to develop “Big Picture” innovations in these three areas:
1. Disruptive innovations: Find new technologies that supersede established business products and services.
2. Business Process Innovations: Re-design business processes to reduce costs and add customer value.
3. Sustainable Futures Innovations: Develop innovations that balance nature’s resources with consumer demand.
Skills Developed: Using this application you will be acquiring these innovative thinking skills: Network Thinking, Process Thinking, Systems and Futures Thinking. |
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Personal Innovation |
Collaborative /Team Innovation |
Organizational Innovation |
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Outcomes |
Outcomes |
Outcomes |
- Cost reductions & operational excellence
- Customer service excellence
- Personal performance excellence
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- Existing products/services extensions
- Applied technology innovations
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1. Disruptive, next generation products/services
2. Business Model/Process innovations
3. Sustainable futures innovations |
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Mindset |
Mindset |
Mindset |
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Change-adept mindset |
Trust & Respect Mindset |
Systems & Futures Mindset |
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Skillsets |
Skillsets |
Skillsets |
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1. Questioning
2. Observation
3. Critical thinking
4. Systems thinking
5. Creative thinking
6. Decision making |
1. Facilitative Leadership
2. Collaboration/communication
3. Teamwork
4. Meeting Facilitation
5. Co-creativity
6. Contextual Intelligence |
1. Futures thinking
2. Process Thinking
3. Project Management
4. Strategic Planning
5. And/both “integrative” thinking |
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Toolsets |
Toolsets |
Toolsets |
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Step 1: Ready yourself for innovation
Step 2: Operational excellence innovations.
Step 3: Customer Service excellence innovations.
Step 4: Personal Performance excellence innovations.
Step 5: Turn creative ideas into valuable innovations.
Step 6: Decide, implement and get feedback on innovations. |
Step 1: Describe innovation opportunity
Step 2: Establish a self-organizing team
Step 3: Gather data and capture team knowledge
Step 4: Develop lots of creative ideas
Step 5: Rapid experiment to find ideas that work
Step 6: Decide on innovation to implement
Step 7: Design, test and implement innovation |
Step 1: Get ready for innovation
Step 2: Define and understand your business
Step 3: Find hidden problems and opportunities
Step 4: Customer & product innovations
Step 5: Business process opportunities
Step 6: Disruptive and growth opportunities
Step 7: Generate creative & innovative ideas
Step 8: Decide where to invest innovation dollars
Step 9: Implement |