Innovation on Purpose
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What is innovation? What are the obstacles & how do you unleash the innovation within your own organisation?
Innovation on Purpose
- 1. Innovation on Purpose Graham Brown-Martin {innovation catalyst} @GrahamBM
- 4. Seeing new dots and joining them together to create new products and services
- 6. The innovation immune system
- 7. The innovation immune system is how an organisation deals with new ideas and can include strategies that kill innovation.
- 8. HR practices designed to hire for consistency offer no hope of doing something new. To ensure conformity HR can be about 鍖nding people that are like existing employeessame school, same degrees, same industry, same background Diversity
- 9. GroupThink At the heart of groupthink is the desire for harmony and conformity.
- 10. illusions of invulnerability* *Irving Janis, Psychologist
- 11. Research in Motion At the pinnacle of its implosion all eight of RIMs outside directors, including its chairman and lead director, were accountants, economists, and 鍖nance people.
- 12. Nokia, Swissair, Kodak, 掘稼姻看稼
- 13. Change is no longer linear
- 14. The Economist
- 16. Immune system antibodies fear hierarchy command & control leadership short term results cannibalising existing business over reliance on data no purpose beyond pro鍖t working in silos fixed and narrow job descriptions employee disengagement micromanagement
- 17. Johnny Appleseed
- 18. truly disruptive ideas are often seen as bad ideas when theyre 鍖rst muted. They can result in scorn as the immune system kicks in and on occasion they are even criminalised.
- 19. The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their 鍖rst appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. Aldous Huxley
- 23. Purpose inspires confidence that fuels investment, innovation and long-term performance.
- 24. EY / Harvard Business Review
- 25. An organisations purpose shouldnt be confused with its mission or, for that matter, its vision.
- 26. A mission is what it does. A vision is what it would like to be. A purpose is why it does it.
- 27. A purpose is its social value.
- 28. Ongoing success depends on the creation of 3 values; social, user, and commercial. These are the organisational chakras that, when well aligned, bring joy.
- 29. Where is your North Star?
- 30. Collaborative innovation and leadership
- 31. A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the 鍖ock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realising that all along they are being directed from behind.
- 32. The myth of the lone innovator
- 33. To maintain sustained innovation, leaders, provide vision and direction then build communities who can innovate rather than followers who simply execute.
- 34. By harnessing the collective genius of collaborators they create organisations that encourage this community to engage and problem-solve together within a common purpose.