inspiration, innovation and impact series part 1
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Innovation Series Nicola Millson
6heads www.6-heads.com
April 2012
Impact, Inspiration, Innovation
…create new and better
leaders
organisations
planet
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Impact, Inspiration, Innovation
• What is the most innovative thing you have seen /done recently?
• What is the biggest problem you'd like to solve or opportunity you'd like to exploit? Frame this as "I wish my organisation could..."
• What are the barriers stopping you from making this wish come true?
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Agenda: Impact, Inspiration, Innovation
A six part series:
1. Frame the series: Understand
2. Set the scene: Prepare
3. Think like Yunnus: Develop the challenge
4. Do “20/40” exercises: Build capability
5. Explore new options: Create new ideas
6. Act: Develop a plan
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1. Understand: Unnovation
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1. Understand: Innovation
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“…new and creating value for society”
1. Understand: Innovation
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“…new and creating value for society”
1. Understand: Why?
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1. Understand: Why?
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1. Understand: Why?
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1. Understand: Why now?
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1. Understand: Why me?
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Agenda: Impact, Inspiration, Innovation
A six part series:
1. Frame the series: Understand
2. Set the scene: Prepare
3. Think like Yunnus: Develop the challenge
4. Do “20/40” exercises: Build capability
5. Explore new options: Create new ideas
6. Act: Develop a plan
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2. Prepare: Role
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“Leaders don’t just make products and decisions, leaders make meaning”
2. Prepare: Mindset
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2. Prepare: Role
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Invite others
4. Prepare: Constraints
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“innovate inside the
box”
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5. Prepare: Scale
Scale
Product Process System
Incremental
Transformational
2.
3. 1.
5. 4.
Agenda: Impact, Inspiration, Innovation
A six part series:
1. Frame the series: Understand
2. Set the scene: Prepare
3. Think like Yunnus: Develop the challenge
4. Do “20/40” exercises: Build capability
5. Explore new options: Create new ideas
6. Act: Develop a plan
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Develop the challenge: What made them special?
Apple iPod Grameen
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Develop the challenge: Stretch
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What do you want to do?
“You will only answer the problem you are trying to solve”
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I wish:
Develop the challenge: 5 Why’s
Will provide you with fresh perspective on the problem and identify if you are not addressing a root cause:
• Why?
• Why?
• Why?
• Why?
• Why?
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Develop the challenge: Stretch example
I WISH “We had more revenue”
Why?: We can do more projects
Why?: Our current projects aren't bringing in enough revenue
Why? They aren't having the impact we expected
Why? NGO’s aren’t responding to them
Why?: They don’t think they are useful
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Develop the challenge: Stretch example
I WISH “We had more revenue”
Is the real challenge how to better meet the needs of NGO’s?
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State your fresh challenge
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Develop the challenge: Other ways to stretch your challenge
Re-expression
• Use alternative words
• Use different senses
• Use someone else’s perspective
Related worlds
• Other organisations
• Other people with related expertise
• Science, history, nature
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Revolution
Redefine your assumptions:
• Exaggerate
• Reverse
• Oppose
• Reduce
Random Links
• Pick a random item. How is your problem like this item?
Develop the challenge: Other ways to stretch your challenge
Re-expression
• Use alternative words
• Use different senses
• Use someone else’s perspective
Related worlds
• Other organisations
• Other people with related expertise
• Science, history, nature
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Revolution
Redefine your assumptions:
• Exaggerate
• Reverse • Oppose
• Reduce
Random Links
• Pick a random item. How is your problem like this item?
“I wish we had NO revenue”
I WISH “We had more revenue”
Develop the challenge: Other ways to stretch your challenge
Re-expression
• Use alternative words
• Use different senses
• Use someone else’s perspective
Related worlds
• Other organisations
• Other people with related expertise
• Science, history, nature
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Revolution
Redefine your assumptions:
• Exaggerate
• Reverse
• Oppose
• Reduce
Random Links
• Pick a random item. How is your problem like this item?
The very rich banker
I WISH “We had more revenue”
State your fresh challenge
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Agenda: Impact, Inspiration, Innovation
A six part series:
1. Frame the series: Understand
2. Set the scene: Prepare
3. Think like Yunnus: Develop the challenge
4. Do “20/40” exercises: Build capability
5. Explore new options: Create new ideas
6. Act: Develop a plan
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Preparation: Personal Experiments in 20/40 Vision
Daily to do -
• It would be cool if…?
• I am inspired by…?
• A trend I spotted today…?
• New route I’ve taken to work/coffee machine/etc….?
• 1 thing said/done that I don’t agree with…?
• A new things I did that aren’t meant for me…. E.g. visit games arcade, get a facial, drive a truck…
• Learn something new: go to a lecture/download one on a topic you’ve never heard of…
• Talk to someone random (for at least 10mins)
• Map someone else doing something e.g. shop
• Find a crazy idea
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Preparation: Organisational Experiments in 20/40 Vision
To do 1. Have lunch with someone
you don’t know 2. Take your team out… for a
walk, for shopping, for a bus ride, for a tourist visit, for a child experience
3. Play music first thing 4. Have a children's problem-
solver competition 5. Re-write your job
description as an explorer, astronaut or artist
To reflect
• How could I use this insight to think differently about my organisation?
• What would this mean for my customers?
• New challenge?
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“The greatest danger for all of us is not that our aim is
too high and we miss it
but that our aim is too low and we reach it”
Michelangelo
Next Steps Q&A
• Contacts and follow-ups…
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