This document discusses practical ideas for enhancing innovative behavior. It promotes observing the world for new ideas, questioning with passion for inquiry, networking to build ideas with a diverse network, associative thinking to connect disparate ideas, and experimenting by trying, testing, and taking things apart. Specific tips are provided for each area, such as observing firsthand, asking disruptive questions, expanding one's network diversity, taking on different perspectives, and starting with small experiments. The overall message is that innovation requires action and sharing ideas with others.

3. Fostering Innovation
Practical ideas to enhance innovative behavior

4. Our innovation began in a garage

5. Fulfilling an
Unmet Medical
Need

6. Applying existing ideas in
new ways to generate value
and satisfy needs

7. You can
learn to
innovate!

8. Observing: Watch the world for new ideas
Questioning: Passion for inquiry
Networking: Build ideas with a diverse network
Associative thinking: Connect disparate ideas
Experimenting: Try, test, take apart

9. Observation

10. Goals: Find needs/problems, develop empathy
Observe yourself, companies, technology,
customers, services
Observation

11. Observation
Innovation

12. Observation: Take-Away Tips
Go through a process – experience firsthand
Look away from the action
Observe with all your senses

13. Questioning

14. Cross through all nine dots by drawing no
more than four straight lines
(without lifting the pencil from the paper)

15. What is the real problem / most important?
What caused you to develop/suggest this?
Why and Why Not: 5 Whys
What if we did the opposite?
Ask Disruptive Questions

16. Question-storm or Assumption-storm

17. Questioning: Take-Away Tips
Add or remove a constraint
Track your question to answer ratio
Read “The Art of Powerful Questions”
Find a favorite

18. Networking

19. Collecting ideas, not business cards
Connecting with others, not selling to others
Building bridges to diverse people and ideas
Idea Networking is about Discovery

20. Collaborating with
Physicians to Develop
Life-Changing
Therapies

21. Collaboration
is
KEY!

22. Open Innovation

23. Networking: Take-Away Tips
Expand the diversity of your network
Start a mealtime networking plan
Read or listen to something you normally wouldn’t

24. Associating

25. Creativity is
connecting
things
- Steve Jobs

27. Associating: Take-Away Tips
Take on a different persona
Practice catalytic innovative behaviors

28. Experimenting

29. Try It
Test It
Take it Apart

30. What’s the most time-consuming
process in your organization?
How could you reduce that by half?

31. Experimenting: Take-Away Tips
Start small
Disassemble a process
Pilot often

32. Observing: Watch the world for new ideas.
Questioning: Passion for inquiry.
Networking: Build ideas with a diverse network
Associative thinking: Connect disparate ideas
Experimenting: Try, test, take apart

33. Oh, there’s one more
little thing…

34. Innovation
won’t happen
without
ACTION

35. What will
you do to
innovate?

36. Improving
Another Life
Every 4
Seconds

37. Observing: Watch the world for new ideas.
Questioning: Passion for inquiry.
Networking: Build ideas with a diverse network
Associative thinking: Connect disparate ideas
Experimenting: Try, test, take apart

38. Now tell
your
neighbor!

39. Questions?