Building great businesses depends on team innovation. But innovation doesn't only happen because of an innovation process or because of one particular person. Each team member can contribute with creativity, experience, knowledge for creating within the team something new, something amazing for the clients and for the company. A structured approach for coaching the team to become aware of their strengths and how they can grow and innovate together it is a good start for the companies taking the innovation road for their products. More details on: http://2013.howtoweb.co/

1. Building LongTerm Innovative

2. QuickTime™ and a
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Wikispeed

3. Innovation?
• Come up with a
new way of
solving a problem
• Applies to
product, process,
business

4. Innovation Myths
• Happens over
night
• Comes from one
innovative person
• ...who does his
thing in a corner
• It’s very visible

5. Innovation Reality
• It’s iterative
and incremental
• Comes from a team
• Includes copying
ideas
• Applies to
Products,
Processes,
Business Models

6. Me: Maria Diaconu
• Founder and CEO
Mozaic Works
• Entrepreneur,
Startups mentor
• Founder of AgileWorks
community
• Former: Software
Developer, Quality
Manager, Coach,
Trainer

7. Innovation
Ingredients
• Culture
• Innovation
Framework
• Ideas
• Experiments
• Projects

8. Culture
• Transparency
• Collaboration
• Diversity
• Safe environment
• Courage
• Focus
• Execution
excellence

9. Experiments
Projects
Ideas
Cu
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e
Innovation Framework

10. Ideas
• Ideas are free
• Collect them
• Make them visible

11. Refine ideas
Business Case
•Expected Benefits
•Estimated cost of implementation
•Risks involved

12. Culture for Ideas
DON’T:
•Laugh at others
ideas
•Attribute ideas
incorrectly
DO:
•Communicate vision,
constraints, needs

13. Experiments - Why
• Validate
hypothesis
• Learn fast
• Discover relevant
information

14. Experiments - How?
• Hypothesis
• Measurable
Criteria (when
possible)
• A Relevant
Duration

15. Experiments: Culture
• If it succeeded,
what did you learn?
• If it failed, what
did you learn?
Failure is good, as
long as you learn
from it

16. Projects: Why?
• Innovation just
for its own sake
is useless
• Increase revenue
• Decrease costs

17. Projects: How?
• Incremental &
iterative
approach
• With PM or selforganized

18. Projects: Culture
• Execution
excellence
• Stop starting,
start finishing
• Empower the team

19. Experiments
Projects
Ideas
Cu
lt
ur
e
Innovation Framework

20. Start innovating!
maria.diaconu@mozaicworks.com
Twitter: fireladyM

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