This is how we go about creating better performing brand systems. It is how we take brand thinking and turn it into real world practical application and performance for your business
All text (except our introduction and commentary) taken word-for-word from the 10 Faces of Innovation summary on IDEO's website dedicated to the book by Tom Kelly. http://www.tenfacesofinnovation.com/ We bought and loved the book and encourage you to do the same.
Creativity PowerPoint PPT Content Modern SampleAndrew Schwartz
159 slides include: understanding creativity as a human skill using mini systems and processes, the benefits of creativity, left and right brain thinking, blocks to creativity, organizational success through creativity, over techniques, methods, examples and exercises. The definition of creativity, how creative mind works, the process of creativity, creative people and their qualities. You will discover connection between creativity and organizational success and ways to increase your personal creativity, unique information about fostering organizational creativity, management and group creativity as well as creativity and the future plus much more.
pgdmtopics.blogspot.com
It is hard to think of a human ability that has had a more profoundly positive effect on the world than creativity. This one human capacity has generated so much. It is individual and universal, intellectual as well as artful, born of inspiration and made with determination.
This is how we go about creating better performing brand systems. It is how we take brand thinking and turn it into real world practical application and performance for your business
All text (except our introduction and commentary) taken word-for-word from the 10 Faces of Innovation summary on IDEO's website dedicated to the book by Tom Kelly. http://www.tenfacesofinnovation.com/ We bought and loved the book and encourage you to do the same.
Creativity PowerPoint PPT Content Modern SampleAndrew Schwartz
159 slides include: understanding creativity as a human skill using mini systems and processes, the benefits of creativity, left and right brain thinking, blocks to creativity, organizational success through creativity, over techniques, methods, examples and exercises. The definition of creativity, how creative mind works, the process of creativity, creative people and their qualities. You will discover connection between creativity and organizational success and ways to increase your personal creativity, unique information about fostering organizational creativity, management and group creativity as well as creativity and the future plus much more.
pgdmtopics.blogspot.com
It is hard to think of a human ability that has had a more profoundly positive effect on the world than creativity. This one human capacity has generated so much. It is individual and universal, intellectual as well as artful, born of inspiration and made with determination.
In February I spent one week with 25 students from different disciplines at European institute of Design in Rome, (IED Rome University). Every year the university holds the event called IED Factory where a cross-pollination of skills and backgrounds mingle to boost creativity, diversity and collaboration. Twelve workshops take place and the students are bound to deliver a final project after an intense week of activities. I designed the workshop to introduce the Design Thinking approach and to instill creative confidence. Visual Communication, Fashion Designers, Fashion Stylist, Photography, Animation, Jewellery Design are the different areas where the participants came from.
The following are my findings.
What’s the problem? Create trust and serendipity.
At the outset my approach was to build up the atmosphere of one spine of 25 designers. In the first two sessions I tried to instill the design thinking skill set: observations, empathy, trust and collaboration. Then I set up 5 teams and showed them three challenges in Sustainability, Transport and Health & Food.
A culture of innovation.
As soon as the participants begun to perceive the sense of purpose, the edge of ‘Familiar vs Unfamiliar’ using storytelling, the Design Thinking methodology is a toolkit that implies a culture of risk, trust and failure. It creates scenarios of use, provokes and inspires alternatives.
The projects…? No, it’s the path, it's the discovery.
People are creative. Yes, they are indeed. In few days they went through ‘discover, ideation and prototype’ phases delivering an app and website for ‘Health & Food’, two ‘Educational rubbish bin’ for Sustainability, a thematic bus. Well, they did not find any investors. They adopted the mindset to show themselves things to explore, test and learn. The video below shows an example.
From the idea of design object to think instead designing behaviours.
First I needed to understand why I was going to do the workshop and what was the gap I could support as facilitator. The plan was to create contents, activities and my approach based on a design for knowledge, skills and motivation. So I focused on those scenarios rather than a design for habits, communication and environment.
Designers design their way through the problem
Once the participants start learning by doing, they also trust the process and forge their own way to go through. Eventually the thorny issues such as get people talking in the streets, reframe questions and create a storyboard helped them to see new opportunities. Then they transformed data into actionable ideas. However, as facilitator you are a designer as well. Therefore you also design your way through the problem with them.
Lesson Learnt
By focusing on creating a challenging context you might be able to offset the pressure to provide all the interactions; let the learners interact with each other. In terms of content, it is less than you think it is.
How do we come up with new ideas? What does it mean for something to be new? My talk at Swiss StartUp Camp 2009 in Basel focused on the way in which we come up with new ideas, and how to organize those ideas before implementing projects.
The Principles of Creativity and InnovationMal Mai
Project short description
Review any books/magazines/articles/case study/news/ etc. related to Creativity and Innovation (CNI). Prepare a report which must include The Principles of CNI, Creativity in Problem Solving, Examples and Application of CNI, Recent/latest theory development of CNI, etc. You are also encouraged to propose new knowledge/theory of CNI if any.
This is about creativity management, need for more innovation in business and the web2.0 incorporating much of innovative concepts. much more information and webinks in the slide notes when downloaded
This book on “Management Of Creativity” is a sincere effort by the HR students of the Rajadhani Business School, purely based on KTU Syllabus of T6 HR paper named Management of Creativity. The Book details about Creativity styles, Creativity in problem solving, Lateral thinking, Ideation, TRIZ, Six thinking hats, Decision and Evaluation.
The purpose is to explore the opportunity to embed the Human‐Centred Design in business models culture. It aims to embody nimble business mind-‐sets to equip the organizations with the understanding of customer needs as a real competitive advantage.
Design Thinking creates a high quality bond of engagement and loyalty between the company and employees. The open‐minded discovery process in the Design Thinking can be a strategic landscape where learning environment and innovation thrive.
Understanding the customer through the use of empathy and to nourish the co‐creation process are the lenses to create a design-‐driven culture. This also implies a learning driven culture with the ability to reframe business challenges to solve customers’ problems.
A look at creativity styles, characteristics, and research that set the stage for creativity to happen, weaving in references to other information sources.
How do we innovate ourselves? This year's buzz term is clearly "innovation" - having brutally pushed "disruption" of its soapbox. Whilst companies are grappling with what this means on a practical and process level, does innovation begin at home?
My presentation discussing personal innovation at the inaugural event for Sydney's Experience Society
Most people are born creative. As children, we revel in imaginary play, ask outlandish questions, draw blobs and call them dinosaurs. But over time, because of socialization and formal education, a lot of us start to stifle those impulses. We learn to be warier of judgment, more cautious, more analytical. The world seems to divide into “creatives” and “noncreatives,” and too many people consciously or unconsciously resign themselves to the latter category.
And yet we know that creativity is essential to success in any discipline or industry. According to a recent IBM survey of chief executives around the world, it’s the most sought-after trait in leaders today. No one can deny that creative thinking has enabled the rise and continued success of countless companies, from start-ups like Facebook and Google to stalwarts like Procter & Gamble and General Electric.
In this presentation you will discover why you lost your creative confidence—the natural ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out, and how to restore it back.
In February I spent one week with 25 students from different disciplines at European institute of Design in Rome, (IED Rome University). Every year the university holds the event called IED Factory where a cross-pollination of skills and backgrounds mingle to boost creativity, diversity and collaboration. Twelve workshops take place and the students are bound to deliver a final project after an intense week of activities. I designed the workshop to introduce the Design Thinking approach and to instill creative confidence. Visual Communication, Fashion Designers, Fashion Stylist, Photography, Animation, Jewellery Design are the different areas where the participants came from.
The following are my findings.
What’s the problem? Create trust and serendipity.
At the outset my approach was to build up the atmosphere of one spine of 25 designers. In the first two sessions I tried to instill the design thinking skill set: observations, empathy, trust and collaboration. Then I set up 5 teams and showed them three challenges in Sustainability, Transport and Health & Food.
A culture of innovation.
As soon as the participants begun to perceive the sense of purpose, the edge of ‘Familiar vs Unfamiliar’ using storytelling, the Design Thinking methodology is a toolkit that implies a culture of risk, trust and failure. It creates scenarios of use, provokes and inspires alternatives.
The projects…? No, it’s the path, it's the discovery.
People are creative. Yes, they are indeed. In few days they went through ‘discover, ideation and prototype’ phases delivering an app and website for ‘Health & Food’, two ‘Educational rubbish bin’ for Sustainability, a thematic bus. Well, they did not find any investors. They adopted the mindset to show themselves things to explore, test and learn. The video below shows an example.
From the idea of design object to think instead designing behaviours.
First I needed to understand why I was going to do the workshop and what was the gap I could support as facilitator. The plan was to create contents, activities and my approach based on a design for knowledge, skills and motivation. So I focused on those scenarios rather than a design for habits, communication and environment.
Designers design their way through the problem
Once the participants start learning by doing, they also trust the process and forge their own way to go through. Eventually the thorny issues such as get people talking in the streets, reframe questions and create a storyboard helped them to see new opportunities. Then they transformed data into actionable ideas. However, as facilitator you are a designer as well. Therefore you also design your way through the problem with them.
Lesson Learnt
By focusing on creating a challenging context you might be able to offset the pressure to provide all the interactions; let the learners interact with each other. In terms of content, it is less than you think it is.
How do we come up with new ideas? What does it mean for something to be new? My talk at Swiss StartUp Camp 2009 in Basel focused on the way in which we come up with new ideas, and how to organize those ideas before implementing projects.
The Principles of Creativity and InnovationMal Mai
Project short description
Review any books/magazines/articles/case study/news/ etc. related to Creativity and Innovation (CNI). Prepare a report which must include The Principles of CNI, Creativity in Problem Solving, Examples and Application of CNI, Recent/latest theory development of CNI, etc. You are also encouraged to propose new knowledge/theory of CNI if any.
This is about creativity management, need for more innovation in business and the web2.0 incorporating much of innovative concepts. much more information and webinks in the slide notes when downloaded
This book on “Management Of Creativity” is a sincere effort by the HR students of the Rajadhani Business School, purely based on KTU Syllabus of T6 HR paper named Management of Creativity. The Book details about Creativity styles, Creativity in problem solving, Lateral thinking, Ideation, TRIZ, Six thinking hats, Decision and Evaluation.
The purpose is to explore the opportunity to embed the Human‐Centred Design in business models culture. It aims to embody nimble business mind-‐sets to equip the organizations with the understanding of customer needs as a real competitive advantage.
Design Thinking creates a high quality bond of engagement and loyalty between the company and employees. The open‐minded discovery process in the Design Thinking can be a strategic landscape where learning environment and innovation thrive.
Understanding the customer through the use of empathy and to nourish the co‐creation process are the lenses to create a design-‐driven culture. This also implies a learning driven culture with the ability to reframe business challenges to solve customers’ problems.
A look at creativity styles, characteristics, and research that set the stage for creativity to happen, weaving in references to other information sources.
How do we innovate ourselves? This year's buzz term is clearly "innovation" - having brutally pushed "disruption" of its soapbox. Whilst companies are grappling with what this means on a practical and process level, does innovation begin at home?
My presentation discussing personal innovation at the inaugural event for Sydney's Experience Society
Most people are born creative. As children, we revel in imaginary play, ask outlandish questions, draw blobs and call them dinosaurs. But over time, because of socialization and formal education, a lot of us start to stifle those impulses. We learn to be warier of judgment, more cautious, more analytical. The world seems to divide into “creatives” and “noncreatives,” and too many people consciously or unconsciously resign themselves to the latter category.
And yet we know that creativity is essential to success in any discipline or industry. According to a recent IBM survey of chief executives around the world, it’s the most sought-after trait in leaders today. No one can deny that creative thinking has enabled the rise and continued success of countless companies, from start-ups like Facebook and Google to stalwarts like Procter & Gamble and General Electric.
In this presentation you will discover why you lost your creative confidence—the natural ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out, and how to restore it back.
The presentation enumerates creation of value through technology calling technology an innovation. It further throws a light on innovation in various fields such as science, technology etc. and then deals with the technolgoy missing in legal system. It explains how technology can create value in legal system with the help of examples.
Technology & Innovation Management models and business diagrams for professional presentations.
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your visual business knowledge
Strategic Management models and diagrams for professional business presentation.
More downloadable business diagrams on
http://www.drawpack.com
your visual business knowledge
Technology & Innovation Management models and business diagrams for professional presentations.
More business diagrams to download on
http://www.drawpack.com
your visual business knowledge
Advertising agencies are obsessed with innovation. They also have one of the most unique sets of creative talent of any industry. Yet the creative department is the most suspicious of "innovation" of any group at the agency. Could it be that actually Creative Directors hold the keys to converting ad agencies into what so many desire: innovation partners to clients?
(special thanks to @seelydiaplay for presentation design help)
Design Thinking for startups - How to find and validate your startup idea ?Frédéric Ooms
Slides from the class at Solvay Brussels School. How to identify and validate your startup idea. Intro to the Design Thinking approach, Business Model Canvas and Customer Development
Mr D Shivakumar has summarised my book into Power Point Charts. He is not running me out of business, rather his summary will stimulate your interest to read the whole book! Enjoy the summary
Challenging innovation myths is the first step to adopting a wider perspective that will allow anyone in your organization to innovate. This fast-paced, multi-modal experience will engage you to learn more about innovation thinking, while exploring assumptions, and building innovation strategies and synergy to achieve breakthrough results. Together we will bust FIVE common innovation myths and open the door to greater opportunity!
Innovation Myth Buster at Target Innovaiton Network Nov 2009guestb97369f
Introduction to Innovation for Target's Innovation Network.
Challenging innovation myths is the first step to adopting a wider perspective that will allow anyone in your organization to innovate. This fast-paced, multi-modal experience will engage you to learn more about innovation thinking, while exploring assumptions, and building innovation strategies and synergy to achieve breakthrough results. Together we will bust FIVE common innovation myths and open the door to greater opportunity!
We are proud to announce our twenty-sixth Innovation Excellence Weekly for Slideshare. Inside you'll find ten of the best innovation-related articles from the past week on Innovation Excellence - the world's most popular innovation web site and home to 5,000+ innovation-related articles.
“Innovation Blueprints is a free magazine to help you innovate by decoding and sharing the innovation tools & processes that the worlds leading innovators use”
In the Innovation Blueprints magazine you'll discover how a ‘New Breed’ of Organisations are using the latest innovation breakthroughs to innovate across every aspect of their business – from new products, marketing and sales to customer service and financial processes.
Innovation Blueprints is a free magazine to help you innovate by decoding and sharing the innovation tools & processes that the worlds leading innovators use.
In the Innovation Blueprints magazine you'll discover how a ‘New Breed’ of Organisations are using the latest innovation breakthroughs to innovate across every aspect of their business – from new products, marketing and sales to customer service and financial processes.
Innovation Blueprints is published by www.InnovationBlueprint.com.au
Sometimes it seems that nearly every large company on the planet is establishing some sort of innovation presence in Silicon Valley – be it a full-blown center, lab or a fledgling outpost. Tech and non-tech companies are here. They’re committing time, dollars and talent in the hope of leveraging
the concentrated startup and academic ecosystems to some varied definitions of success. They’re betting that being close to the epicenter of others’ ideas and success automatically conveys a benefit.
That’s dangerous and lazy thinking.
What’s the rush and what does an innovation presence really contribute to the business and the marketplace as a whole? Is all of the recent frenzied activity the result of some kind of corporate FOMO (“fear of missing out”) around the next big thing? Or is there really something special and unpredictable that comes out of a well-curated and geographically well- situated set of relationships,talent and ideas?
It’s not easy to be ‘innovative,’ and we could quickly drift into the territory of clichéd term if we are not careful.
So what does innovation mean today? Can you create a culture and learn the skills that can serve as the spark and kindling for the pursuit of something that really matters? Or is it ever so easy to commit one of the transgressions of innovation and either think too far out into the future without any purpose, or merely get involved in projects of short-term incremental improvement?
Learn the 5 Discovery Skills of Out-Performing Innovators
Based on the innovator’s DNA study by Christensen et al
Presented by Linda Naiman Founder, Creativity at Work.com
For ProductCamp, Vancouver 2013
I presented a short talk on innovation and building breakthrough ideas at in5, Innovation Centre (part of Dubai Internet City). The event was part of UAE Innovation Week program #UAE_Innovates. My session covered a number of lessons and insights from my experience on how to think in an innovative way.
You can read more about the program and watch the talks here: www.tecomgroup.ae/innovates/
60 Minute Brand Strategist: Extended and updated hard cover NOW available.Idris Mootee
This book includes the very latest thinking on branding and brand strategy. It has been published in different many languages and use by top global brands to train their brand managers. New updated hard cover version is not available from Amazon May 2013
Pls view in full screen mode. Published in more than 5 languages.
This is the second session (Sep 8) of our Free Open Advanced Branding Masterclass at www.mootee.typepad.com. Pls rememebr no books are needed. We will forward additional reading material for all registered participants.
This is the first session (Sep 4) of our Free Open Advanced Branding Masterclass at www.mootee.typepad.com. Pls rememebr no books are needed. We will forward additional reading material for all registered participants.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
De-mystifying Zero to One: Design Informed Techniques for Greenfield Innovati...
10 Lessons of Innovation - Idris Mootee Keynote
1. 10 Lessons of Innovation
Experience from the field.
Idris Mootee
Author, Speaker and New Venture Strategy Advisor
SVP Strategy and Innovation Blast Radius Inc.
www.mootee.typepad.com
A Presentation at Global Innovation Forum March 2007
2. Innovation is like Ping Pong
“I think Innovation is like Ping Pong
where ideas are often bounced back
and forth and the most interesting
games were those played by
opponents with totally different training
and background.”
- Idris Mootee
3. Lesson from Meg Whitman (ebay)
The 5 Principles that drive Innovation at eBay:
1. Innovation is a mindset. We strive to ensure that everyone in
the company is focused on Innovation.
2. Innovation is in the DNA. We build new products with
Innovation from the inside-out.
3. Cannibalization does not scare us. We would rather cannibalize
ourselves than someone else cannibalizing us.
4. Some people are gifted disruptive innovators. We call them
quot;Baby Tigersquot;. We make it a point to nurture them and give them
the room to succeed.
Serendipity! Sometimes creative ideas simply occur
5. There can only be so much structure to creating innovations.
to the prepared mind.
We are always open to new ideas and serendipitous finds.
5. #1 A big part of Innovation is about
selling, not just inventing
6. #2 Innovation needs brainstorming and
brainstorming needs rules
IDEO rules
- Defer judgment
- Build on the ideas of others
- Only one conversation at a time
- Stay focused on the topic
- Encourage wild ideas
7. #3 Creativity is not innovation. Innovation
is built upon creative assets.
9. #5 Innovation occurs at the intersection of
previously unconnected and unrelated
planes of thought
10. #6 Innovation is like fencing. You need to
learn to fight like a gentleman
Innovation happens when people respect each other -- but fight like
crazy over their ideas. It’s for fencers only.
11. #7 Innovation requires a few grumpy
people
They are good at finding flaws and better at pulling the plug and
stopping organizations from throwing good money after bad
12. #8 Innovation requires its own visual
verbal language
A drawing and picture says a thousand words. A journal to put down
your thoughts visually will allow you to think about your ideas from
various angles, and create clarity of thought.
14. #10 Money should never come first
“People engage in radical innovation not because they get paid for
it, but because they want to.”
- Gene Meieran, Intel Fellow