The document outlines a workshop led by AJ Kennedy on designing a process for continuous innovation, emphasizing the importance of frequent ideation among employees to drive business value. It highlights that distributed ideation leads to a more diverse and valuable pool of ideas, which organizations can leverage for incremental and breakthrough improvements. The workshop also discusses a framework for implementing continuous innovation and encourages involvement across various sectors.

1. Continuous Innovation
Workshop
Presented by
AJ Kennedy
July, 2017

2. Demonstrate how to design a process for Continuous Innovation.
Today’s Focus
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Theory 80% Workshop
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4. Unique Perspectives About Innovation in the Business World
The more frequently employees ideate, the more innovations arise.
Forward-thinking business leaders are tapping the collective intelligence of their employee, partner, and
customer crowds, and driving ideation as a daily habit throughout their businesses.
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Ideating well means ideating with everyone.
More and more organizations understand that distributed ideation unlocks more diverse ideas, which in turn
dramatically increases the number of valuable ideas uncovered.
High-frequency ideation drives business value.
Over time, frequent ideation becomes core to how companies “develop better products and services” and
“reduce cost and waste/ inefficiencies” or both.

5. Primary Types of Innovation Activities on Spigit
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6. Spigit Continuous Innovation
A continuous process of collaborative innovation to solve problems and
address opportunities with employees. These efforts can surface
"incremental" improvements or new "breakthrough" improvements” to deliver
value over time.
In Spigit, commonly referred to as ‘Always On’
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1. Reduce churn and increase customer satisfaction
2. Speed up cycle time for production facilities
3. Cut spend and improve energy efficiency
4. Streamline IT, maximize uptime
5. Remove unnecessary processes and protocols
Continuous Innovation TOPICS USED BY LEADERS:
Spigit is used by leaders across healthcare,
manufacturing, finance, and telecom sectors…

8. Build a process with your
employees for continuous
innovation.

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Process Framework
PURPOSE TIME RESOURCES
PROCESS
ENGAGEMENT PLAN
GOVERNANCE
Employees
Culture

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21. Everyday Process Innovation
What new process enhancements
would improve our ability to create
value and differentiate ourselves in
the marketplace?
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Expert Review
Rank Ideas 1(low) – 5(High) = X
Criteria
1. Idea offers a significant advantage over the current approach.
2. Cost of adopting the idea would be less than the value.
3. Idea requires minimal learning on behalf of users to implement.
4. Idea is easy to try or trial. Requires minimal upfront commitment.
5. Benefits from trying the idea would be highly visible.
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26. Questions?

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What did we learn about designing a process for
Continuous Innovation?

28. Thank you
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AJ Kennedy
akennedy@spigit.com
Twitter: @ajkeleven
LinkedIn: AJ Kennedy
www.spigit.com