The document discusses how to foster a culture of innovation in the workplace. It recommends defining innovation for your business, building an innovative team with permission to experiment, creating collaborative physical spaces, and choosing tools that enable experimentation. Key aspects include starting conversations with "what if" questions, embracing failure, giving people problems to solve rather than predefined solutions, and iterating ideas frequently through reflection and testing. The goal is to develop engaged employees and explore new opportunities through innovation.

1. Creating a culture of
innovation in the workplace

2. Why is a culture of innovation important?

3. • You’ll make your customers happy
• You can reduce waste by building more successful
products
• You’ll increase employee morale

4. Approaches we’ll look at to foster a culture of innovation
• Defining Innovation
• Cultural Attitude
• People
• Physical Space
• Tools

5. Why does your business want to “innovate”?
• To build more, faster?
• To launch new features?
• To explore new opportunities, new revenue streams?
• To fend off competition?
• To pivot the business?

6. Present people with a problem to solve, not a solution to implement

8. Cultural Attitude

9. Start conversations with “What if?”

10. Encourage those that say “I have a crazy idea”

11. Don’t wait for perfection. It never comes.

12. Invite people to innovate – don’t force it

13. Resist project management techniques

14. Embrace failure

16. Church of FAIL

17. People

18. Further reading
At the core of a culture of
innovation is the team

19. Innovation is not a solo sport –
it’s a team game

20. Involve all facets of the business

21. Give permission for others to innovate outside of your
sphere of influence

22. What makes a successful innovative team?

23. Co-located Self Sufficient Dedicated

24. People think roadmaps looks like this
“When people are
emotionally invested, they
want to contribute.” –
Simon Sinek (TEDx)

25. Physical Space

32. Further reading

35. Hot Desk Wednesday

36. Roadmap death!
People think roadmaps looks like this
“You need to set up and
organize so that you can
do as many experiments
per unit of time as
possible.” – Jeff Bezos,
Amazon

37. Tools

38. How people think roadmaps look…

39. The reality…

41. Pick the ones that let you experiment best

42. Things to avoid

44. Silos
No colloboration
Large teams

45. ANTI Collaboration

46. Avoid freezing up
when overwhelmed

47. In Summary

48. 1. Develop a definition that’s right for your business
2. Build out a team with the license to innovate
3. Create a physical space that empowers them
4. Pick the right tools that work for you
5. Iterate and reflect (often)

50. Innovation lessons from Pixar
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/innovation/innovation_lessons_from_pixar_an_interview_with_oscar-winning_
How Pixar fosters collective creativity
https://hbr.org/2008/09/how-pixar-fosters-collective-creativity
Hello Innovation – 9 ways Pixar cultivates creative culture
http://www.helloinnovation.com/blog/9-ways-pixar-cultivates-creative-culture-can/

51. Thank You