The document discusses creating a culture of innovation in organizations. It outlines 7 ideas for what companies can do: 1) remove barriers to learning and exploration, 2) foster more collaboration using new tools, 3) leverage analytics to uncover opportunities, 4) pioneer new collaborative leadership models, 5) flatten organizational structures, 6) honor unconventional thinkers, and 7) experiment often and learn from failures. The presentation argues that the future of work will be more collaborative, flexible, and empowering of creative talent.

1. Creating a Culture of Innovation
Presented by Kevin Wheeler

2. Fewer Constraints - More Choice
Little Choice Much Choice
Scarcity/Control Surplus/Freedom
Information
Communications
Purchasing options
Education/Learning
Lifestyle
Entertainment
Food
Transportation

3. 3 Emerging Biggies!
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4. Age of Collaboration & Community
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5. n 20th Century:
n Control information
n Cloak it in secret/File patents
n Do it all yourself
n 21st Century:
n Open sharing of information
n Transparency
n Share/partner/co-create
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6. Collaborating/Crowdsourcing
n A way to . . .
n Do complex, ambiguous, multicultural
work
n Find scarce talent
n Seek multidisciplinary ideas
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9. Rise of the Creative Class
-Thomas Malone @ MIT
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11. Top 10 Countries
1. Singapore
2. Netherlands
3. Switzerland
20 57
4. Australia
5. Sweden
6. Belgium
7. Denmark
8. Finland
9. Norway
10. Germany
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12. GEN Y VALUES GO MAINSTREAM
Optimistic Empowered
Ambitious
Resourceful Passionate
Loyal
Communicators
Confident

13. GEN Y’s
n Work for love, not money
n Attracted to opportunities, not status
n Look for challenge, not tenure
n Demand that work be engaging & fun,
not drudgery
n Believe work is NOT location specific
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14. Blurring of Employee/Work Boundaries
Free Agents &
Employees
Work,
Enterprise, Partners, Leisure,
Suppliers, Customers Home
Consultants

15. Flexible Work Patterns
WORKER TODAY WITHIN 3
TYPE YEARS
Regular 85% <50%
Part-time/ 5% 10-20%
Flextime
Sometime 1% 5%
Contractor 5-10% 15-20%
Consultant 5% 10%
Insourced 5% >20%

16. R do to drive
What C an H
in nova tion?
7 IDEAS

17. 1. Remove Barriers
n HR policies aligned to support innovation.
n Encourage learning/exploration
n Allow easy internal movement
n Hire for innovative mindset
n Punish rigidity, chain of command thinking
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18. 2. Foster Collaboration
n Use collaboration tools/platforms
n Move away from email
n Encourage sharing of ideas/brainstorming
n Focus on Accountability-Based Influence
(ABI)
n Facebook
n EmpireAvenue
n Rypple
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19. 3. Leverage Analytics
n Use data to look for opportunities & uncover
needs & predict the future.
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20. 4. Pioneer New Models of
Leadership

21. The Emerging Leadership Model
n It’s Concurrent
n Several may co-lead at the same time based on skills
or experience
n It’s a Collective activity
n Many leaders /leadership of the team
n It’s Collaborative
n Shared ideas/collective decisions
n It’s Compassionate
n Emotion is allowed, Differences honored.

22. 5. Flatten the Organization
Partners
• Eliminate layersTrusted
Partners
• Broaden spans
• Shrink headcount Core
• Reach across the globe
• Build networks
Consultants/Specialists
Partners
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23. 6. Honor the Oddball
n Seek out the mavericks, the loners, those with
unsupported ideas & give them opportunities.
n Find people who can
n Deal with ambiguity
n Analyze the complex
n Live with interdependencies
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24. 7. Experiment Often & Fast
n Try new ideas – use pilots and test groups
n If something seems counter-culture, give it a
try.
n Be open to new technologies that could enhance
collaboration, communication.
n Never punish failure. Learn and move on.
n Encourage the entire firm to embrace change.
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25. IBM “HR ThinkFuture”
n Think of talent as a cloud, as mobile, possibly
working for IBM in the morning virtually and
someone else in the afternoon.
n Focus on developing leaders with multicultural
competence.
n Use social media as an HR tool replacing periodic
performance reviews and enabling daily,
continuous feedback.
n Use predictive analytics as an innovation tool.
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26. “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
-Steve Jobs