The document discusses tenets of innovation for libraries in a hyper-connected world. It outlines that innovation is desirable to users, possible with technology, and viable in the marketplace. The tenets include that ideas can come from anywhere, building on creative assets, freedom to brainstorm with diverse ideas, sharing ideas transparently, pursuing passions, accepting that innovation is not perfect initially, embracing failure to learn and improve, aligning innovation with strategy, focusing on patrons over the status quo, and morphing ideas rather than dismissing them.

1. Innovating in a Hyper-
Connected World
Burt Lum
2010 HLA Annual Conference
November 5, 2010
bytemarks@gmail.com
Bytemarks.org

2. Why Innovate?
Desirable
to users
Possible
with
technology
Viable
in
marketplace
INNOVATION
10 Tenets of Innovation >>>

3. 1. Ideas can come from Anywhere
Patrons
Librarians
FriendsCommunity
Trade
Publications

4. 2. Build on your creative assets

5. 3. Freedom to Brainstorm
• Respect IndividualVoices
• Stay Focused
• Go for Quality
• BeVisual
• Defer Judgment
• EncourageWild Ideas
• Build on Ideas of Others

6. 4. Share the ideas, be transparent

7. 5. License to pursue your Passion

8. 6. Innovation is not instant Perfection

9. 7. Fail Often, Fail Fast
• Much of success is a numbers
game.
• Life is inherently risky. There is
only one big risk you should avoid
at all costs and that is the risk of
doing nothing. (-Denis Waitley)
• Risk what you can afford.

10. 8. Innovation aligns to Strategy

11. 9. Focus on Patrons, not the Status
Quo

12. 10. Don’t kill Prospects, Morph Them