This document provides an overview of a webinar on best practices in innovation. It discusses defining innovation and frameworks for innovation. It also covers topics like the types of stakeholders involved, assessing risk tolerance, and the types of activities that can drive innovation results, including considering different innovation personalities. Tools for innovation are presented, like the Business Model Canvas and jobs to be done framework. The document emphasizes the importance of defining the target market and considering barriers to overcome. It contrasts soft thinking and hard thinking approaches.

1. Creating an
Innovation
Framework
Using the analogy of a train
Webinar #4
Best Practices in Innovation

2. Defining
Innovation
“Fresh thinking that
creates value.”
Richard Lyons
“Significant positive
change.”
Scott Berkun

3. What is a
framework?
A basic structure underlying a system,
concept, or text.
Source: https://jooinn.com/abstract-framework-background-3.html

4. Stakeholders
Vision
Risk
Tolerance Lifelong
Learning
Best
Practices
DNA
Values
Individual
Learners
Learning Orgs
All videos of the series are on www.innovationinmission.com
Risk
Tolerance
Theology of
Failure
Risk/
Reward
Skills
Processes

5. We Were
Made to Seek
Wisdom
Wisdom Calls out . . .
To teach us truth (vs. 7)
To give us understanding (v. 9)
To enable us to create new things (vs. 30-32)
To deliver rewards for right motives and priorities (vs. 35)
Proverbs 8

6. The Caboose:
Best Practices
• Who’s on Your Team?
• Types of Innovation
• Core Tools
• Activities to Drive Results

7. Activities - Innovation
Personalities
Intuition People - visionary
Connector People - networker
Data People - researcher
Tools People - practitioner
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Who’s on Your Team?

8. 6 Resources
Needed to
Launch
Innovation
• Do we have:
• People
• Tools
• Research
• Metrics
• Communications
• Recognition
• Sponsorship

9. Types of Innovation
• What kinds of change do we need to see?
• Where are we positioned to execute change?
• How might change in these areas affect the rest
of the organization?
• Example: Process Innovation
• Current reality: Each department that
engages with donors/partners/clients has
their own tracking systems and CRM
(Customer Relationship Management)
solutions
• What innovations might bring integration,
better engagement, growth of constituents?
• https://www.slideshare.net/jonhirst

10. Organizational Areas
for Innovation
• Where do we have existing
strengths?
• Where is our current model
not working?
• Where will we innovate?
• Can we innovate in multiple
areas at once?

11. Agile Approaches
• Small, focused, cross-functional, self-managing teams
• Team works together to build overall list of ideas,
improvements, features, to-do’s
• The organization works to get a sense for priorities
• Team breaks down the list into small chunks
• Team has daily stand-up meetings
• Iteratively take on priority tasks, develop them and
test them
• Scheduling is defined by weekly increments of
activity
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12. Jobs to be Done
“We all know that people “hire” products to get jobs done. Office workers hire word-processing software to create documents.
Surgeons hire scalpels to dissect soft tissue. But few companies keep this in mind while searching for ideas for breakthrough
offerings. Instead, they rely on inquiry methods (such as customer interviews) that don’t generate the most promising ideas or
exhaustive sets of possibilities.” Strategyn.com

13. By Business Model Alchemist - http://www.businessmodelalchemist.com/tools, CC
BY-SA 1.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11892574
BusinessModelCanvas

14. Disciplined Entreprenuership

15. Defining Your
Target Market
• Who needs your innovation?
• Define 6-12 markets of people
• Big enough to matter - small enough to engage
• Ask these questions:
• What are their needs?
• How will they use your product/service?
• Where are they geographically?
• What assumptions are they bringing to your interaction?
• How will they make the decision to use your resource?
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16. Barrier Busters
1. Pick a barrier to discuss
2. How have you seen this barrier
hinder ministry?
3. How did you respond to this
barrier?
4. Did you find a key to unlock it?
Photo by Matteo Catanese on Unsplash

17. Activities - Soft Thinking/Hard
Thinking
Photo by JD Mason on Unsplash
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SOFT THINKING HARD THINKING
• Soft Thinking
• Learning posture
• Creativity
• Surfacing Options
Hard Thinking
• Actionable next steps
• Logistics and planning
• Metrics and evaluation

18. Circular
Thinking
• Circular Thinking
• Problem seems
intractable
• Established solutions
seem inevitable
• Mind traps keep us from
thinking differently
• Protected turf keeps us
from engaging

19. Creating a NEW CO inside CORE CO
• Step 1: Forget
• Step 2: Borrow
• Step 3: Learn
• Step 4: Integrate or Spin Off

20. Stakeholders
Vision
Risk
Tolerance Lifelong
Learning
Best
Practices
DNA
Values
Individual
Learners
Learning Orgs
All videos of the series are on www.innovationinmission.com
Risk
Tolerance
Theology of
Failure
Risk/
Reward
Skills
Processes