Best Practice Slam / ""People-centric Innovation, How to support people behind the ideas"" by Steffen Raetzer, Innovation Catalyst @Innovating Work

1. People-Centric Innovation
How to support the people
behind the innovative ideas.
COINAAC 2018, Berlin
Steffen RAETZER / steffen@innovating.work/ www.innovating.work / +41-78-9119972

2. The Horse Manure Crisis (1893)

3. “Nearly three-quarters of executives
say [Innovation] is a top-three priority
for their organizations…”
Source: BCG, Global Innovation Survey 2017

4. “…yet, only 20% believe they are
advantaged.”
Source: BCG, Global Innovation Survey 2017

5. Today’s ‘idea-centric’ innovation
does not deliver needed results
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6. Today’s ‘idea-centric’ innovation does
not deliver needed results
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9. 26 %

11. What happens to the other nine?
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12. What happens to the other nine?
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13. What happens to the other nine?
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14. Picture with hands in circle
Solution lies in how we treat the
people behind the innovative ideas.
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17. The Paradigms of Innovation
MYSTIC PROCESS GOAL VALUESPOWER VISION
Influence Execution Creation
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Mystic Power Process Goal Values Vision
Occurence(%)
Paradigms of Innovation Profile
Individual (Current) Corporate (Current)
Untapped
Innovative
Potential
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19. Process
Questionnaire
• Identifies innovation
paradigm of
organisation and
individual employee.
• Result measures
untapped innovation
potential in the
organisations.
Activation Training
• identify and activate
individual, intrinsic
motivators,
• link them to corporate
values and goals,
• teach tools and
methodologies to
create, test and
prototype.
Idea Generation
Idea generation and
implementation in alignment
with the organisations
objectives AND the employee’s
intrinsic motivators.
• Ideation, research,
prototyping
• First selection based on the
fit of ideas to team and
organisation.
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20. Benefits
Today Future
Idea – centric People – centric
80% of employees disengaged Employees fully engaged (high job
satisfaction, engagement and retention)
90% of innovative projects fail in
implementation
Less than 70% of innovative projects fail
in implementation
Focus on value extraction (goals and
processes)
Focus on value creation
Needed ROI > 26% Needed ROI > 13%
Team selection is function based Team selection is engagement based
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21. VS.
Case Study

22. Partners
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23. Go to
www.innovating.work

24. Thank you!
Steffen Raetzer / +41-78-9119972 / steffen@innovating.work