Ed Bernacki, international speaker, writer and consultant on the use of innovation in organisation. Author of "Wow! Thats a Great Idea!"

1. innovation by design
building your capacity to innovate
Ed Bernacki
The Idea Factory

3. Manufacturing R&D
Investing for future ideas, processes and profits

4. What makes innovative
organizations innovative?
How do you measure “innovative”?

5. The top 20% in the survey turn their ideas into
action via…
1. Well defined idea management processes
2. Create a climate which encourages ideas to flow
freely through the organization
3. An effective balance between leaders and
followers to sustain an innovative working
environment
“…three critical underlying capabilities”

6. Achallenges: initiatives
The project you want to
solve, create, develop or manage.
Bchallenges:
managing the process
How you manage
people to solve the ‘A’
challenge.

7. Where is innovative
thinking needed?
Problem A: Tangible Innovation
What new products and services do you need?
What improvements can be made to the
delivery of these services?
Problem B: Intangible Innovation
What new processes / structures do you need
to help people work together effectively and
efficiently?

8. Problem A: Tangible Innovation
Think like an archeologist
New products and service designs
Invest in future processes and service offerings
Problem B: Intangible Innovation
Think like an anthropologist
New processes to help people work together effectively
and efficiently

9. 9
Think like an anthropologist
 Rule of law
 Welfare system
 Zero per cent unemployment rate
 Life long learning
 Individual spirituality
 Learner driven education
 Context specific leadership
 Gender equality
 Medicinal effects of herbs
 Barter trade – national trade routes
 Consensus decision making
 Model for a sustainable world

10. knowledge: the product of the anthropologist
10
Insights: the currency of the anthropologist
 Notice how people work and
play
 Notice ‘what is there’ and
‘what is missing’
 Notice relationships: how
people interact
 Notice thinking: how people
think and solve problems
 Notice knowledge: how it is
communicated and used

11. Victoria Department of Sustainability
and Environment
Strategy and Innovation Unit
■ Help internal divisions develop new strategies
by acting as internal strategy consultants
offering facilitation support
■ Improve the corporate planning and
performance monitoring framework
■ Develop a ‘culture’ of innovation in terms of…
1. creating opportunities to promote innovation;
2. growing organizational and individual
capacity to innovate; and
3. launching new initiatives to improve the
department’s ability to generate and
implement new ideas.
Innovation strategy:
innovation tactics

12. NZ Ministry of Labour
Email for a copy of
this innovation
overview
Innovation strategy:
innovation tactics

13. Innovation strategy:
innovation tactics

14. Canadian Food Inspection Agency:
HR Process Lab
Objective: identify day-to-day process
improvements and longer term challenges.
Innovation Experiments:
Managers can try new HR processes.
Advisors advise on risks, pros and cons
Invention Sessions:
Opportunity for people to brainstorm new ideas
for HR management.
Ideas are shared - best practices can be used by
others and to further an innovative culture.
Focused on ‘B’ Challenges
Innovation strategy:
innovation tactics

15. Bank of Canada Ideas Expo
1. Build a culture to innovate
2. Build awareness of skills to innovate
3. Improve ‘idea management’ skills
Innovation strategy:
innovation tactics

16. Singapore Prime Ministers Office
“To build our innovation capacity we must focus on creating
a culture that supports new thinking.
For individual public officers, we can provide essential
training to enhance their capacity to innovate.”
Skills framework:
1. Generating ideas
2. Developing ideas
3. Judging ideas
4. Communicating ideas
5. Turning ideas into actions
Innovation strategy:
innovation tactics

17. Innovation Communities of Practice
1. Gather people who are keen.
2. Prompt discussions, training and
events to prompt new thinking
3. Manage knowledge and ideas to
share – not as a source of power
Innovation strategy:
innovation tactics

18. Be an… innovationalist!
Communication is crucial
Be a role model
Everyone is part of the solution
What needs to be said in your organisation?
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