all talk and no action… - Phantom Plastics
Transcript of all talk and no action… - Phantom Plastics
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INNOVATION IN INDUSTRY
all talk and no action…
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Who is this guy?
• Over 15 years of experience in innovation and industry: Cookson, YKI, Electrolux, BASF & Hybrid Plastics
• Serial innovator: many inventions, 13patents & 2 Innocentive cash awards
• Papers, articles, book chapters, presentations & workshops
• Fellow of the Royal Society of • Chemistry & Chartered Chemist
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Introduction
• What is innovation?
• Why do we need it?
• How do we approach it now?
• What are the weak points?
• How can we prevent or ameliorate them?
• What the future holds: new tools
• Conclusions
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What is innovation?
“ideation and innovation are not synonyms. The former deals with the generation of ideas; the latter, with
their implementation.”Levitt
• Generate ideas
• Pick the best ones
• Generate new products and processes
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Why do we need innovation?
• The market is dynamic so new products are always necessary
• Competitors do not stand still
• Stock holders demand a return on investment
• 30-80% of a companies valuation is based on anticipated profits from innovation
• Even the most successful companies do poorly just 5 years later (so there is no winning formula)
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Product development scheme
Marketing R&DProduct
DevelopmentProduction
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What are the weak points?
• Identifying the market needs
• R&D effectiveness
• Project transfer between functions
• Project monitoring systems
• Time to market
• In short: everything!
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Innovators
“The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have
imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.”
Charles F. Kettering
• Anyone can have ideas
• However, only a very few will consistently generate valuable ideas
• Look after your innovators
• Gain access to a larger pool (shown later)8
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R&D – basic research
“Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a
target.”
Homer Adkins (Nature, 1984)
• Many scientists look down upon applied research
• The Nobel Prize is awarded for “cool” work of doubtful utility
• Large companies are safe havens for scientists to play
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R&D – applied research
“Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application
toward some worthwhile end.”Napoleon Hill
• Applied research is more challenging and more personally rewarding
• Done under constraints on time, money, safety and practicability
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Project “management”
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people
to work.”Peter Drucker
• Project management tools work well for repetitive or predictable activities
• They do not help in innovative processes as they are, by nature, unpredictable
• So, why do we use them?
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Project “management”
“When you do not know what you are doing, do it neatly, efficiently, and
decisively.”anon (Guidelines for Successful Planners)
• Project monitoring tools give management an overview
• By implementing procedures, one creates the illusion of control
• The net effect is to slow development and shift focus from actual work to paperwork
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Idea filtering
“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”
Linus Pauling
• Generating ideas is not that hard
• Good ideas are however, hard to find
• Filtering the ideas is key
• Experienced staff with commercial awareness are needed
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New information paradigm
“The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.”
Samuel Johnson
• The information now available far outstretches mankind’s ability to remember it
• We have to shift our focus from memorization to:
– storage– searching & networking– filtering– critical thinking
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New information paradigm
Useful output
Ever faster
+30% per year
>20 exabytes
1 exabyte = 1018 bytes
Information worldwide
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Time and timing
• Innovation needs to be correctly timed to hit the market window
• The market clock ticks independently from the company clock
• Projects need be accelerated
• Initiate projects immediately
• Run activities concurrently
• Fewer, faster projects
• Leads to increased return
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World-scale woes
“There is no greater barrier to innovation than a paid-off plant.”
• Economies of scale are needed to compete in any market
• This means ever increasing investments needed just to stay in the game
• Introducing a new process is almost impossible:
– existing process has been tuned for decades
– no viable mechanism to scale up gradually17
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Talent and productivity
Talent = initiative x drive x ability x focus but
Productivity = initiative x drive x ability x focusselfishness
• Companies all know that they need talented staff
• Unfortunately, those they get are average
• Better employees can be hired with the aid of simple tools
• Get better staff and…
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Large company syndrome
“In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be
right alone.”John Kenneth Galbraith
• Almost no contact to the customer
• All contacts are internal (politics rule)
• No chance to affect the bottom line
• Decision making problems
• Wrapped in red tape
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The safety seesaw
output
safety
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What does the future hold?
New tools include:
• Virtual marketing
• Open innovation
• Innovation indexing
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Virtual marketing
The old way:
• Hardcopy market studies
• Limited dataset
• Subjective analysis
• Out of date information
The new way:
• Instant internet access
• Vast dataset of potential customers
• You can analyze and tune the analysis
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Open Innovation
The old way:
• Maintain a large corporate R&D department (fixed cost)
• Rely on internal ideas
• Low chance of out-of-the-box ideas
The new way:
• Maintain a small corporate R&D
• World-wide ideas and more ideas
• Multidisciplinary with breakthrough potential
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Innovation Index
Purpose: Screening collaboration partners, optimizing structure
Input parameters:
Number of employees ( number of chances to innovate, N)
Annual Sales ( chance to affect the bottom line, P)
Number of levels in hierarchy ( decision making ability, D)
R&D spending as % of sales ( resources allocated, R)
Market share yet to win ( incentive level, M)
Employee fraction next to customers (market contact, E)
Innovation Index Ix= N x P x D x R x M x E
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Conclusions
• We need innovation to grow and thrive
• Most companies are very poor at delivering innovation
• The process is flawed and must be changed
• New tools allow major improvement:
– personality profiling for better employees
– virtual marketing for real-time market info
– open innovation for better, cheaper, results
– innovation index to select partners
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Further reading
1. P. Doyle, Marketing Management & Strategy 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall, Essex, UK, 2002.
2. C. M. Christensen, The Innovator’s Dilemma, Harper Business, New York, USA, 2000.
3. C. M. Christensen, M. E. Raynor, The Innovator’s Solution, Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation, Massachusetts, USA, 2003.
4. P. G. Smith, D. G. Reinertsen, Developing Products in Half the Time 2nd Edition, John Wiley & Sons New York USA 1998.
5. M. Michalko, Thinkertoys 2nd Edition, Ten Speed Press, California, USA, 2006.
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