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5 confessions, 5 C-words and a coming book title Unleashing the innovative power within your organisation

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5 confessions, 5 C-words and a coming book title

Unleashing the innovative power within your organisation

5 confessions: I broke the law at the age of 15 I stole ideas when I was an ad agency copywriter I lost 3 millions from own savings on a failure I get my best ideas when I´m loose and disorganised I find it harder to excite colleagues than customers – and some related learnings

1985

1985

1985

I broke the law at the age of 15…. but learned to explore gaps, trash obstacles and grab opportunities

Let´s see some trashin

Let´s do some trashin

Trend spotting is taking notice of changes in the surrounding world

§ A trend is a change in the world outside the organisation

§ A change that has a direction (cheaper, faster, smaller ...)

§ A trend is visible now – not something you think will happen

§ A trend has a minimum expected duration § A trend has a domain, a validity range

Computers are getting

cheaper and faster

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I stole ideas as ad agency copywriter …and saw the value of inspiration sharing and idea co-creation!

In the beginning – keeping up to date

Then came mastering Ctrl C Y

Today: Automated and on the fly

Steven Johnson in

“Where do good ideas come from?”

“Good ideas want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual boarders. They want to complete each other a much

as they want to compete”!

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I lost 3 millions from own savings on a failure…. but managed to live with that

Shorter lifecycles

No gutts, no glory

We did not innovate fast enough. Stephen Elop, Nokia

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I get most ideas when I´m loose and disorganised…although I´m selling structured brainstorming sessions!

The most creative minds are not in a conference room

The best size of a brainstorm group is one.

Your morning shower is good for more than washing

Uncorking the muse: Alcohol intoxication facilitates creative problem solving

Take a break and do something

habitual, like going for a walk or taking a nap

”Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things”

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I find it harder to excite colleagues than customers…even though they are experts on foresight & innovation!!

The default bias of corporate innovation is anti-innovative

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The default bias of corporate innovation is anti-innovative

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Out-of-box ideas measured by in-the-box standards

Out-of-box ideas measured by in-the-box standards

Make space for two engines

The 5 C-words Challenge Canvas Crowd Culture Continue

Unleashing the innovative power within your organisation, with

1. Raise Challenges with focal questions

§ Begin with questions first rather than driving toward ‘the best ideas’ or ‘early solutions’.

§ Questions are objective; they aren’t owned by any one individual. § Questions help groups collaborate more deeply

A working process that enables, enpowers and optimize your innovation capacity

2. Use a cloud Canvas for collaboration A tool is needed to capture data and develop ideas, with the following high level characteristics: 1.  Easily available – a mobile and web app that all employees (and

customers, partners) can get to directly 2.  Easy to use – the basics of the tool should be as easy to use as possible

so that more people embrace it 3.  Allow for tight cross-functional collaboration – most challenges will

require collaboration of a number of people and the tool must aid that. 4.  Support analytical processing – to digest information, recognize

patterns, spot trends and relate a diverse set of data 5.  Give feedback and produce reports of key performance indicators - so

that everyone remaines engaged

Future Strategy work sessions – WS format

Analysing at the ease of your fingertips

..and in a fun, collaborative way

Guided idea development process

Guided process for concept development

Evaluation of idea/concept against given success criteria

Think creatively and collaborate on what can go wrong

Watch you teams individual and average evaluation

…with elements of interaction!

3. Harness the collective genius of a crowd

Involve your own employees, customers, partners, experts

(or digital agents) ( Let the Crowd capture, share and rate wherever they are on the cloud application

Somethimes it is smart to start with an external crowd

400 000 engaged consumers in the Nordics

2000 innovators, Worldwide

99,9% of all that knows

something about Lego

works outside our

organisation

4. Embrace a company Culture where innovation will sprout, not die

Create a behavior that leads to a strong innovation Culture

1. Engage facilitators/trainers – with active support from top management.

2. Run trainingsessions – a core team can create the first spottings, trends or ideas.

3. Run a kick-off– jam!, follow-up– jam!

4. Give positive feedback to those that are engaged.

5. Tips/challenge others to get started – if they have not.

6. Actively reward right behavior with Cred, badges and awards.

7. Give an possibility for individual competence development and certification.

5. Continue feeding the loop of innovation

A book title – and a cover sketch

Skate or Die Mngm

Go to where the fun, action and pain is

Get a canvas for captures & co-creations

Never stop trashin

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