Frank Dethier

Session 5: Resources

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HOW TO INNOVATE?

RESOURCES

Strategy, Process & Organization are important, but your People will

innovate!

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Right person,

Right job

Individuals Project Teams

Diversity

Leadership

Vision, listening

& advice

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INDIVIDUALS

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Who are your best Innovators?

Most companies have a lot of experience identifying their best performers,

but not their best Innovators

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HOW TO INNOVATE?

YOU

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Standaard Test

• Ontdekker

• Planner

• Realist

• …

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Curious

Challenge status quo

Take risks, difficult to

manage

Creative, Intuitive

Networking

Ideal to create ‘broad

ideas’

Practical and eye for

details

Respect rules &

authority

Task oriented & like to

finish it

Ideal to implement ideas

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Starters – ‘NT’ Finishers – ‘SJ’

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RECRUITMENT OF INDIVIDUALS

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What kind of people do you recruit?

But we do expect different results?!

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Clarify

Context

Big Picture

& Create

Ideas

Plan solutions

& Develop Take Action

& Implement

Creation Process

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Do you know your preference(s)?

Foursight identifies ‘best’ role of individual in Innovation project

But not your potential in comparison with successful Innovators

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Clarify

Context

Big Picture

& Create

Ideas

Plan solutions

& Develop Take Action

& Implement

Creation Process

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How would you staff an Innovation project team?

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Right person,

Right job

Individuals Project Teams

Diversity

Leadership

Vision, listening

& advice

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PROJECT TEAMS

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Reaches quickly

consensus

React consistently in

even predictable way

(based on their

preferences)

Reaches more difficult

consensus

Ideal for Innovative

assignments

Synergetic effect

Homogenous Team Heterogeneous Team

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Disruptive Innovation

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BRAIN DOMINANCE MODEL

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Data gathering as well as Problem solving

Left & Right Brain thinkers

Left: logical, analythical

Right: non-linear, intuitive approach

Problem solving preference

Individually

In group

Learn & Experiment

Abstract thinkers: learn before they experiment

Experience thinkers: experiment before learning

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What kind of tools/processes to use to optimally use all your resources capabilities?

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Isaac Newton

PROJECT TEAMS

BRAIN DOMINANCE MODEL - HBDI

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Albert Einstein

Ghandi

J. Edgar Hoover

Great Brains in History

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BRAIN DOMINANCE MODEL - DIVERSITY

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PROJECT TEAMS

Functional Diversity: ensure (besides thinking

styles/personality) that all functions are represented

in team

Development

Marketing

Sales

Financials

Design

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PROJECT TEAMS

FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY

Design is also important driver of Innovation

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PROJECT TEAMS

‘Ideal’ size of project team?

Very small teams (e.g. 2 to 3 people) lack often

diversities (functional, personality) needed for

Innovation

Very large teams (> 10 to 12 people) are too big to

exchange info in an effective and active way

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Right person,

Right job

Individuals Project Teams

Diversity

Leadership

Vision, listening

& advice

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HOW TO INNOVATE?

LEADERSHIP

Most important individual in your organisation

to have successful innovations?

For example

Creative Director?

R&D Director?

Head of Marketing?

Creative genius?

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CEO = most important person

Link Innovation & Strategy

Create Focus, engagement & passion for Innovation

Dedicated budgets and resources for Innovation

programs

Accelerate good ideas into new products, Services or

business models

Define Innovation process & metrics to ensure

Innovation becomes sustainable in the organization

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Be genuinly

curious

Listen

profoundly Ask powerful

questions

Help reframe

challenge

Give

feedback

Reflect big

picture/ vision

Take

responsibility,

but allow people

to grow

Behavior that

stimulates Innovation

with people

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challenge organizational norms,

encourage divergent thinking, and

push followers to develop

innovative strategies

high standards of moral and ethical

conduct and who engender loyalty

from followers

Inspiring vision for the future based

on values and ideals

recognizing the unique growth and

developmental needs of followers

as well as coaching followers and

consulting with them

aimed at monitoring and controlling

employees through rational or

economic means

provide tangible or intangible

support and resources to followers

in exchange for their efforts and

performance

Setting standards and monitoring

deviations from these standards

Transformational

leaderschip Transactional leadership

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challenge organizational norms,

encourage divergent thinking, and

push followers to develop

innovative strategies

high standards of moral and ethical

conduct and who engender loyalty

from followers

Inspiring vision for the future based

on values and ideals

recognizing the unique growth and

developmental needs of followers

as well as coaching followers and

consulting with them

aimed at monitoring and controlling

employees through rational or

economic means

provide tangible or intangible

support and resources to followers

in exchange for their efforts and

performance

Setting standards and monitoring

deviations from these standards

Transformational

leaderschip Transactional leadership

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Higher success

rate for

Innovation

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LEADERSHIP

Managers that don’t like conflicts, fall often in

‘comfortable clone syndrome’

Surround themselves with people thinking the same

way

‘If we all think alike, then no one is thinking’ (Patton)

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CREATIVE GENIUSES

Some traits

Who comes up with the critical ideas that are the

beginnings of innovation?

No one can innovate if they accept things the way they

are today, so making innovations requires that we are

willing to see things differently. We have to overcome

institutional and bureaucratic inertia that may burden our

thinking process, and challenge ourselves to see

beyond conventional viewpoints.

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INNOVATION LEADERS

Some traits

set expectations, define priorities, celebrate and reward

successes, and deal with failures, and all of these

factors can be done in a way that makes innovation

easier or more difficult

promote, encourage, prod, support, and drive innovation

in their organizations. They do this in spontaneous

moments of insight, in ad-hoc initiatives, as well as in

highly structured innovation programs

they help people seek new experiences that may spark

new ideas; and they create a regular operations context

in which sharing and developing new ideas is the norm

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OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS

Do not classify all your employees rigidly into these

categories

But ensure that all roles are being played, and played

well, so that defining, developing, and implementing

ideas that become innovations becomes the norm.

New recruitments: think also about traits you’re

looking for

Reflect on your own leadership (and ask feedback)

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