inspiration, innovation and impact series part 1

Innovation Series Nicola Millson

6heads www.6-heads.com

April 2012

Impact, Inspiration, Innovation

…create new and better

leaders

organisations

planet

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Impact, Inspiration, Innovation

• What is the most innovative thing you have seen /done recently?

• What is the biggest problem you'd like to solve or opportunity you'd like to exploit? Frame this as "I wish my organisation could..."

• What are the barriers stopping you from making this wish come true?


Agenda: Impact, Inspiration, Innovation

A six part series:

1. Frame the series: Understand

2. Set the scene: Prepare

3. Think like Yunnus: Develop the challenge

4. Do “20/40” exercises: Build capability

5. Explore new options: Create new ideas

6. Act: Develop a plan


1. Understand: Unnovation


1. Understand: Innovation


“…new and creating value for society”

1. Understand: Why?


1. Understand: Why now?


1. Understand: Why me?



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2. Prepare: Role


“Leaders don’t just make products and decisions, leaders make meaning”

2. Prepare: Mindset


2. Prepare: Role


Invite others

4. Prepare: Constraints


“innovate inside the

box”


5. Prepare: Scale

Scale

Product Process System

Incremental

Transformational

2.

3. 1.

5. 4.


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Develop the challenge: What made them special?

Apple iPod Grameen


Develop the challenge: Stretch


What do you want to do?

“You will only answer the problem you are trying to solve”

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I wish:

Develop the challenge: 5 Why’s

Will provide you with fresh perspective on the problem and identify if you are not addressing a root cause:

• Why?

• Why?

• Why?

• Why?

• Why?


Develop the challenge: Stretch example

I WISH “We had more revenue”

Why?: We can do more projects

Why?: Our current projects aren't bringing in enough revenue

Why? They aren't having the impact we expected

Why? NGO’s aren’t responding to them

Why?: They don’t think they are useful


Develop the challenge: Stretch example


Is the real challenge how to better meet the needs of NGO’s?


State your fresh challenge


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Develop the challenge: Other ways to stretch your challenge

Re-expression

• Use alternative words

• Use different senses

• Use someone else’s perspective

Related worlds

• Other organisations

• Other people with related expertise

• Science, history, nature


Revolution

Redefine your assumptions:

• Exaggerate

• Reverse

• Oppose

• Reduce

Random Links

• Pick a random item. How is your problem like this item?


Re-expression




Related worlds





Revolution


• Exaggerate

• Reverse • Oppose

• Reduce

Random Links


“I wish we had NO revenue”



Re-expression




Related worlds





Revolution


• Exaggerate

• Reverse

• Oppose

• Reduce

Random Links


The very rich banker


State your fresh challenge


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Preparation: Personal Experiments in 20/40 Vision

Daily to do -

• It would be cool if…?

• I am inspired by…?

• A trend I spotted today…?

• New route I’ve taken to work/coffee machine/etc….?

• 1 thing said/done that I don’t agree with…?

• A new things I did that aren’t meant for me…. E.g. visit games arcade, get a facial, drive a truck…

• Learn something new: go to a lecture/download one on a topic you’ve never heard of…

• Talk to someone random (for at least 10mins)

• Map someone else doing something e.g. shop

• Find a crazy idea


Preparation: Organisational Experiments in 20/40 Vision

To do 1. Have lunch with someone

you don’t know 2. Take your team out… for a

walk, for shopping, for a bus ride, for a tourist visit, for a child experience

3. Play music first thing 4. Have a children's problem-

solver competition 5. Re-write your job

description as an explorer, astronaut or artist

To reflect

• How could I use this insight to think differently about my organisation?

• What would this mean for my customers?

• New challenge?


“The greatest danger for all of us is not that our aim is

too high and we miss it

but that our aim is too low and we reach it”

Michelangelo

Next Steps Q&A

• Contacts and follow-ups…


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