Innovation as Usual: How We Fail to Get the Best Ideas Out of Our People

How we Fail …..

Dubai October 2014

The INNOVATION ARCHITECT

The person who creates a space

in which innovation can take place

Challenges &

Insights

Innovation As Usual.........

Innovation as Usual Paddy Miller & Thomas

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Focus on ideas that matter to the business1

Tweak and challenge their initial ideas3

Stealthstorm past the politics of innovation5

Connect to the outside to find original ideas2

Select the best ideas and discard the rest4

+1 Persist in the pursuit of innovation as usual

1. Deal with the

DISCONNECT

1

Forget the future;

Look back

Insight #

Know where you’re going;

Quick or Big?

Challenge #

STEALTHSTORMING

Jordan Cohen

Test group (6 ppl)

Current users

(4,000)

Pfizer world-wide

(80,000)

Sigelman (India)

Cohen’s boss

Vice Chairman

David Kreutter (Advisor)

India team Cohen’s team

Seth Appel (back end)

Tanya C-W. (front end)

Key stakeholders

Pilot group (50)

Don’t brainstorm,

Stealthstorm

Insight #

Don’t find the solution;

Frame the problem

Insight #

The Monday Morning Problem

REVOLVING DOOR MANAGEMENT

Innovation as Usual

Paddy Miller

1. Are you dealing with the Disconnect?

2. Are you teaching people to Stealthstorm?

3. Are you looking for opportunity spaces?

4. Are you framing problems for your people? +1 Are you tackling the revolving door problem?

THANKS! for listening

Paddy Miller miller@iese.edu