Why innovative teams play Hacky Sack

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8 tips to develop more

innovative, collaborative

practices in your

organization.

Innovative teams play Hacky Sack

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Background

Value is only generated via a deep, shared understanding

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What is “a day in the life of” your customer?

How can we:

Generate revenue for shareholders/value chain participants?

Improve their daily work lives? (easier, faster, better..)Create value?

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Challenge

How do you create the

right mindset & work-culture?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU

New ideas are “old” ideas colliding, in context

so immerse teams in the customer context

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Interview plenty of customers

Get out of the building

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Dig deeper for the root cause

Why?Why?

Why?

Why?Real solution is found here

Why?

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Share “ownership” of ideas...

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...But take responsibility for tasks / projects / deliverables

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Be both creative...

…and disciplined / scientific

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Brainstorm – critique – edit. Repeat.

Helmuth von Miltke the Elder

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When everyone knows which “mode” we’re in, meetings are more collaborative and constructive.

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Think solutions past the complexity peak

Complexity Peak

A SimplerSolution

Time & understanding of a problem

Complexity

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Plan as far as your next learning milestone

So execute relatively short projects (experiments), then pivot as required

Helmuth von Miltke the Elder

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Next steps

Use these ideas to:•Energise and inspire teams.•Re-think meeting agendas.•Simplify processes and documentation.•Add traits to consider when recruiting.

Coming up next:•A Lean Product Manager’s Toolkit.

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Thanks!

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