Name of presentation Month 2009

What is an Innovation Culture?

Tim KastelleUQ Business School

CEIT Advance, errr, Retreat. Whatever.

27 November 2009

What is an InnovationCulture?

There is no such thing as society.-Margaret Thatcher

Photo: flickr/rahuldlucca

Why this…

… not this?

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Ideas are cheap

(photo: flickr/ARKTINA)

(photo: flickr/johnkoetsier)

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Invention is not Innovation

Invented: 1823Built: 1998Sold: Never

Invented: 1968Built: 1974Sold: 1981

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Innovation is Evolutionary

(photo: flickr/johnkoetsier)

Variety

Selection

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Replication

What is an InnovationCulture?

Shares a language

Generates ideas, not too

attached to them

Has good selection processes

Identifies best ideas quickly & cheaply

Learns from failures

Can get ideas

to spread

Has a bias towards action

Thank you!

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