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Sparking and Leading Innovation. Women’s Leadership Institute December 5-8, 2010. Kathryn J. Deiss ACRL Content Strategist [email protected]. Photo by Tom Oliver. Who is innovative?. Photo by kelsmith1992. Creative Inventions. Lightning Rounds - 60 seconds - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Sparking and Leading Innovation
Women’s Leadership InstituteDecember 5-8, 2010Kathryn J. Deiss
ACRL Content [email protected]
Photo by Tom Oliver
Creative InventionsLightning Rounds - 60
seconds1.Create an invention using
your card and someone else’s2. Write it down on back of card3. Find another person and
repeat4. Find another person and
repeat
Changing perspective jogs the creative impulse
The Adjacent Possible :a concept describing the power of combinatory connections/collisionsCoined by scientist Stuart Kaufmann and cited in Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
“Innovation is the embodiment, combination, and/or synthesis of knowledge in novel, relevant, valued new products, processes, or services.”
Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap
Innovations are those things that change the way we can do what we want to do Innovation is disruptive Innovation is both revolutionary and evolutionary Society decides what is innovative
Directional vs. intersectional innovation
Directional innovation combines ideas within a field
Intersectional innovation combines ideas at the intersections of different fields resulting in an increased level of possibilitiesSource: Johanssen, Frans. The Medici Effect Photo by Brandon Ciril
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More stuff on the table!
Photo by Lucy Lou
“Different is not always better but better is always different.”
Rick LuceEmory University
Barriers to innovation Organizational age Individual & group skills lacking Desire for perfection Risk aversion Natural tensions & dichotomies Photo by remu
z
Mature organization proven track record
established resources
less likely to take risks
less flexible reliance on and replication of past successful practices
improvisation more difficult
Young organization sparse track record
volatile resources more likely to risk
more flexible no past to replicate
natural improvisation
Innovation and org. age
Skills related to innovation Right brain thinking Play and non-verbal skills Idea generating skills and tools Leadership skills Observation and analytical skills Ability to question Prototyping
Photo by moqub
Sometimes you have to bust something up to achieve a breakthrough!
The desire for perfection interrupts the flow of innovation
Photo by Leo Reynolds
Risk Aversion
Photo by anarchosyn
Dichotomies
Stability Standards
Expertise Performance
Certainty
Disturbance Unknown consequences & patterns
Play Practice Risk
Center on missionLower barriers to external
collaboration Embrace volatilityHarvest external
support
Lessons from Nonprofit Innovators
Change the prevailing winds
Operate “just beyond the possible.”Source: Paul C. Light “Sustaining Innovation”
Photo by Bee Skutch
“You don’t see the world as it is; you see it as you are.”
Luc deBrabandere
Photo by in da mood
Political implicationsCornelis Drebbel and £20,000 (1624)
Societal readiness Patterns of behavior Political climate Building the message
“Innovation is the embodiment, combination, and/or synthesis of knowledge in novel, relevant, valued new products, processes, or services.”
Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap
What are the political implications of some innovations your unit has tried or wishes to try? Who needs to buy-in? What timing issues exist? What is the readiness for the innovation?
Practices for Innovation Identifying question/opportunity
Voluminous idea generation
Use of creative thinking tools
Tolerance for failure and time lags or jumps
Escaping “the end of..” syndrome; embracing “the beginning of..” way of thinking
Prototyping: a new skill
Prototyping Observation of people & situations
Trials and tests Three dimensional aspect Inventive Feedback loops
“Quick prototyping is about acting before you have got the answers…Good prototypes don’t just communicate, they persuade.”
Tom Kelley, IDEO
What’s in a name? the GGNRA’s transformation by prototype
Design by Michael Schwab
From Golden Gate National Recreation AreatoGolden Gate National Parks
Photo by yepperdoodle
Use the unexpected to your advantage
Johnny Lee Chung:a case of unintended consequenceshttp://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/
Photo by fixpert!
Think of something in your department or institution that could benefit from a new prototype name or image
As a group share projects and do a quick idea sort on one of these situations
Innovation incubators Places - physical & virtual Skills - play, ideating, prototyping
Practices - processes and tools Technologies - emerging tools for delivering and testing services
Planning an Innovation IncubatorUse the planning
handout to think through setting up an innovation incubator - let your imagination play!Discuss your planning thoughts
with two other people in the room
Some Final Thoughts
We need to seek intersections
We need to engage in trial and error and prototyping
We need to adopt multiple perspectives
We need to face into the outside world
“The most successful people are those who are willing to give up their most successful strategies….”
Richard Foster
Thank you!Keep in [email protected]
