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Innovation Enabling Ecology –

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Welcome Welcome to a short journey into the world of Innovation Enabling Ecology.

As in the “green” ecological world, it is about interactions between the different elements of the system, it is about (organisational) climate, it is about delicate balance between conflicting forces, it is about the conditions which might can lead to renewal or stagnation.Unlike the physical world ecology, the innovation enabling ecology is related not only to physical phenomena but also to less tangible factors, such as cultural and organisational ones.

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Why bother?Because innovation needs supportive ecology (or climate) in order to flourish.Because the principles of the enabling ecology can help you improve your own innovation working ecology.And because it can help you cocreate with your team a better climate for innovation.

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Use Instructions1. Navigate between the “16 constructs” of the innovation ecology, using the left-

side navigation bar or the Ecology map.

2. Explore each construct, read, think, and discuss with yourself or your colleagues the following aspects: What this aspect means? Why is it important? What is your situation? How others are dealing with it?

3. Want to know more? The “learn more” bottom will take you to some more information, including links to relevant internet sites and book.

4. Link ecology in the other DI tools: click the “Impact other tools” to learn how to implement the Ecology principles in the IPL, DPM and OR tools.

5. Move from insights into action: identify Innovation ecology aspects that need to be improved. Generate ideas on how to deal with them. Select the most attractive ones. The “Action!” bottom will give you some “tips and tricks” which can help you in this move.

6. Weird ideas that work: meet 11.5 practices for promoting innovation. Click “Weird Ideas”

7. Have fun (Weird idea # 12).

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What is DI enabling ecology?

Time

Organisational structure

ToleranceTo failure Diversity

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Market forIdeas

Recognition & Incentives

KM & Buiz. Intelligence

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Innovation Enabling Ecology is the work environment that can enable, encourage, foster, and catalyse the generation of ideas and creation of value out of them. It supports individuals, teams, and the whole organisation in the journey towards sustainable growth and success that are based on the balanced portfolio of innovation covering incremental, radical and disruptive innovation. The Innovation ecology is composed of the constructs shown bellow (and possibly other elements special to your own organisation).

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Time (part I)WHY: New ideas require exploration before their value can be demonstrated to others. Innovative organisations give people the freedom to use some of their time to explore ideas without having to ask permission.

In many organisational surveys, "lack of time" appears as the #1 obstacle for innovation.

ASK YOURSELF: How can employee “disappear” for a whole afternoon/day/week to pursue an idea?Do employees have specific time to detach for their daily job and focus on future possibilities and opportunities? Who can enjoy this privilege? What is your situation, personally?Do teams (e.g. departments and project team) have specific time to detach for their daily job and focus on future possibilities and opportunities? If such time frame exists, is it used effectively?Do you feel that some really creative people are overloaded with their daily tasks, and this might lead to missing opportunities?

GOOD PRACTICES: Go to next slide.

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GOOD PRACTICES:

TIP: Allow and encourage each employee to spend up to x% of his/her time in generating and exploring ideas and opportunities which are not within his normal job duties.

Good practice: 3M is famous for inviting all their employees to allocate 15% of their working time towards this activity.

TIP: Allocate periodically a specific time slot for each department to generate, disucss,share and promote new opportunities and ideas.

Good practice: at ECI, every Thursday afternoon, each R&D department is spending 2 hours in innovation group sessions – some structured and some take free format.

TIP: Enable a small number of very creative and wild employees to wander around with no specific job or responsibility.

Good practice: in Refael, 1 of each 500 employees has exactly this job – no specific duties, just go around, talk with people within and outside the organisation – and pontialy come with ideas, insights, distractions etc.

TIP: Enable a team which come with a good idea to spend significant amount of time on further developing the idea to the next step.

Good practice: in Sydkraft, a team of employees whose idea passed the intial rough evaluation, or invited to leave their normal job for a week or two, and work solely on this idea to prepare it for the next evaluation stage. This takes place in a remote location.

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Physical Space (part I)

WHY: In an economy based on innovation, what better use can there be for space than to inspire creativity? Several innovative organisations believe that creative space – both the shared space and the private office – can significantly contribute to the organisational atmosphere of wild ideas,

action, chaos, open mind, and barrier-breaking. .

ASK YOURSELF: Offices and work stations: How do the work spaces of the employees look like? Do they inspire creativity?Are all work spaces standardized, or are they designed and effected by the diverse needs and characteristics of each employee?Collective spaces for collaboration – are there “good” spaces for sharing ideas, challenges and solutions – both spontaneity and in organized sessions? For example – how well is the coffee making (or the lobby? Or the dinning room) coroner used towards this aim?Is there a hide-away space for individuals or teams?Do you feel that some really creative people are overloaded with their daily tasks, and this might lead to missing opportunities?


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GOOD PRACTICES:

TIP: The merging of fun and work is invigorating .

Good practice: The playful design of IDEO’s Boston offices invites employees to play with ideas, think out of the box, and break the rules. At IDEO, they believe that at its best, space can inspire and amuse. (Kelley,

2000). .

TIP: Create a space which is detached from the ordinary work environment, where employees are invited to come and think out-of-the-box .

Good practice:. Skandia’s Future Centre is located in Villa Askudden in Vaxholm, a small town in the Stockholm archipelago. The house was built in 1860. Its modernisation in 1995 preserved the spatial feeling and distinctive carpentry of the local architecture. This, together with the ever-shifting panorama of the sea and nature, creates a delightful setting which is timeless and historic as well as future-oriented. Clever use of internal design, smells, and music creates an imagination-provoking space.

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Processes (part I)

WHY: Serendipity is a key to recurring innovation. Innovative companies must protect the possibility that surprises will occur. Serendipity, intuition, experience, scanning, and relations are sources of surprises. At the same time, without a powerful process to capture the good ideas and turn them into value, most ideas will vanish without having a fair chance to make their way through a serious evaluation, development and testing funnel.

ASK YOURSELF: How many GOOD ideas are not realized?Is there a clear and effective process to ensure that good ideas will get their “fair chance”?Does this process tolerate (or even encourage) ideas which might disrupt what the company currently do?Are all (relevant) employees aware of this route?How much time it takes for an idea to make its way to the development phase?


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GOOD PRACTICES:

TIP: Create a simple yet powerful process to handle ideas.

Good practice: Sydkraft, a Swedish Energy solutions provider, has established a very structured process for dealing with Innovation. The company has started a systematic process for internal incubation of future ideas. The process is composed of 5 stages: rough selection, initial evaluation, technology cell and business cell. Expert support is provided at each stage. The process deals only with ideas which are outside the current scope of existing units.

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Initialevaluation

“Innovation Cell”“BusinessCell”

Carry through-Prove the

business idea

New Business

They have:

Standard process (approx 3 months from idea to decision)

Dedicated support team

Funding for the best ideas

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Focus on the future (part I)

WHY: In a turbulent environment, there is continuous tension between the day-to-day challenges, tasks and problems and the need to focus on the future. In organisations that excel in innovation, the top priority issue is the future. In other companies, most management and employee attention is directed to incremental improvements of existing products, fire fighting and short-term objectives.

ASK YOURSELF: How much of your R&D budget is invested in incremental improvements? In long range-hi-risk and potentially disruptive ideas?Same question, regarding management time?Same question, regarding the way you spend your time?Who is responsible for the 10+ years future? Is he/she positioned appropriately? With the right resources?


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GOOD PRACTICES:

TIP: Create a strong team which is “responsible” for future affairs.

Good practice: Ericsson established the Foresight group in 2001.

6 staff members.

One (very) senior leader

Well defined scope – 10 years and beyond

Clear process based on inventing wild speculations about the future from internal and external sources, careful prioritization and selection of few of them for comprehensive analysis

30 Ambassadors from all business units participating in 4 foresight workshops each year (this is critical- to avoid Ivory-tower phenomena)

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Foresight mission statement

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Diversity (part I)

WHY: Similar people will generate similar ideas. Some innovative organisations deliberately increase diversity in the work force. Diverse experiences, cultural backgrounds, professions, academic background, ages, and personalities contribute to the creation of fruitful dialogues based on multiple perspectives.

ASK YOURSELF: How diverse is our workforce? Why?How diverse are project teams? Marketing teams? Research teams?How diverse is the management team (gender? Age? Professional background? Cultural background?)Could more diversity enhance the creativity of our teams?How can we increase diversity in order to increase disruptive innovation capability? In which directions?


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GOOD PRACTICES:

TIP: Create a strong team which is “responsible” for future affairs.

Good practice: Leif Edvinsson from Skandia built his Future Teams on a model of organization he calls "3G": a mix of generations (from 20-somethings to 60-somethings) as well as functional roles, organizational experiences, and cultural backgrounds. The aim is to do a more explicit job of managing conversations within the group and to create intellectual capital from the dialogues. Some of the most potent lessons come from those normally excluded from the discussion of strategy -- the young and untenured. "We need people who can understand the archeology of the future, he says. "That's why we have these 25-year-olds in our program. They already have that vision --

they carry the icons of tomorrow with them” (FastCompany).

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Tip: How to Attract a Diverse Workforce (tips from Freddie Mac) Place ads in magazines aimed at people from different backgrounds.

Sponsor and participate in career shows geared toward minority groups.

Develop internship programs that solicit minority applicants.

Track diversity statistics for your region and work to match them.

http://www.computerworld.com/departments/surveys/bestplaces/us_story/0,10992,70863,00.html

See als weired ideas #1, #1,5, #2

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Leadership (part I)

WHY: The appropriate leadership can actively out-of-box-thinking, protect, sponsor and ultimately fund disruptive ideas, and create the organisational climate in which innovation flourishes. This is not a trivial task, as it required managers to leave the “comfort zone” of business-as-usual.

ASK YOURSELF: How does the top executives in your organisation react to disruptive ideas?What role do they usually play: Ignoring disruptive ideas? Encouraging and protecting them? Inviting them? Protect the status-quo?How much time does the manager/managements invest in pursuing radical or disruptive ideas? How does they spend this time?What are the explicit and underline messages that top executives deploy throughout the organisation, regarding innovation? How do they do it? What else can they do in this area?


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GOOD PRACTICES:

TIP: Simply, just look at what some disruptive leaders are doing. Read interviews with them, follow their bold moves, invite one of them to your next annual corporate conference.

For example:

Brent Ericsson, the head of Ericsson’s Forsight Group (and ex Corporate R&D senior Vice president) :

www.ericsson.com/foresight/

HP President and CEO Carly Fiorina is workiong hard to disrupt the way this giant is doing business. www.trendscope.net/article.cfm?id=14

And the ultimate disrupter, Virgin’s Richard Branson

http://www.johnshepler.com/articles/branson.html

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Embracing risk, tolerating failures (I)

WHY: Innovative organisations promote risk taking. Innovation requires learning of new things, experimentation, and pushing the boundaries of the unknown. The leaders of such organisations invite and reward (clever) risk taking, and do not punish mistakes. Failures are taken as golden learning opportunities.

ASK YOURSELF: How does your company handle risk?What is the current biggest hi-risk project in the company R&D portfolio? How does your company handle failures? What happened to the people responsible to big failures?Did the company extract any value for failures? How?How many products failed, in the last 3 years?


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Read this: www.winstonbrill.com/bril001/html/article_index/articles/51-100/article55_body.html

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Story time

John, a young, brilliant and hi-flying professional, was hired by BLG Inc. to run the company’s most important project. It becomes a spectacular failure in 24 months and causes in huge loses. John enters the CEO’ office:

John: I assume full responsibility for this failure, and resign.

CEO: Are you crazy? I just invested 20 Million dollars in your business education and you want to run away?

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Embracing risk, tolerating failures (II)

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Establish a process for after-action reviews. Make sure it is constructive. No finger-pointing; rather, learning from mistakes and extracting lessons learned.

Announce a special prize for the big failure of the year.

Allocate specific percentage of the R&D budget to hi-risk projects (“at least x%”).

Prefer many small hi-risk investments over few big ones.

In a British University, a final exam question on Business was: “Define what risk is".The shortest answer ever at one word was : "This."The student handed the essay in and got 100%.

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Embracing risk, tolerating failures (II)

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." ~ Albert Einstein

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie. ~ Johann von Goethe

Love truth, but pardon error. ~ Franחois Voltaire

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. ~ Pearl S. Buck

When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown. ~ Hugh Prather

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.~ Edwin Land

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. ~ Igor Stravinsky

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.~ Thomas Carlyle

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Incentives, Recognition, Rewarding (I)

WHY: Creative people are self-motivated. However, all innovation researchers, leaders and practitioners agree that rewarding innovation can contribute to its success. There is an open dispute about the appropriate mechanism to reward innovation. In some organisations, there are significant direct financial incentives related to the financial expected contribution of the innovation. Others believe that the softer ways are preferred: public recognition, attention from management, and symbolic signs of recognition.

ASK YOURSELF: How is creativity and innovativeness financially rewarded? How is it recognized? Are there any incentives for risk taking, disruptions and out-of-box thinking?How does the rewarding system reflect and contribute to deploying the company’s most important values?


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TIPS:

List the 5-10 core values and desired behaviours and competencies which are critical to long term success of your organisation.

And then…modify your rewarding system accordingly (For example: annual bonus is based on: 25% - ideas, creativity, risk taking, 30% proven success, 25% efforts and dedication, 20% - collaboration).

Don’t punish failures, punish inaction.

Several companies reward their best ideas contributors by letting them turn their ideas into reality (e.g. by inviting them to be actively involved in the development, or even to lead the new spin-off).

Even more powerful – give them a stake in the future success of the new product/service (e.g. options).

The top guy demonstrated interest in the professional and/or business aspects of an evolving disruptive idea is a good way to recognize it. Invite the contributor to a business lunch…

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Another opinion:

"If You Want

to Kill

Innovation,

Reward It!“

Alfie Kohn

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Add good practice Suton, Robert I (2002), “Weird Ideas that Work – 11.5 practices for Promoting, Managing and Sustaining Innovation”, Simon & Schuster Inc., New York

1. Hire “slow learners” (of the organizational code)

1.5 Hire people who make you uncomfortable, even those you dislike

2. Hire people you (probably) don’t need

3. Use job interviews to get ideas, not to screen candidates

4. Encourage people to ignore and defy their superiors and peers

5. Find some happy people, and get them to fight

6. Rewards success and failures, punish inaction

7. Decide to do something that will probably fail, then convince yourself and everyone else that success is certain

8. Think of some ridiculous or impractical things to do, then plan to do them

9. Avoid, distract and bore customers, critics and anyone who just wants to talk about money

10. Don’t try to learn anything form people who seem to have solved the problems you face

11. Forget the past, especially your company’s successes

11.5 weird ideas:Practices for promoting, managing, sustaining innovation

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Enabling Ecology and other tools – 1Linking Ecology and Idea Pipeline

Consider the following ecological aspects, when you

design, manage and use the Idea-Pipeline process and tool:1. TIME – how do you encourage employees to do spend time on contributing ideas or feed

backing to other's ideas, and make it a legitimate activity?

2. VIRTUAL SPACE –is the technological solution provides a friendly, accessible and fun environment?

3. LEADERSHIP – what is the role of the middle and top managers in turning IPL into a sustainable source of ideas? What should they do, and what the must not do?

4. DIVERSITY – how do you ensure that it is not only the wise guys from R&D that contribute ideas? What about service representatives? Customers? Pensioners?

5. ORGANISATION – plan carefully access rights. Is it preferable to provide access to all employees for all ideas categories, or to create departmental boundaries?

6. SKILLS – would basic training in creative thinking, disruptive innovation and similar techniques lead to better results? Can the “IPL champion” enter his/her role without specific training? What are the skills required for a productive “Idea Evaluator”?

7. RECOGNITION – how does the system and process provides appropriate recognition to contributors? Is there a need for financial incentives – and how to avoid the risks embedded in such incentives?

8. CHALLENGE: how do you increase the relevancy of the system, by ensuring that the real challenges of the organisation are addressed (tip: “call for ideas”).

9. STRATEGY: how do you ensure that many ideas do fit into the strategic framework of the company (BUT not all of them – some “out-of-strategy” ideas should be encouraged!).

10. MARKET SPACE: how do you increase the chance that good ideas will meet good resources (finance, complementary expertise, internal or external partners)?

11. VALUES: how do you ensure that your core organisational value (e.g. respect ot intellectual property, tolerance to failure, bias-to-action) are embedded& promoted by IPL?

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Learn more –part I Recommended internet

sites

www.InnovationEcology.com

http://www.workfrontiers.com

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~caveman/Creative/index2.html

http://www.whatif.co.uk/home.php

http://www.intrapreneur.com/

Recommend your favorite innovation site

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Learn more – part II Recommended publications

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Welcome


Human diversity

User guide

Knowledge space



11.5 weird idea…


Process vs. Chaos

Skills

Learn more

Introduction

Impact other tools

The 16 constructs

Action!

Add good practice

Welcome


Human diversity

User guide

Knowledge space



11.5 weird idea…


Process vs. Chaos

Skills

Learn more

Introduction

Impact other tools

The 16 constructs

Action!

Add good practice

From Insights into Action!You understand now what is “Enabling Innovation Ecology”, you have explored its constructs, you assessed that situation of your company/department/ yourself. What next?Now is time for ACTION. If you believe that some of those constructs can really make a different, do something about them. Launch a truly enabling ecology.

Here are some simple tips. As in any good implementation – all are based on common sense (+ scientific research into change management).

1. Identify which constructs are both important and easy to impact – and start with them.

2. Start small, using rapid prototyping and fast move from planning to implementation. Go for simple solutions.

3. Publish and celebrate small successes. They will provide the organisational energy and momentum for larger efforts.

4. Don’t do it all by yourself. Create a coalition of several effective people that are interested in the issue – and move forward with them.

5. Use the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle. Monitor what really happens, and correct the activity/process/system accordingly.

6. If you are not really high in the organisation ladder – try to recruit a sponsor.

7. What ever you do – try to link it to systems/processes/mechanisms which are already well established in the organisation. It will streamline things.

8. Be sensitive to constraints such as the existing organisational culture – don’t try to enforce processes which are not confronts real constraints.

9. Learn from others – within and outside the organisation. Steal ideas with prise. Use the best practices in this document. Visit others to see how they deal with the constructs of innovation- enabling ecology.

Welcome


Human diversity

User guide

Knowledge space



11.5 weird idea…


Process vs. Chaos

Skills

Learn more

Introduction

Impact other tools

The 16 constructs

Action!

Add good practice

Welcome


Human diversity

User guide

Knowledge space



11.5 weird idea…


Process vs. Chaos

Skills

Learn more

Introduction

Impact other tools

The 16 constructs

Action!

Add good practice

Welcome


Human diversity

User guide

Knowledge space



11.5 weird idea…


Process vs. Chaos

Skills

Learn more

Introduction

Impact other tools

The 16 constructs

Action!

Add good practice

Add a good practiceDo you know of a good Innovation-Ecology practice which you discovered

in your own organisation, or perhaps saw in another company?Please share it with us, so we can add it to the knowledge-base.

Submit

Your name:_____________________________

Ecology Construct: ___________________________

Good-practice location: _______________________________________________

Contact person (optional): _____________________________________________

Description:______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

How this might be implemented in our company?:__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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