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ONE HOLISTIC FRAMEWORK
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Strategy
Process
Organization
Resources
Culture
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INNOVATION STRATEGY?
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Innova-
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Strategy
1. What’s your goal?
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2. A) How much investment? From where?
B) When?
C) Who?
3. Define & select your opportunities
(strategic innovation area’s)
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New &
Existing
Markets
Trends
• Technology
• Need
• Business
• Legal
Innovation
challenges
Dev
Projects to obtain
understanding of
• Technology
• Customer Need
• Business
Internal &
External Ideas
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Strategy
Idea
selection
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INNOVATION & DELIVERY PROCESS
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Mark
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challe
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Dev
Projects
Strate
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• Experimentation
• Agile
• Linked to Strategy
• Execution
• Portfolio
• Funding based on
Gate approval
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ORGANIZATION
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Explore Exploit
Ambidextrous Open Innovation
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RESOURCES
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Right person,
Right job
Individuals Project Teams
Diversity
Leadership
Vision, listening
& advice
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COMPANY CULTURE
Wikipedia: “Organizational culture is the collective
behavior of humans who are part of an organization
and the meanings that the people attach to their
actions. Culture includes the organization values,
visions, norms, working language, systems,
symbols, beliefs and habits.”
Deal and Kennedy (1982) defined organizational
culture as the way things get done around here
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COMPANY CULTURE
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Which behavior is present in your company, not allowed to happen, but
nobody knows why?
The Monkey Experiment
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COMPANY CULTURE
Some company mindsets (not invented here, our
quarterly results, ...) do not go along with an
Innovative culture
Mindsets are stuck in companies/people while the
world around you changes
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Mistakes Insights+Innovation =
Sole focus of
most
companies
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INNOVATIVE COMPANY CULTURE
Characteristics of Innovative Company Culture
Encourages being open
Allows interactions
Ecourages ‘different’ people to collaborate
Accept failures
Manages Risks
Learns
Shares know-how and experiences with each other
Explores new things
Embraces entrepreneurship
…
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INNOVATIVE COMPANY CULTURE
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Several possible levers to redefine company culture
Attitudes vs
Risks
Communication &
Know-how sharing
Working environment Metrics & KPIs
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Development
Programs
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DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
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Common
Language
Practical Tools
Offer ongoing
coaching
Externally
oriented
mindset
Inquisitive
mindset
Integrative
mindset Opportunity
driven mindset
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ATTITUDE TOWARDS RISKS
Fail?!
Key
Not all ideas become successfull project
ok to fail
Ensure organization draws learnings
mistakes are ok, hiding them not!
Stop projects early and fast if you don’t
see value
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ATTITUDE TOWARDS RISKS
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Apple Messagepad - 1993
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ATTITUDE TOWARDS RISKS
Encourage Your Team to Take More Risks by being
explicit about what risk-taking really means:
Define smart risk. Distinguish the areas where risk is
encouraged, and where it is not. For example, you want
minimal “execution risk” regarding customer
commitments, but more “discovery risk” in developing
new solutions to customer problems.
Use the right words. Terms like “experiment” or
“scouting mission,” as opposed to “successful vs.
unsuccessful project,” signal a more open attitude
toward risk.
Establish clear phases for funding projects. Stop
providing blank checks and work in defined phases (with
approvals needed)
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COMMUNICATION & KNOW-HOW SHARING
If you stop/change direction of an initiative, which
organization stops to
Study learning that drove that decision
Celebrate opportunity to redirect resources in more
promising direction
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COMMUNICATION & KNOW-HOW SHARING
Which organization praises people who fail for the
right reasons?
Identify roadblocks early on before the company has
invested significant sums
Have the guts to say that too much learning is needed
before value ambition level is met
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COMMUNICATION & KNOW-HOW SHARING
Communicate!
Home work, but for Innovation?
Formally and informally
Sharing of experiences and know-how
(incl failures)
Online tools
Face-2-face
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WORK ENVIRONMENT
Work environment is also crucial
element
Helps you thinking out-of-the box
Dedicated spaces
Both individually and even more important,
in groups
Creative room!?
Or at least out-of-the box sessions/spaces
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WORK ENVIRONMENT
Dedicated Spaces allows team to be
Inspired by imagery from the field
Immersed in their post-it notes
Able to track progress of Innovation project
Better having 2 different office environments
(exploitation & exploration) than to ask team to switch
context in same environment
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WORK ENVIRONMENT
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Office space designed to collaborate
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METRICS & KPIS
How do you need to reward your best Innovators?
Metrics & KPI’s determine your goal
(communicated or not)
Several possible ways
Input driven: %budget spent on new innovations, #ideas
generated, ...
Output driven: customer satisfaction, revenues new
products/services, ...
Culture: #employees recognized for innovative work,
%time leaders spent on Innovation, ...
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METRICS & KPIS
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Unique career
opportunities
Public
recognition
Financial (but
intrinsic still
better)
Opportunity to
learn
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INNOVATIVE COMPANY CULTURE
Status Quo Culture Innovative Culture
Predictability Un-predictability
Seek stability Seek novelty
Focus on core competence Focus on edge competence
Reinforce organizational hierarchy Reinforce organizational networks
High success rate High failure rate
Avoid surprises Embrace surprises
Accept things as they are Ask tough questions
Extend the status quo Abandon the status quo
Senior managers have critical knowledge Everyone has critical knowledge
Look for certainty Embrace ambiguity
Protect the past Create the future
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CHANGE INNOVATIVE COMPANY CULTURE
Creating an Innovative Company Culture is a
Change Management trajectory
Change management is a systematic approach to
dealing with change both from the perspective of an
organization and the individual.
Identify and involve your change agents
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DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION
EXPERIENCES FROM OTHERS
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Biggest video rental company
Pay per video
Based on mailing DVDs
Netflix founder Reed Hastings asked himself, “Why can’t you sell movies like
Amazon sells books?” while fuming over the fees he had incurred from his late
return of Apollo 13 to Blockbuster
Hastings combined Amazon’s book-selling approach with gym membership fee
Model and streaming movie & movie suggesting technologies
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EXPERIENCES FROM OTHERS
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How can I make high-quality coffee drinks more enjoyable?
Inspiration by observing Italians from all walks of life enjoying
Espresso at their local watering holes
Roasting & packing business -> Howard Schultz was
sent to Italy as employee to scout equipment
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FUTURE INSPIRATION?
3 basic rules
1. Reserve time
2. Get out of the door/office/mindset/….
3. Do something with it (if you feel it's relevant)
Additionally: experiment (outside work) sometimes
with something new
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Strategy
Process
Organization
Resources
Culture
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FRANK DETHIER
My professional passions
Help people and companies change to Innovation & Growth
Guide young companies/start-ups to sustainable growth
Act as Change Agent in Company Board
Can you help me? Of course
Contacts & Opportunities
Recommendations
...
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YOUR NEW ROLE
INNOVATION MANAGER
Building innovation capabilities
Developing the competencies and capacities to innovate
Creating breakthrough strategies
Developing new business models
Finding opportunities for innovation and new growth
Catalytic thinking
Knowing the emerging, leading and best practice of innovation
Recognizing innovation lifecycle management
Accelerating and bringing change
Enhancing the quality of inventive intellectual thinking
Strengthening the collaborating effect
Building innovation resources
Leading clearly for innovation
Long-term innovation
See more at: http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2012/01/27/chief-
innovation-officer-checklist/
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