Can Innovation Labs Save The World?

Reinvented Organisation:

Can Innovation Labs save

the world?

11th February

2016

paul Taylor (aka @paulbromford)

Innovation Coach

@BromfordLab/@bromford

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* = no chance , but stick with the slides

The Adapt or Die Era

Declining consumer trust

Heightened service expectation

Increased demand/Reduced Income

Pervasive and cheap technology

Government scrutiny

Heightened expectations of transparency

A digital leadership deficit

We need cultures of innovation

but do they actually exist?

The optimum conditions for innovation

are actually:

A very committed executive team (rare)

or

A burning platform where your very

survival is at stake (rarer)

how managers spend their week

emails meetings commuting

16 hours 7 hours28 hours

Time for radical thinking is a scarce resource

how to kill creativity

Hierarchy Restrictive Job Profiles Over complication

Silo working Lack of resources Reports and approvals

how to build innovation (stop doing all of this)

Hierarchy Restrictive Job Profiles Over complication

Silo working Lack of resources Reports and approvals

creativity requires nurturing

creativity

requires a safe

place to

explore radical

ideas

Things we’ve learned from

setting up

AN INNOVATION LAB

Subliminal message from our sponsor:

You can have access to our minds for just £2500 for

12 months. You get mentoring on how to set up your own

Lab/approach to innovation plus access to our tools

and other cool stuff. Speak to Paul or Dm him

@paulbromford. We won’t tell anyone

the world of bromford

we are here This is called innovating at

the edge

There’s some science to it

as well - it’s a lot easier

to change 20% of your

organisation by 80% than

bring about 20% of change

on the 80%

PERMISSION TO FAIL IS PERMISSION TO THINK BIG

WE HAVE AN ALLOWABLE FAILURE RATE OF 70%

70% OF CHANGE PROGRAMMES FAIL

68% OF IT PROJECTS FAIL

TEST MORE IMPLEMENT LESS

SMALL TEAMS WIN

WE BUILD ON MINIMUM VIABLE PRINCIPLES

INNOVATION DISPERSAL

WE CALL THIS SQUAD

WORKING

WORKING OUT LOUD IS THE NEW TRANSPARENCY

Globally we are all trying to solve the same problems — yet most of our organisations keep their successes and failures behind closed doors.

Lab Feedback: I dread to think how much money Bromford has wasted on this ridiculous exercise. I would think our customers would be delighted to know how we spend their money ʺinnovatingʺ!

YOU CAN’T TAKE EVERYONE WITH YOU

Place your screenshot here

INNOVATION IS ABOUT IMPACT

NOT IDEAS

WIN ARGUMENTS

BY SHOWING NOT TELLING

PEOPLE RUSH TO

SHINY AND SEXY TECH

SOLUTIONS

BETTER SERVICE DESIGN TRUMPS IT

EVERY TIME

systems work best if they

are kept simple rather

than made complicated;

simplicity should be a key

goal in design and

unnecessary complexity

should be avoided.

#KISS

Problem

definition

12 weeks max

Coaching

Think 10x bigger

prototype

Test

Evaluate

Fail?

Prepare exit

resource for

scale

THE 84 DAY CHALLENGE

1: Hack your hierarchy

2: innovate from the

edge

3: disperse innovation

4: make everyone a

potential disruptor

THE FOUR STEP PLAN

the world outside planet housing

we are here

Digital gives our

generation an

unprecedented opportunity

to join this up around

people

straits of social care

People’s Republic of Health

bay of education

ocean of think tanks

Innovators ,

Entrepreneurs, startups

our challenge

is to become more networked, more

social and more agile

digital leadership requires a

metamorphosis not incremental change

thanks!

Paul Taylor

[email protected] @paulbromford@bromfordlab

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