How to create an innovative culture

August 2016

How to create an innovative culture

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What’s something innovative you’ve seen recently?

What made it innovative?

How could that be applied to your work?

Innovation is everywhere

What does it take to create a highly innovative team?

Hub and Spoke

Futurist

Hackathon

R&D

Timesheet

STRUCTURAL APPROACHES(Source: Nils Vesk)

Hub and Spoke

Futurist Structure

Hackathon

R & D Structure

Timesheet Structure

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Insights Ideas Prototyping executing

Which one resonates?Why?

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OR COULD INNOVATION BE MADE

AS JUST PARTof the narrative?

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Culture Focus Structure

Business Unit Collaboration

Narrative

There once was a…

Curiosity

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Rituals

The best idea I have seen this week

Field Trips

UQ as Business As Usual

What’s your narrative?What do you reward at work?Long Service? OrMost improved innovation?

Insights & Investigation

Ideas & Ideation

Prototyping & Iteration

Connection & Contribution

Embedding a culture of innovation

Marketing & Commercialisation

CATCH - VISION – Narrative - Investigation – insights generation, research

HATCH – IQ – Curiosity - Ideation, ideas brainstorm, possible solutions

SCRATCH – BODY – Rituals - Iteration, rapid prototyping, test balloons

MATCH – EQ – Field Trips and Collaboration - Connection, who else do we need to include?

DISPATCH – UQ – Business as Usual - Commercialisation, marketing and measurement, sharing the story every 90 days

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Embedding a culture of innovation

LOVE A GOOD STORY – THE NARRATIVE

Customer service innovation – give all staff a budget of $1000 to delight a customer.

Average spend was $80

Mines recruitment campaign targeting female truck drivers because they discovered they looked after the trucks better.

Improved life of truck, less down time.

CSIRO – The New Faces of ScienceCSIRO has pulled seven of its brightest young scientists out of their labs and enlisted them in a campaign to recruit future thinkers, innovators, scientists and entrepreneurs.

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What could you innovate?Orientation?

Site induction?in the group to the others

– which means the LEADER

sets the mood!

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Emotional contagion

IS FIRST AND FOREMOST A NON-VERBAL PROCESS

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To repair a toxic workplace you have to approach ‘healing’ it through many forms of energy – and

importantly through EQ BODY LANGUAGE.

DID YOU KNOW?At any one time approximately 76% of employees are looking for a new job or

getting ready to walk out the door.

DISCUSSION

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