Innovation, Creativity and the Maker Movement: A Hands-On Workshop

Mark STEWART President & chief innovation officer

Innovation, Creativity and the Maker Movement: A Hands-On Workshop

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@mechastewart | @wondermakr

QUESTIONING1

OBSERVING2

NETworking3

THE PROCESS OF INNOVATION: 5 KEY SKILLS

EXPERIMENTING4

ASSOCIATING5


WE’LL TALK ABOUT SOME CREATIVE TECH AS WELL. THAT’S WHAT I DO.


AND, WE WiLL BUILD SOMETHING.


ABOUT MEBOTH OF THEM @mechastewart | @wondermakr


TRIED AND TRUE: THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.

#IFCADC | #INNOVATION

INVOLVE YOUR FANS. OWN YOUR OWNED MEDIA.



make it connected. EXTEND THE EXPERIENCE.



the INNOVATION APPROACH. AKA: “MAKEITING"

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• INTERNET OF THINGS

• MICROCONTROLLERS/ARDUINO

• SOCIAL VENDING

• 3D PRINTING

• RFID/NFC/BLE

• ROBOTICS

• SMART INSTALLATIONS

• INTELLIGENT RECOGNITION

• INTERACTIVE GAMES

• CUSTOM APPLICATIONS


CREATE SOMETHING NEW. SURPRISE AND DELIGHT.


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A MAKER’S PERSPECTIVE: AIR MILES SMILE BOOTH


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MAKING MAKES US HUMAN

THE MAKER MOVEMENT MANIFESTO

DO IT TOGETHER

PLAY, PARTICIPATE, SUPPORT

SHARE YOUR SUCCESS, GIVE BACK


LET’S MAKE SOMETHING



PUSH PIN BATTERY HOLDER LED BATTERY


PLACE BATTERY HOLDER ON BADGE


MARK WITH PUSH PIN


REPEAT FOR OTHER SIDE


PUSH PIN THROUGH THE BADGE


SAME WITH THEOTHER SIDE


FIND THE NEGATIVE LED WIRE HINT: THE SHORT ONE (“Not as long’)


BEND LED WIRES OUT TO SIDES


BEND AT RIGHT ANGLE TO HOLE MARKINGS


INSERT INTO BADGE


FIND NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE ON BATTERY HOLDER


INSERT BATTERY HOLDER ONTO CORRECT WIRES


BEND WIRES OUT TO HOLD ONTO THE BADGE


INSERT BATTERY


LIGHT UP YOUR NETWORKING


THE PROCESS OF INNOVATION


START EVERYTHING WITH “WHY?”












EVOLUTION

GENES EXPERIENCE

CURRENT ORGANISM CURRENT SITUATION

CURRENT BEHAVIOUR


IQ TEST RESULTS FOR GENERAL INTELLIGENCE FOR TWINS AGED 15-22:


80-85% of their performance IS related to genetics.


CREATIVITY TEST RESULTS FOR FOR TWINS AGED 15-22:


30% of their performance IS related to genetics.


ROUGHLY 70% of innovation AND CREATIVITY skills are learned.


Question the unquestionable. Why? Why not? How? What if? What is? Avoid question with yes/no answers.

QUESTIONING1

Customers, products, services and processes of your company, your competition and others.

OBSERVING2

Talk with people who don’t look, act or think like you already do. Diverse perspectives and experiences.

NETworking3

THE PROCESS OF INNOVATION: 5 KEY SKILLS

Try new experiences. Take apart products, processes and ideas. Test with pilots and prototypes.

EXPERIMENTING4

Finding connections and inspiration in seemingly unrelated people, places or things.

ASSOCIATING5

@mechastewart | @wondermakr33

INDIVIDUAL EXERCISE 10 IDEAS. 1 MINUTE.


TASK: DEVELOP A NEW PRODUCT



THE PROCESS OF INNOVATION SKILL #1:

QUESTIONING


QUESTION EVERYTHING.


ASK THE QUESTIONS YOU DON’T KNOW YOU DON’T KNOW.


WAKE UP EVERY DAY WONDERING WHAT YOU’RE DEAD WRONG ABOUT.


WHAT’S WORKING? WHAT’S NOT?

WHY?


the important and difficult job is never to find the right answer, it is to Find the right question

PETER DRUCKER, THE PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT

(1954)


HOW DO YOU FIND THE RIGHT QUESTION?


THE AVERAGE TEACHER ASKS 291 QUESTIONS EVERY DAY.


THE AVERAGE STUDENT AGED 6-18 ASKS 1 QUESTION PER ONE HOUR

CLASS PER MONTH.


PROBLEM: HOW DO WE GET STUDENTS

TO ASK MORE QUESTIONS IN CLASS?


DON’T TRY TO GIVE A SOLUTION. JUST ASK LOTS OF QUESTIONS.



OBSERVING




ACTIVELY WATCH CUSTOMERS



BE A TOURIST AT WORK


What’s meeting their needs? What’s not?

OBSERVE CUSTOMERS1 2

3 4Seriously, anything. Even useless things.

OBSERVE SOMETHING ONCE A DAY

Companies you like, start-ups, disruptive models.

OBSERVE COMPANIES

Slow down.

USE ALL OF YOUR SENSES

DEVELOPING OBSERVATION SKILLS



NETWORKING





IDEA NETWORKING

RESOURCE NETWORKING


DELIVERY-DRIVEN PEOPLE DISCOVERY-DRIVEN PEOPLE

WHY THEY NETWORK: RESOURCES ACCess resources sell themselves further careers

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WHO THEY TARGET PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKE THEM PEOPLE WITH SUBSTANTIAL RESOURCES, POWER, POSITION, INFLUENCE, ETC.

WHY THEY NETWORK: IDEAS LEARN New and surprising things gain new perspectives seek feedback

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WHO THEY TARGET people who are not like them experts and non-experts with very different backgrounds and perspectives


BE A TOURIST in real-life



List top 10 people you would talk with to refine and idea. How many are just like you? More than 1? Change the list.

EXPAND NETWORK DIVERSITY1

Bring in someone from a different background to chat on innovation challenges. Sit with your team with them.

INVITE AN OUTSIDER4

Take someone out from a different background for a meal at least once a week.

MEALTIME NETWORKING2

Find experts in different fields, business, divisions. Google + P&G did it.

CROSS-TRAIN with experts5

Try and make it to at least 1 or 2 conferences a year unrelated to your field.

UN-CONFERENCE3

IDEA NETWORKING - TIPS



EXPERIMENTING





EXPERIMENTING

TRY OUT NEWEXPERIENCES

TAKE APART PRODUCTS PROCESSES AND IDEAS

TEST IDEAS THROUGH PILOTS + PROTOTYPES

EXAMPLES: • SEE THE WORLD • WORK IN MULTIPLE

INDUSTRIES • Develop A NEW

SKILL

EXAMPLES: • DISASSEMBLE A

PRODUCT • VISUALLY MAP OUT

A PROCESS • DeCONSTRUCT IDEAS

EXAMPLES: • BUILD A PROTOTYPE • PILOT A NEW PROCESS • LAUNCH A NEW VENTURE

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Live somewhere new. Engage in new activities. Visit a museum. Go to the zoo alone.

CROSS PHYSICAL BORDERS1

Just because you can. See how it works, start at a thrift shop.

dissassemble a product4

Subscribe to a entirely new and different magazine, go down a Wikipedia rabbit hole,

CROSS INTELLECTUAL BORDERS2

Try something new, stray from your comfort zone.

pilot new ideas5

Local community courses, physical activity, school courses, job swap.

DEVELOP A NEW SKILL3

DEVELOP YOUR EXPERIMENTING SKILLS - TIPS



ASSOCIATING



@mechastewart | @wondermakr#IFCADC | #INNOVATION


Open a random Wikipedia article. How can this help solve my problem?

FORCE NEW ASSOCIATIONS1

Collect strange and wonderful things. Have them around you or accessible.

BUILD A CURIOSITY BOX4

Think of how another company would solve the problem.

TAKE ON A DIFFERENT PERSONA2

Substitute, combine, adapt, magnify, minimize, modify, put to other use, eliminate, reverse, rearrange.

SCAMPER!5

What if ____________ was more like ______________

GENERATE METAPHORS3

DEVELOP YOUR ASSOCIATING SKILLS - TIPS


Suggest ideas, participate, ask what can be done beyond the ordinary … do it together.

WORK WITH YOUR PARTNERS1

There’s a reason “I’ve never seen that before” can work. It because somebody tried to do it.

Don’T BE AFRAID TO EXPERIMENT2

Even the most innovative ideas have goals to meet.SET METRICS FOR EVERYTHING3

FINAL THOUGHTS AKA: HOW DO I APPLY ANY OF THIS STUFF TO WHAT I DO?

Try it in your own life. Everyone is a maker.MAKE STUFF4


QUESTIONS?

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