Rethinking Creativity & Innovation

This is a Keynote presentation by Ben Rennie for the LiveWire 2011 ReShaping Governments Conference in Wollongong

By Ben Rennie | Director @ 6.2 | an innovation lab

Re-Thinking Creativity & Innovation & Play

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This is a snap shot on the work we do at 6.2. Its about cutting through noise.This image is also reflective of my mornings.

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Before we start... lets go back to the start!

1999 2013 20142001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011

My first company

Business wasn't easy

-$80K

Finally,Profit, Wage & 25 Staff

Loss Licence - Total Rebuild

A Corporation

Corporate Life & Work life balance Don't mix... Why?

6.2 on the up

6.2 Finding some balance

In a nice place...

6.2 starts here

This graph looks at my career over the past decade. Lots of highs, lots of lows. None more important than the other.

What is Innovation?

It’s about looking at people & seeing things from their viewpoint.Not your own.

Innovation is a business affair.It is the commercialisation ofan idea or a process.

What is Creativity?

Unlike many phenomena in science, there is no single authoritative perspective or definition of creativity. - Wikipedia

Creativity means not copying.- Paul Breen

We Need to Re-Think how we run our companies & organisations.

extrinsic intrinsic

We still work in organisations where we pay people bonuses based on results.

This dulls and blocks creativity.

Rewards narrow focus and concentrate the mind.

There is a mismatch between what science knows and companies do.

Rewarding people to solve complex problems doesn't solve the problem, it actually does the opposite.

Google Dan H. Pink

creativity. play

innovationgood ideas

1% Idea > 99% Execution.

It is about ACTION. Creating what you can not see.

It is about CONNECTION. Connecting to culture & humanity.

It is about DEVIATION. Forging new paths.

Hello

Why didn't I think of that?

I thought of that years ago, we just didn't have the money/ the timing wasn't right!

We hear this all too often.

For innovation to happen, for ideas to come to life, there needs to be a dramatic shift

in our mind set.

It is a whole new discipline.

Attitude | Awareness | Authenticity

Google “Neil Pasricha”

Just Buy this Book.

9 Lessons about innovation worth sharing.

Innovation starts at the top. Leaders need to create the vision and live the values.

1

Innovation can happen anywhere.

anyone can do it, but not everyone is good at it.

2 R&D?

Innovation is a Team Sport

Operating inside silo’s is deadly. Collaborate.

3

Innovation is never easy. But it is always possible.

Step by step. Project by Project.

4

Innovation relies on trust.

Listen to ideas

Reward Bravery

Embrace Risk

Learn from Failure

5

Define Your Measures of Success

Small ideas need room and time to grow.

6.

Just because it works for Google does not mean it will work for you. Create an innovation

culture that fits.

7

Don't let your environment define your strategy... Create a strategy that defines your environment!

More on that last point...

The Customer is not always right, but they do sit at the heart of all innovation.

8

Finally: Speed is Mission Critical

Fail EarlyFail Fast

Fail inexpensively

9

In the next 30 days, you can change the world by doing just 3 things.

Create SomethingInnovate your life. Simply view the world from someone else's viewpoint.

Share your ideas liberally

Simply view the world from someone else's viewpoint.

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