Innovation Diamond

Cris Popp

Description

Innovation is just 4&1/2 steps away!

Would you like to:
* solve problems
* exploit opportunities
* create new ideas, and
* innovate?

Do you need to lead a team, organisation or yourself to be more innovative?

This book is a diamond - an Innovation Diamond. In 4.5 steps it will help you, your team and your organisation:
* streamline your processes
* invent whole new products
* find new ways to market
* overcome long-standing challenges
* succeed
* grow
* enjoy the creative process

Cris Popp has been teaching innovation and leading innovation efforts since 2004. He's run hundreds of innovation workshops, and worked with dozens of organisations to develop their innovation strategy..
His workshops, seminars, and keynote speeches are highly acclaimed.

Sujets

• Business Development
• Economics
• Development
• Business

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 21 décembre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781456623340
• Langue: English

Extrait

THE INNOVATION DIAMOND ©
A GUARANTEED FIVE STAGE PROCESS TO:
SOLVE PROBLEMS
EXPLOIT OPPORTUNITIES
CREATE IDEAS
AND INNOVATE
FOR INDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS
 
CRIS POPP

 
 
Innovation Diamond.
First Published 2012.
Copyright © 2014 Cris Popp.
Book and cover design: Ingrid Horton
Published in eBook format by eBookIt.com
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-2334-0
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M PO Box 12404, A’Beckett St. Melbourne, Vic 8006, Australia.
Based on original and public domain written material. You’re holding in your hands, many years of experience and many hours of writing and editing. I take a very dim view of copyright infringement and plagiarism — but I know you wouldn’t do that.
All rights reserved. This publication is licensed and must not be reproduced, photocopied, stored and/or distributed wholly or in part in soft or hard copy in any way shape or form without the express written permission of the author.

INNOVATION IS JUST 5 STEPS AWAY!
WOULD YOU LIKE TO:
• solve problems
• exploit opportunities
• create new ideas, and
• innovate?
DO YOU NEED TO LEAD A TEAM, ORGANISATION OR YOURSELF TO BE MORE INNOVATIVE?
This book is a diamond - an Innovation Diamond © . In five steps it will help you, your team and your organisation:
• streamline your processes
• invent whole new products
• find new ways to market
• overcome long-standing challenges
• succeed
• grow
• enjoy the creative process
“ ... extremely well presented and very relevant to my work” Melanie McDonald, WW Logistics
Cris Popp has been teaching innovation and leading innovation efforts since 2004. He’s run hundreds of innovation workshops, and worked with dozens of organisations to develop their innovation strategy.
His workshops, seminars, and keynote speeches are highly acclaimed:
“We got the Managing Director to sign-off on an outcome immediately which is fantastic ... we’ve got total engagement of the people” Al Kalvaitis, GM, Multi Slide Industries
See more at www.crispopp.com or contact Cris:
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E [e-mail]
W www.crispopp.com/innovation
M PO Box 12404, A’Beckett St. Melbourne, Vic 8006, Australia.
RUN A BRILLIANT INNOVATION PROCESS, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, IN ANY ORGANISATION OR SETTING. FIND OUT HOW IN THIS BOOK!
INCLUDES A FREE CONSULTATION WITH THE AUTHOR. SEE INSIDE FOR DETAILS.
UNLEASH THE CREATIVITY OF YOUR TEAM


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CRIS POPP
Organisations hire Cris to help them be more innovative — whether that means developing new products, streamlining processes, beating the competition, creating a positive culture or just being able to do more with less.
He first studied lateral thinking techniques at “the world’s oldest thinking club” in Richmond, Melbourne in the 1990s, before going on to write his first innovation strategy and completing his thesis on innovation, in 2004, at Deakin University.
He has helped many organisations, both in the public and private sector, create their innovation strategies, develop a culture of innovation and build their skill and capacity for ideation — from conception through to commercialisation.
Clients consider Cris’ solutions to be unique, effective, practical, and results-oriented.
He uses a wide range of decision-making and problem solving skills — a session with Cris is highly engaging and productive.
He is available to help you with strategic issues, professional development, workshops and mentoring. Based in Melbourne, Australia, he travels widely throughout Australia and Asia Pacific, spreading PoPP — “Power of Positive Performance”.
ABOUT THE BOOK
You’re holding in your hands, the result of:
• 15 years experience.
• an innovation thesis.
• a master’s degree.
• more than 100 workshops.
• a thorough methodology.
• postgraduate teaching in innovation.
• highly developed facilitation skills.
• the preparation of dozens of organisational innovation strategies.
• in-depth reading and research.
• participation in expert groups.
• insight and discussion with the leaders of many organisations regarding innovation.
With it you’ll be able to undertake innovation workshops — and take your own innovation to a whole new level. Go forth and create :-)
INTRODUCTION
WHY DOES INNOVATION MATTER?
Besides surviving into the future, the most innovative firms have much higher rates of return, 30 - 80% higher, than less innovative organisations. Here’s 7 more reasons to innovate:
7. Competitive advantage
6. Because cost-cutting is not enough any more
5. Higher revenues
4. Improve performance
3. Take advantage of opportunity
2. Better returns (business, societal, financial, personal)
1. Survival!
Simply working faster or harder or being more efficient will only go so far — what is really needed are fresh ideas to meet increasing consumer, business, political and social demands.
“When the pace of change inside the organisation is slower than outside the end is nigh”
WHAT DOES INNOVATION MEAN?
“Innovation in organisations is a series of processes that are designed and managed to create and apply ideas and knowledge, directed at creating and capturing value, and leading to new and different products, policies, processes, technologies, ventures and business systems” ( Bubner 2002 )
or more simply:
“innovation = idea + implementation → to create value”
BENEFITS OF INNOVATION
The benefits of innovation include:
• increased incidence of innovative ideas, policy and products.
• keeping up with rapid change.
• better quality solutions:
• more comprehensive.
• longer lasting.
• increased likelihood of success.
• greater exploration of alternatives within the organisation.
• increased support from stakeholders for proposals.
• greater responsiveness to emerging issues.
The bottom-line of innovation is this:
It is impossible to compete solely on the basis of lower-cost or superior quality because these can always be copied.
Only your latest idea will put you in front — and with a stream of new ideas, you can always keep ahead of the pack.
Continuous innovation is the only form of sustainable competitive advantage ( Porter and Stern, 2002 ).
THE INNOVATIVE ORGANISATION
While you can’t just ‘command’ your people to be innovative, you can create a productive, creative culture, remove impediments and build structures and processes to aid innovation. Chief amongst these is a clear model for ‘ideation’ - how do you develop an idea from initial concept to project start-up? The Innovation Diamond © , is such a model. It is highly intuitive and clients have found it to be very effective.
You also need a way to “encourage, collect, and vet ideas”, good leadership, a supportive climate, networks, external scanning and ways to measure your success and keep on track.
NINE ASPECTS OF AN INNOVATIVE ORGANISATION
1. ‘Ideation’ — a clear process for developing ideas, such as The Innovation Diamond © (ID).
2. Reward and recognition that encourages ideas.
3. A process for collecting and vetting ideas.
4. A framework for managing resources and prioritising projects.
5. Leadership — setting a strategic vision and encouraging innovations around that vision. Treating mistakes as learning opportunities, empowering staff.
6. A supportive climate — flexibility, a culture that encourages experimentation, teamwork and diversity and gives appropriate rewards, training and tools.
7. Coherent strategies that don’t impede innovation.
8. External scanning — seeking and responding to opportunities and stimulus in the external environment.
9. Measure and maintain — tracking progress and improving the stream of ideas and the innovation process.
STRATEGY
It is clear that organisations that succeed with innovation, have clear and deliberate strategies. Why does this make a difference? Because one of the biggest impediments to innovation is ‘business-as-usual (BAU)’. In my 15 years of working with organisations around innovation, a consistent reason for not being innovative is that business-as-usual gets in the way. The daily pressure, to produce goods and services, to ‘get things done’ interferes with the opportunity for innovation.