Title: Innovation Matters Through the Eyes of a Career Management Consultant
1Innovation Matters Through the Eyes of a Career
Management Consultant
- Steve Harrison
- Chairman, Lee Hecht Harrison
2WHY ME?
3As Career Management Consultants
- Were observers of corporate cultures ...
especially leadership - We handle the people impact of innovation
- Job creation
- Job change
- Job loss
4Innovate (Websters Dictionary)
- To make changes, to do something in a new way.
- From ancient French word Innovacyon
renewal, or a new way of doing things. - So
- Its not just inventing the next big thing
5Innovations GiftCreating Need!(Sometimes when
need doesnt really exist!)
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7Lessons from the Dry Cereal Shelf!
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10Innovations Role in Job Creation
- Need Creation Product Variation
- Demand Stimulation Supply Expansion
- Resource Expansion Jobs Expansion
11Innovation is a Business Imperative
- The basis for
- Competitive advantage
- Growth
- Productivity
- Some companies get it
- and some dont
12Companies that Dont Get It
- Dont include innovation in their values
- Are tolerant of the NIH syndrome
- Resist a failure-tolerant culture
- Dont install a system-wide process of idea
management - Dont budget resources for innovation
13Companies that Dont Get It
- Dont build diversity and collaboration into the
process - Dont sustain innovation endeavor
- Dont walk the think-outside-the-box talk
- Are not creative around reward, recognition
celebration - Dont value innovation in leadership
14Companies that Get It
- Ensure a sustained
- innovation process culture
- The Trick
- Institutionalize Innovation
15Clues to Innovative Companies
- Do they
- Communicate innovation as a cultural and
strategic priority? - Create a failure-tolerant environment?
- Protect innovators from bureaucracy?
- Provide psychic income?
- Encourage innovation during the good times? (If
it aint broke, break it.)
16Clues to Innovative Companies
- Do they
- Kill the mindset that innovation is only about
inventing the Next Big Thing? - Build a culture where there is no such thing as a
bad idea? - Start small keep it simple? Peter Drucker
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19Clues to Innovative Companies
- Do they
- Kill the mindset that innovation is only about
inventing the Next Big Thing? - Build a culture where there is no such thing as a
bad idea? - Keep it focused keep it simple? Peter Drucker
- Value diversity collaboration?
- Make it fun?
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21Creativity Culture
Corporate culture The playing field of
innovation
22Global Innovation Leaders The Worlds Top
Innovators
- Honeywell
- Toyota
- Samsung
- Nestle
- Kimberly Clark
- Microsoft
- Medtronic
- Canon
- Merck
- Speedo
- Nokia
23Innovative Innovators!
- Bose Reinvests 100 earnings into innovation
- Williams Sonoma Customer Care Centers
- Kraft Creates annual innovation budgets
- Bristol-Meyers Squibb Conducts ideathons
- Polaroid Creativity Labs
- Franklin Covey Collaboration Rooms
- Gore-Tex Innovation Democracy
24Innovative Innovators!
- Whirlpool Mandatory course on innovation
- Dupont Center for Creativity and Innovation
- Microsoft Microsoft Research
- Airco Conducts Brainstorms
- IDEO Consultants in the Art of Innovation
- The Body Shop DODGI (Department of
Damned Good Ideas)
25Beyond Caprice Serendipity Failure as the
Mother of Invention!
- Post-It Notes
- Jacuzzi
- Champagne
- Urethane Sponge
26Beyond Caprice Serendipity Failure as the
Mother of Invention!
- Post-It Notes
- Jacuzzi
- Champagne
- Urethane Sponge
- Viagra
27Building a Bridge Between the Workplace of the
Future Our Underprepared Workforce
- Mandatory core course Navigating the New World
of Work - More live exposure to the corporate world
- Early skills assessments
- Internships co-op programs
- States Partner with, reward, and publicize
the most innovative companies
28LEADERSHIP
29Innovation Like Nailing Jello to the Wall!
- but
- We still need a Declaration of Innovation
- to
- Harvest the Invisible Intelligence
- and to
- Seek the Beneficial Surprise
30To Avoid This
- A banker to Thomas Edison
- Get that _at_! toy out of my office!
31HAPPY NEW YEAR!
- Heres to an Innovative 2005!