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Sparking and Leading Innovation

Sparking and Leading Innovation. Women’s Leadership Institute December 5-8, 2010. Kathryn J. Deiss ACRL Content Strategist kdeiss@ala.org. Photo by Tom Oliver. “Different is not always better but better is always different.” Rick Luce Emory University. Who is innovative?.

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Sparking and Leading Innovation

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  1. Sparking and Leading Innovation Women’s Leadership InstituteDecember 5-8, 2010 Kathryn J. DeissACRL Content Strategistkdeiss@ala.org Photo by Tom Oliver

  2. “Different is not always better but better is always different.”Rick LuceEmory University

  3. Who is innovative? Photo by kelsmith1992

  4. Creative Inventions Lightning Rounds - 60 seconds Create an invention using your card and someone else’s 2. Write it down on back of card 3. Find another person and repeat 4. Find another person and repeat

  5. “Innovation is the embodiment, combination, and/or synthesis of knowledge in novel, relevant, valued new products, processes, or services.”Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap

  6. The Adjacent Possible :a concept describing the power of combinatory connections/collisions Coined by scientist Stuart Kaufmann and cited in Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson

  7. More stuff on the table! Photo by Lucy Lou

  8. Innovations are those things that change the way we can do what we want to do • Innovation is disruptive • Innovation is both revolutionary and evolutionary • Society decides what is innovative

  9. Cornelis Drebbel and £20,000 (1624) • Societal readiness • Patterns of behavior • Political climate • Building the message

  10. Operate “just beyond the possible.” Source: Paul C. Light “Sustaining Innovation” Photo by Bee Skutch

  11. Barriers to innovation • Organizational age • Individual & group skills lacking • Desire for perfection • Risk aversion • Natural tensions & dichotomies Photo by remuz

  12. Sometimes you have to bust something up to achieve a breakthrough! Photo by moqub

  13. Prototyping: a new skill

  14. Prototyping • Observation of people & situations • Trials and tests • Three dimensional aspect • Inventive • Feedback loops

  15. “Quick prototyping is about acting before you have got the answers… Good prototypes don’t just communicate, they persuade.”Tom Kelley, IDEO

  16. What’s in a name? the GGNRA’s transformation by prototype From Golden Gate National Recreation AreatoGolden Gate National Parks Design by Michael Schwab

  17. Use the unexpected to your advantage Photo by yepperdoodle

  18. Photo by fixpert! Johnny Lee Chung:a case of unintended consequences http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/

  19. Think of an innovation in your department or institution. How could you create a prototype of some kind (physical, process, etc.) for this innovation? As a group share projects and do a quick idea sort on one of these situations(10 mins)

  20. Innovation Incubators Photo by Loensis

  21. Innovation incubators • Places - physical & virtual • Skills - play, ideating, prototyping • Practices - processes and tools • Technologies - emerging tools for delivering and testing services

  22. Planning an Innovation Incubator Use the planning handout to think through setting up an innovation incubator - let your imagination play! Discuss your planning thoughts with two other people in the room

  23. Some Final Thoughts • We need to seek intersections • We need to engage in trial and error and prototyping • We need to adopt multiple perspectives • We need to face into the outside world

  24. “The most successful people are those who are willing to give up their most successful strategies….”Richard Foster

  25. Thank you! Keep in touch!kdeiss@ala.org

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