CCAT’s GroundUp Seminar

1. CCAT’s GroundUp Seminar March, 2010

2. Power Up your Innovation & Networks With Gusto! Developed and Delivered by Don Mroz, Ph.D., and Doug Brown, J.D.

3. Agenda Welcome, Agenda and Purpose/Objectives Introductions & Identification of Issues Working Smarter! Power up your Innovation & Networks ! Q & A Wrap-Up

4. Session Purpose/Objectives Session Purpose: To explore new ways to Innovate and enhance Innovation Networks • Identify keys to developing and making the most of critical relationships. • Explore how different types of people create and innovate, and why it matters. • Examine & Discuss new approaches to creativity and Innovation. • Identify ways to build your own innovation network(s). • Identify methods to building a healthy entrepreneurial culture! • Gain a fresh perspective on risk! Session Objectives

5. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results! Albert Einstein A student in Einstein’s class… "The questions of this year's exam are the same as last years!" "True," Einstein said, "but this year all answers are different."

6. Introductions 1. Name 2. Organization & brief statement of what makes your organization special? 3. One sentence on why you are here?

7. Six Essentials for Powering Up! • Developing & Utilizing Relationships • People Create & Innovate from their value • Approaches to Creativity & Innovation • Innovation Networks (look everywhere) • Risk is a pre-requisite • It’s the Environment Stupid (Culture)!

8. 1. Developing & Utilizing Relationships Surround yourself with Experts • Who do you need in your inner circle, and why? • What would your outer circle look like? And, when do you use it? • What advice and expertise do you need? • What are your unknowns re: products, services, markets, etc.? • How do you initiate, maintain and utilize your network? • What are your unique pressing problems?

9. 2. People Innovate from their value The Competing Values Framework aka The Innovation Genome All Rights reserved to Competing Values http://competingvalues.com/

10. 3. Approaches to Creativity & Innovation Developed by Jeff DeGraff at Competing Values

11. 4. Innovation Networks Build and Enlist Your Innovation Network Innovation Networks Navi Radjou

12. Risk Radical Risk BIF Innovation 5. Risk is a pre-requisite How Innovation Works and Doesn’t

13. 6. Management Innovation (Culture)! • Adaptable, innovative, inspiring and socially responsible. • Slay the Dragons together. • Open Organizations. • Reduce fear and increase trust. • Expand and exploit diversity of experiences. • Think like a hacker! • Share the work of setting direction. • Create a democracy of information.

14. What Questions Might you have? Thanks in advance!