InnoVate

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BARRIERS

• Politics

• Hierarchies - organisational structure used to suppress ideas
• Not invented here

• No expressed purpose for the organisation
• Too many ideas - lack of prioritisation / filtering
• Short management attention span
• Ring-fencing innovation (eg only the research group can innovate)
• Short-term funding
• Employees have no slack time
• Employees given inappropriate or too many tasks
• Deliberate hiring of uncreative people (eg military)
• Lack or reward structure (not necessarily financial)

SOLUTIONS

• Establish a company culture that encourages the discussion and propagation of new ideas

• Requires lead from the top
• Middle-managers are encouraged to take (some) risks (allowed to fail sometimes)
• Clear statement of the enterprise’s purpose, values, and goals

• Address management fear of

• risk taking
• slack

• Hire innovative, motivated people and trust them
• Give them an environment that structure the slack

• For example, use slack to research new stuff and present it to other employees

BARRIERS

• Integration with HW & Mech
• Time needed for product level quality
• Pet Projects
• defined idea important channels
• No motivation, no ideas
• Short term thinking
• Lack of integration between research, development and marketing
• Tsaying in a known solution space / business space
• Fear of change
• Stable teams (for decades)
• FEAR
• Lack of idea management / coimmunication channels
• Management culture of planning and control
• success in business
• too early judgement of ideas
• time pressure
• lack of knowledge about innavation process (teaching)
• idea that innovation doesn’t need structure

SOLUTIONS

• Anonymous channels for submitting ideas and discussing
• Incentives for idea adopters
• slack time (for those who demands it)
• Traiuning in idea generation / structuring
• Think and create together sessions
• Lifecyfcle management: prioties, decisions and consequences
• artificial turnover (people changing projects)
• sticking to ideas that are not yet ready
• company within a company (organization lifecycle)
• lateral promotion - innovative career paths
• multiple careers - sabbatical year
• travel - looking to different cojpmanies, cultures and countries
• personal integrity, trust (buzzwords for people stuff)
• customer and supplier co-research

BARRIERS

• Rules
• Commercial Pressure
• Conservatiskm culture
• Legacy
• ceremony
• conform innovation to standard template - justification
• lack of free time
• filtering / translation
• category barriers
• reward system
• $ 2 E

SOLUTIONS

• Grass roots

• Extroiverted self promotion
• interest group - bulletin board / user group liaison
• covert ops - for momentum
• share - collective ownership
• publish anonymously with encrypted signature
• socialization - company pub

• Company sanctioned

• Gold cards - sanctioned slack
• pain innovator with juystifier
• parton - officer of company
• pre-acceptance anonymity
• separate - innovation / legacy - skunkwors
• cross fertilization
• communication matrix
• futurist role
• conference / workshop/tuition/fee allowance
• periodic vision revisting

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