Vulcan - Leading with Innovation: Program Resources

Vulcan - Leading with Innovation: Program Resources

L EADING WITH I NNOVATION : P ROGRAM R ESOURCES Spring 2019

Unit 1: Innovation Basics Faculty: Dr. Al Segars

Introduction: Three aspects to define innovation: • Innovation as an outcome. • Innovation as a process. • Building an innovation tribe.

What is Innovation? • What have you seen that did NOT result in innovation? The Messiah Model is the idea that one person has a great idea to solve for innovation. • Innovation can be described as several people collaborating in a community to create great ideas. Innovation can be an accident. Innovation can be something new, novel and unique. Will need Leadership to pull people together for innovative ideas. • Example: Innovation of the banjo. Innovation as an Outcome: • Define the outcome for a project. There must be a goal line and a purpose. • Build a compelling vision. • Consistent recognition of unique opportunity. Innovation needs to happen all the time. Recognize innovation to lead, not follow, competitors. Find new opportunities (where, how, evaluate risk).

Innovation as a Process: • Give innovation boundaries. Example: Football field with no lines or goals. • Herb Simon and How We Make Decisions: o Intelligence. Gather, organize, distribute. o Design. What is possible? o Choice. Investing time and effort.

Building an Innovation Tribe: • Build a tribal aspect of a team with a greater purpose . • Tribes are built on:

o Ambition & winning o Driven by process o Powered by teams o Patience & perseverance o Guided by analytics o Always “on the march”

Unit 2: Intelligence Faculty: Dr. Al Segars

Introduction: Intelligence gathering for innovation.

• Interpreting analytics, statistics and numbers. • Intelligence gathering leads to new ideas. • Turn innovation into stories, process and products or experiences. Divergent vs. Convergent Thinking: • Convergent thinking is seeing facts, figures and information then fitting it into our own biases and our own world-view. This can get in the way of innovation. • Divergent thinking is asking yourself “what is possible” and escaping your own biases. • Example: Disney and Apple.

Storytelling: • Storytelling, or building a narrative, gives us context, it captures a moment in time in a story format. • Example: Disney, Apple iPod, Methodist church.

Process of Narrative Building: A technique or tool to understand what the future may hold. • Develop a question of interest. Needs to be a challenging question using >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7

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