For companies in a post-recession rebuilding phase, it is easy to fall prey to the innovation myth.
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1. HOW TO BE RESILIENT IN THE FACE OF CHANGE:
THE
INNOVATION
MYTH
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2. FOUR CHAPTERS
1. We are living in the 21st century with 20th century ideals.
2. The cracks are starting to surface.
3. We fall prey to the innovation myth.
4. Agility breeds resiliency.
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11. The post-recession experience:
Companies in a post-recession rebuilding phase face
reduced headcount, flat budgets, and yet greater expectations
to ensure company survival.
Your customers no longer buy what you sell.
Technology continues to outpace even the best-laid annual
plan.
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27. Innovation is the ability
to adopt, operationalize,
and refine the thing. So
that you can create new
things.
Continuously.
Over time.
Benefitting more than
one party, including
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29. Agility is the hallmark of a 21st century
organization.
“In essence, super-flexibility is the capacity to change course, transform, evolve, and
reinvent—like a chameleon changing its color. At the same time, super-flexibility is
not just about transformation and reinvention; it is also about the capacity to
withstand turbulence, to bounce back, and to stay the course, like a camel surviving
in desert conditions. In practice, it means engaging in a delicate balancing act:
deciding what to keep and how to stay the course on the one hand, and deciding
where to make swift and sudden changes in order to address new realities, on the
other hand.”
-- Homa Bahrami and Stuart Evans, authors of
Super-Flexibility for Knowledge Enterprises: A Toolkit for Dynamic Adaptation
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30. It’s easy if you look like this.
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31. Really nice fountain.
(There’s always a nice fountain.)
But what if you look like this?
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32. You may need to re-think the industry you are in.
Automotive (the car) Transportation (zipcar, bus w/wifi)
Pharmaceutical (drugs) Healthcare (devices and services)
Media & Publishing (television, print) Experiences (multi-modal)
Higher education (college degree) Hire-ability (likely to get a job)
Telecommunications (a phone) Access to the internet (e.g., apps, email)
Beauty (expression) Transformation (cycle of looks)
Retail (aspiration) Collaborative consumption (never pay retail)
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34. You will need to take action.
ATTRIBUTES ACTIONS
Digital Mindset Experimentation
Calculated Risk Failure budgets
Agility Short sprints
Embrace the network Networked staff models
Open models Partnerships
Design & systems thinking Operate in the full ecosystem
Pattern detection Self-learning processes
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35. And persevere.
"A company can't will itself to be agile. Agility is an emergent property that
appears when an organization has the right mindset, the right skills, and the
ability to multiply those skills through collaboration.To count agility as a core
competence, you have to embed it into the culture.You have to encourage
an enterprise-wide appetite for radical ideas.You have to keep the company
in a constant state of inventiveness. It's one thing to inject a company with
inventiveness. It's another thing to build a company on inventiveness."
--Marty Neumeier, The Designful Company, Design Thinking
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