70% of Transformational Change programmes fail. 68% of IT projects fail. Most of what we are working on will never succeed. How can we prevent this huge waste of resources. This deck explores the role of innovation labs in early stage testing and fast failure..

1. Reinvented Organisation:
Can Innovation Labs save
the world?
11th February
2016
paul Taylor (aka @paulbromford)
Innovation Coach
@BromfordLab/@bromford
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* = no chance , but stick with the slides

2. The Adapt or Die Era
Declining consumer trust
Heightened service expectation
Increased demand/Reduced Income
Pervasive and cheap technology
Government scrutiny
Heightened expectations of transparency
A digital leadership deficit

3. We need cultures of innovation
but do they actually exist?
The optimum conditions for innovation
are actually:
A very committed executive team (rare)
or
A burning platform where your very
survival is at stake (rarer)

4. how managers spend their week
emails meetings commuting
16 hours 7 hours28 hours
Time for radical thinking is a scarce resource

5. how to kill creativity
Hierarchy Restrictive Job Profiles Over complication
Silo working Lack of resources Reports and approvals

6. how to build innovation (stop doing all of this)
Hierarchy Restrictive Job Profiles Over complication
Silo working Lack of resources Reports and approvals

7. creativity requires nurturing

8. creativity
requires a safe
place to
explore radical
ideas

9. Things we’ve learned from
setting up
AN INNOVATION LAB
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10. the world of bromford
we are here
This is called innovating at
the edge
There’s some science to it
as well - it’s a lot easier
to change 20% of your
organisation by 80% than
bring about 20% of change
on the 80%

11. PERMISSION TO
FAIL IS
PERMISSION TO
THINK BIG
WE HAVE AN
ALLOWABLE
FAILURE RATE OF
70%

12. 70% OF CHANGE
PROGRAMMES FAIL
68% OF IT PROJECTS
FAIL
TEST MORE
IMPLEMENT LESS

13. SMALL TEAMS WIN
WE BUILD ON MINIMUM VIABLE PRINCIPLES

14. INNOVATION
DISPERSAL
WE CALL THIS
SQUAD
WORKING

15. WORKING OUT LOUD IS THE NEW TRANSPARENCY
Globally we are all trying to solve the same problems — yet most of our organisations
keep their successes and failures behind closed doors.

16. Lab Feedback: I dread to think how much money Bromford has wasted on this ridiculous exercise. I would
think our customers would be delighted to know how we spend their money ʺinnovatingʺ!
YOU CAN’T TAKE EVERYONE WITH
YOU

17. Place your screenshot here
INNOVATION IS
ABOUT IMPACT
NOT IDEAS
WIN
ARGUMENTS
BY SHOWING
NOT TELLING

18. PEOPLE
RUSH TO
SHINY AND
SEXY TECH
SOLUTIONS
BETTER SERVICE
DESIGN TRUMPS IT
EVERY TIME

19. systems work best if they
are kept simple rather
than made complicated;
simplicity should be a key
goal in design and
unnecessary complexity
should be avoided.
#KISS

20. Problem
definition
12 weeks max
Coaching
Think 10x bigger
prototype
Test
Evaluate
Fail?
Prepare exit
resource for
scale
THE 84 DAY CHALLENGE

21. 1: Hack your hierarchy
2: innovate from the
edge
3: disperse innovation
4: make everyone a
potential disruptor
THE FOUR STEP PLAN

22. the world outside planet housing
we are here
Digital gives our
generation an
unprecedented opportunity
to join this up around
people
straits of social care
People’s Republic of Health
bay of education
ocean of think tanks
Innovators ,
Entrepreneurs, startups

23. our challenge
is to become more networked, more
social and more agile
digital leadership requires a
metamorphosis not incremental change

24. thanks!
Paul Taylor
lab@bromford.co.uk
@paulbromford
@bromfordlab

25. Credits
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