The document discusses creating a culture of innovation through leadership. It provides an agenda for a workshop on innovation leadership that includes understanding different types of innovation, the difference between ideation, creativity and brainstorming, characteristics of innovative cultures and leaders, and assessing one's own organization. References and resources from experts on innovation and culture are also provided.

1. Leadership and Creating a
Culture of Innovation
Innovation Leadership 101

2. Agenda
 Introductions
 Shawnee
 mES
 Audience
 Workshop
 Wrap Up
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3. Expectations
 We will move fast – like some organizations’ take on
Innovation
 Setting aside preconceived ideas – being open to what
you hear
 Some of what you hear will be contradictory – how you
do Innovation is based on… it depends
 No more an exact science than TQM or many other
business management initiatives
 Set phones to “vibrate”
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4. Objectives
 Understanding different types of Innovation
 The difference between ideation, creativity
and brainstorming
 What makes an innovative culture
 The characteristics of Leaders in innovative
cultures
 If you haven’t started being innovative –
why not?
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5. Did You Know
 Did You Know? – Karl Fisch et al. Arapahoe
High School, Littleton, CO
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6. Brands Predicted to Disappear in
2012 (source WSJ)
http://247wallst.com/2011/06/22/247-wall-st-ten-brands-that-will-disappear-in-2012/
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7. Brands Predicted to Disappear in
2012 (source WSJ)
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8. The IPhone
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9. The IPhone
 “Because our cell phones suck”
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10. Library Lunacy
 A public library made a sudden
announcement that members could now
borrow up to ten books at a time and had up
to six months to return them.
 Why?
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11. Library Lunacy
 Answer
 The library was moving to new premises and had
very little money for the move. By allowing the
borrowers extra time they ensured that the
members ended up moving a large volume of the
total number of books
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12. What is Innovation?
 Take about five minutes and write your
definition of Innovation
 Don’t worry, at this point there are no right or
wrong answers
 Once everyone is done we will share our
individual responses with the class
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13. Why the Buzz around Innovation
and Why Now?
 A recent Wired magazine issue had over 43
references about Innovation
 Cycles
 The internet, social media, the explosion in
connectivity
 If you’re all about continuous improvement
you’re toast. If you’re not innovating you’re
just waiting to be overtaken.
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14. Two Types of Innovation
 Evolutionary Innovation (Sustaining)
 Revolutionary Innovation (Disruptive)
 What examples do you have that fit one of
these models?
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15. Ideation, Creativity, Brainstorming
 The difference between ideation, creativity
and brainstorming
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16. An Innovative Look at Innovation
 Where Good Ideas Come From – Steven
Johnson
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17. What is Culture
 Divide into groups and come up with a
definition
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18. Schein’s Culture Model
Artifacts Visible
Visible organizational structures, and
processes, norms Known
Espoused Values
Strategies, goals, and philosophies
that are justifications for things
being as they are
Basic Underlying Assumptions Invisible
Unconscious, taken-for-granted beliefs, and
perceptions, thoughts, and feelings; the Unspoken
ultimate source of values and action
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19. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”
Culture is so strong that people will
deny, minimize, ridicule, or dismiss the reality of
what they see or experience if it conflicts with
their core culture assumptions.
This is where culture gets its real power!
Culture
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20. Encouraging Innovation
 Michael Bills Ohio State University
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21. The Innovative Culture at 3M
 3M
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22. Four Stages of the Creative
Process
 Preparation
 Incubation
 Illumination
 Execution
 Source Dr. A. J. Schuler
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23. Leadership
 Leadership
 Homework – Article from NY Times
 Leader
 What did he do?
 What were his characteristics?
 Building
 Work/taking time
 Collaboration
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24. What Every Manager Needs to
Know
 Creating a Culture of Innovation - David
Kester, Chief Executive, Design Council
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25. Understanding the
Creative/Innovative Process
 Think about your organization
 Do you identify creative people?
 What can happen to your most creative
talent?
 Getting ahead through politics
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26. The Creative Process
 Train Managers in the Creative Process
 Selecting promising innovators
 Create “buffer zones” for the most innovative
people
 Give innovators room to play
 Resist the temptation to look for immediate results
 Commit to driving the best ideas through to
implementation
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27. Leadership is Evolving?
 Think – A Forum on Leadership
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28. Innovation at Facebook
 A culture of move fast and break things
 Done is better than perfect
 These two mantras appear everywhere around the company
 When hiring engineers – “we expect them to make a change to the
live production website within their first week”
 All-night Hackathons
 Create an “escape velocity” for ideas
 Everyone has permission to fail
 In contrast to other businesses where there can be repercussions
for failure, at Facebook “what were we trying to do and why?”
 Incident reviews
 Entrepreneurial thinking
 Leveraging massive scale
 750 million users
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29. Encouraging Innovation
 Michael Bills – Ohio State University
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30. Innovate like Google
 Tom Davenport – Babson College
 Stopping at 5:40
 Pay particular attention to what is said at the end
of this video
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31. In Your Own Organization
 What is the tolerance for failure?
 How often do leaders act as if they might be
the smartest person in the room?
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32. Continuous Learning
 Looking at your own organization
 Can you honestly say there is a true passion for
continuous learning?
 Does your culture have this as an ingredient
 Is it talked about but not a reality?
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33. Final Exercise
 In your group you will identify
 5 attributes of an innovative culture
 5 attributes needed by leaders to drive Innovation
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34. What you can do next?
 Now that you know more about innovation
 Assess your culture
 What needs to change?
 Assess your leadership at all levels
 Are you creating leaders that can lead Innovation?
 Assess your hiring practices
 Do you even consider hiring highly creative or
individuals with entrepreneurial behaviors?
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35. An Entire World of Possibility
 Eric Whitacre – Virtual Choir
 Psst…if you’re not following TED, you need
too
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36. References
 Karl Fisch – Did You Know?
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY
 Where Good Ideas Come From – Steven Johnson
 http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2011/08/13/where-good-
ideas-come-from
 Michael Bills – Ohio State University
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRZnAsr9cp0
 The Innovative Culture at 3M
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLIX9yJZosk&feature=related
 Creating a Culture of Innovation – David Kester, Chief
Executive, Design Council
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyqJGdIMcas
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37. References
 Think – A Forum on Leadership
 http://www.youtube.com/ibm?v=YjMTx4b6bLw&lr=1
 Michael Bills – Ohio State University
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRZnAsr9cp0
 Tom Davenport – Babson College
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=QOio
QxtJ4jl
 Moving fast, breaking things: Facebook’s Innovation Culture
 http://www.i-cio.com/features/july-2011/facebooks-innovation-
culture
 How Google has created a culture of innovation
 http://www.makibie.com/blog/uncategorized/how-google-has-
created-a-culture-of-innovation
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38. mES Resources
 mEnterprise Solutions YouTube Channel
 http://www.youtube.com/user/mEnterpriseSolutions?feature=mhee
 mEnterprise Solutions slideshare Channel
 http://www.slideshare.net/mes_team
 mEnterprise Solutions Website
 www.mEnterpriseSolutions.com.
 Marianne’s contact info
 LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/marianne-chester/7/bb3/511
 Email: mchester@mEnterpriseSolutions.com
 Phone: 570.460.9599
 Tom’s LinkedIn Profile
 LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tom-rhiel/8/352/64
 Email: trhiel@mEnterpriseSolutions.com
 Phone: 303.885.4400
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