When trying to increase innovation within their organizations, leaders tend to focus on major initiatives for creating changes to their organization’s structure, processes and culture. This webinar will provide a framework for thinking about innovation that will stimulate your thinking in regards to what you can do, control and influence to increase your innovation contributions and the innovation contributions of those whom you work with directly and indirectly. The webinar will cover: • Finding the right ideas with big business potential • The role of “dots” in innovation and how to make frequent and better connections between them • Simple things you can do to motivate innovative behavior View this webinar in full at: http://budurl.com/s56t

1. Simple Things You Can Do To Increase Innovation
Within Your Organization
July 10th 2014
Live tweet with #InnoPlus

2. Arthur Fox
Founder/President, Innovation Global
Network
admin@innovationglobalnetwork.com

3. Today’s Agenda
What Will Be Discussed?
• Some powerful ideas and
suggestions for what you can do
to increase innovation quickly,
easily and within your control.
• Framework for thinking about
innovation and how it occurs
What Will Not Be Discussed?
• Creating and implementing
Innovation Management
Processes and Systems
• Not intended to be a
comprehensive primer on
innovation and creativity
• Will not be promoting specific
innovation service providers
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4. The Eureka Moment –the Big Bang of Innovation
• Eureka Moments are the instances great,
innovative ideas occur to you.
• Happens when they happen – while
showering, daydreaming, sleeping,
discussions, etc.
• Usually happens in response to a stimulus
– something you read or heard
• Eureka Moments usually happen to
individuals, but can happen as a result of
group interactions
• Most importantly, you can increase their
frequency for yourself and others
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5. The Dot Theory of Innovation
• Everybody has a pool of dots - insights, facts and technologies
• New ideas happen when you connect the dots in new, unique patterns
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6. 7
“Creativity is just having enough dots to connect”
-Steve Jobs
Increasing the
Quantity, Quality
and Uniqueness
of Dot
Connections
Increased
Quantity,
Quality and
Uniqueness of
Innovations

7. How does this work?
• The larger your pool of dots, the more patterns and ideas you can create
• The more unique and highly leverageable dots you possess, the more unique
ideas you can create
• The more active and stimulated you are, the more often you will connect the
dots to create innovative ideas
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8. Poll Question
On a scale of 1-5, How effective is your
innovation approach?
(1 being low, 5 being high)

9. The Role of Insights and Factoids
• Facts are public knowledge
Examples:
– Populations in many countries are aging
– People are increasingly using wearable devices
• Insights are perspectives you have that others do not
– Very leverageable and powerful
– Facilitate the creation of unique, proprietary ideas and inventions
– Provide competitive advantage
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10. You should pursue an “all of the above” strategy when it comes
to gathering Insights and Facts
• Potential Sources:
– Original Market Research
– Syndicated Studies
– Government Studies and
other public sources
– Online publications,
databases and information
sources
– Internet forums and
“Crowdsourcing” options
– Conferences and Trade Shows
– Mystery Shopping
– Resources of other
Departments, Divisions and
Affiliates
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11. Four Categories of Insights
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Positive
Insights
Validated Insights
Negative
Insights
Potential Insights

12. Focus on Validated Insights rather than
on Potential Insights
• Potential Insights - new perspectives/hypotheses based on qualitative
evidence, observations or experience
– Individuals often get emotionally invested in their potential insights
• Pursue ideas before they are validated
• Wastes time and resources
• Validated Insights are perspectives/hypotheses proven to be true and
leverageable
– Established via quantitative method or at least several qualitative methods
– Much more likely to lead to a valuable idea
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13. Value and Disseminate Both
Positive and Negative Insights
• Positive Insights
– Empower, stimulate and help connect dots
– Create focus
– Drive growth
– Highly valued in organizations
• Negative Insights
– Identify challenges and fatal flaws
– Facilitate productivity
– Help avoid wasting organizational resources
– Undervalued in organizations
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14. Inform and Educate all who Support your Projects
• Broadly distribute summaries of key insights and facts
• Establish a series of insights seminars, presentations and workshops
– Invite your agencies, vendors and other support services to present
– Make relevant webinars available
• Establish information networks within your organization
– Other departments, divisions and affiliates
• Arrange for newsletters to be regularly distributed
– Latest market news, insights, ideas and trends
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15. Actively Encourage the Connecting of Dots to Catalyze
Creativity and Innovation
– Communicate
• Put forward an Innovation Strategy
• Issue Innovation Challenges
• Include diverse thinkers on your teams
• Schedule lunches with people you
normally do not interact with
• Encourage people to forward their
ideas, tell them where to send them and
give them feedback
• Email articles containing new insights,
ideas, trends and advice on innovation
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16. Tips for Increasing Creativity
• Develop the creativity skills of yourself and others through formal training
• Prior to creativity sessions, have participants prepare:
– Compile insights, key facts and trends from their areas of expertise
– Conduct observational research in stores, homes or other relevant locations
• Focus creativity against specific strategic targets
• Incorporate prototyping where possible
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17. Poll Question
Where does innovation rank among your
company's strategic priorities?
1. Highest priority
2. Top 5 priority
3. Not a priority
4. I don't know

18. Motivate to Innovate – Direct Reports
• Use your Objectives Development and Performance Reviews Systems
– Communicate that innovation is a requirement to getting a top performance grade for
each objective
– Communicate that a percentage of the overall review grade will be focused on
achieving one or more specific innovation objectives
– Set up a performance objective focused on process improvement
– Set up a development objective that he/she participate in innovation forums or events
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19. Motivate to Innovate – Direct Reports (cont’d)
• Remove low value added items from workloads and responsibilities
• Encourage direct reports to create their own jobs by taking on new responsibilities
that they create.
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20. Motivate to Innovate – Beyond Direct Reports
• Lead by example - Show them how it can be done
• Encourage them to forward their ideas for consideration by displaying interest,
openness and respect
• Explain to junior staff members the value in displaying innovation leadership
• Negotiate with your supervisor to support your own innovation development and
leadership
• Share a link to this webinar with them
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21. Use the Innovation Global Network to Find More
Innovation Best Practices
• Great articles, discussions, webinars and communities focused on best practices
• Expert contacts, peers that can help them with their objectives
• Soon to be available – partnering with companies to provide access to powerful tools and resources to help
you connect dots and drive innovation
• Inform your Colleagues and Direct Reports about the Innovation Global Network and encourage them to join
• Join at www.InnovationGlobalNetwork.com
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22. Learn More About How Sopheon’s Integrated
Enterprise Innovation Performance can Help Your
Company
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7. One-of-a-Kind Support for “Top-Down” Resource Planning
6. One-of-a-Kind Ability to Optimize Portfolios Across Multiple Constraints
5. Sopheon’s Best Practices and Accelerated Innovation Processes
4. Implement With Experts That Understand Business, not Just Technology
3. 13+ Years of Proven Success With Large, Global Complex Clients
2. Sopheon’s Focus on Users, Usability and Saving People Time
1. The Most Complete Solution for the Entire Innovation Lifecycle
Top 10 Reasons to Partner With Sopheon
We would be delighted to share more with you about how we improve Enterprise Innovation
Performance, and discuss how we can help your company achieve world-class innovation performance.
 To learn more, please contact us at: info@Sopheon.com
We look forward to the opportunity to help you improve your innovation results, and create new value
and growth for your company.

23. Arthur Fox, Founder/President, Innovation Global Network
www.innovationglobalnetwork.com
afox@InnovationGlobalNetwork.com
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