Innovation 2

Initiatives are not the same as innovations

Innovations make breakthroughs that are measureable and beneficial. Initiatives can rally troops and raise performance but are by their nature time limited

See the table of management initiatives through the 20^th century from Decision trees to self-managing teams and beyond. What have you experienced and what are you experiencing now?

An innovative way to bring creativity and ideas to the fore is to have meetings without slides. Storytelling should be interesting and engaging.  It should encourage people to devise their own endings. The next steps to a satisfactory conclusion

People talk, people listen and take notes.

Then each person’s individual notes are read out loud. No matter what you think the comment that is re-read out the most is the take away from the meeting and the one that will be acted on.

Is it the action you had planned as the outcome of your meeting?

Stories

	Yesterday	Today	Tomorrow
Non-fiction	Case Study, Data	Meeting	Plan
Embellished Reality		News, encounters	Why I couldn’t
Fiction	Legends, Myths		Scenario

Innovation 1.

Through August we are going to begin talking about Innovation
So let's begin with Wikipedia
The term innovation can be defined as something original and new that "breaks in to" the market or into society.
Practical Innovation is new beneficial solutions by more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas delivered to markets, governments and society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation