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Sparking and Leading Innovation. Women’s Leadership Institute December 5-8, 2010. Kathryn J. Deiss ACRL Content Strategist [email protected]. Photo by Tom Oliver. “Different is not always better but better is always different.” Rick Luce Emory University. Who is innovative?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Sparking and Leading Innovation
Women’s Leadership InstituteDecember 5-8, 2010Kathryn J. Deiss
ACRL Content [email protected]
Photo by Tom Oliver
“Different is not always better but better is always different.”
Rick LuceEmory University
Creative InventionsLightning Rounds - 60
seconds
1.Create an invention using your card and someone else’s
2. Write it down on back of card
3. Find another person and repeat
4. Find another person and repeat
“Innovation is the embodiment, combination, and/or synthesis of knowledge in novel, relevant, valued new products, processes, or services.”
Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap
The Adjacent Possible :a concept describing the power of combinatory connections/collisions
Coined by scientist Stuart Kaufmann and cited in Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
More stuff on the table!
Photo by Lucy Lou
Innovations are those things that change the way we can do what we want to do
Innovation is disruptive
Innovation is both revolutionary and evolutionary
Society decides what is innovative
Cornelis Drebbel and £20,000 (1624)
Societal readiness Patterns of behavior Political climate Building the message
Operate “just beyond the possible.”
Source: Paul C. Light “Sustaining Innovation”Photo by Bee Skutch
Barriers to innovation Organizational age
Individual & group skills lacking
Desire for perfection
Risk aversion
Natural tensions & dichotomies Photo by remu
z
Photo by moqub
Sometimes you have to bust something up to achieve a breakthrough!
Prototyping: a new skill
Prototyping Observation of people & situations
Trials and tests
Three dimensional aspect
Inventive
Feedback loops
“Quick prototyping is about acting before you have got the answers…
Good prototypes don’t just communicate, they persuade.”
Tom Kelley, IDEO
What’s in a name? the GGNRA’s transformation by prototype
Design by Michael Schwab
From Golden Gate National Recreation AreatoGolden Gate National Parks
Photo by yepperdoodle
Use the unexpected to your advantage
Johnny Lee Chung:a case of unintended consequenceshttp://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/
Photo by fixpert!
Think of an innovation in your department or institution. How could you create a prototype of some kind (physical, process, etc.) for this innovation?
As a group share projects and do a quick idea sort on one of these situations(10 mins)
Innovation incubators Places - physical & virtual
Skills - play, ideating, prototyping
Practices - processes and tools
Technologies - emerging tools for delivering and testing services
Planning an Innovation Incubator
Use the planning handout to think through setting up an innovation incubator - let your imagination play!Discuss your planning thoughts
with two other people in the room
Some Final Thoughts
We need to seek intersections
We need to engage in trial and error and prototyping
We need to adopt multiple perspectives
We need to face into the outside world
“The most successful people are those who are willing to give up their most successful strategies….”
Richard Foster
