Decentralised & Democratised Innovation

Simon Hill

simon@wazoku.com

@mrsihill / @wazokuhq

The Next 40 (ish) minutes of your life….

• A bit about me

– My background and experience

– My view on the innovation landscape;

• Decentralisation & Democratisation of our work places

– drawing upon exchange of ideas and specialisation to deliver profitability,

progress and innovation;

– how well we collaborate is what drives progress (not how smart we are);

Tasmania vs. Tierra del Fuego;

• Examples from the shop floor

• Questions (and hopefully some answers)

Simon Hill….

(ex-)ConsultantTech FounderCEO WazokuInnovation LeaderIdeas Person

What is Wazoku?

Swahili for ‘Great Idea’

Leading Innovation Software Company

Powers innovation and engagement within networks at some of the world’s leading organisations

Award winning software, recognised by leading analyst organisations

A quick quiz

Adam takes 4 hours to make a sword and 3 hours to make an axe

Oz takes 1 hour to make a sword and 2 hours to make an axe

A quick quiz

Who should make our weapons?!

(a) Oz should make both the axe and the sword (b) Oz should make the sword and Adam the axe(c) Adam should make the sword and Oz the axe

A quick quiz

Who should make our weapons?!

(a) Oz should make both the axe and the sword (b) Oz should make the sword and Adam the axe(c) Adam should make the sword and Oz the axe

We live in highly innovative times…??

The Pace of Change

Yes, but…

Change is NOT (necessarily) innovation

Many innovation structures are flawed

A world of incremental innovation?

X386

$287bn$325bn

Bloated Hierarchies

Risk Aversion and Short-termism

Decentralising the Organisation

structures, processes & procedures

Business is more social than ever…

…but what does that have to do with innovation?

Let us explore this a little

• The Enterprise is getting ever more social……

Let us explore this a little

• Enabling us to more easily share knowledge, expertise, opinion and pictures of cats doing funny things…

Where next?

• The next evolution of this is seeing us asking salient questions around data, IP, workflow, productivity, KPIs, privacy etc…and of course innovation

Create and share ideas, discuss and vote on them. Encourage participants to improve ideas.

Evaluate ideas against specific criteria. Develop and elaborate a short list of ideas.

Choose the best ideas to implement to achieve desired outcomes.

How do we build the Innovative Organisation?

In the innovative enterprise….

In the innovative organisation, where does innovation reside?

In the innovative organisation, where does innovation reside?

In the democratic innovative organisation….

Creativity and Innovation are part of everyone’s job

In this high performing culture we communicate openly

Embrace diversity, exchange and specialisation

vs.

Tasmania vs. Tierra del Fuego

From our morning workshop

The Results

Innovation at Samsung (over 3.5 yrs)

“Good programming ideas need development, feedback and discussion. Employee

engagement is a key part of how the BBC operates and we believe there is a wealth

of untapped creative talent which, using Wazoku’s platform customised to our

specific needs, can be used to generate some fantastic TV shows.”

Pat Younge, Chief Creative Officer, BBC Production

Parting Thought – It’s a matter of perspective and context!