8 tips to develop more innovative, collaborative practices in your organisation. I usually use these slides as an introduction during training courses for tech, marketing and product management teams. Let me know your thoughts.

1. Innovative teams play
Hacky Sack
8 tips to develop more
innovative, collaborative
practices in your organization.
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2. Background
Value is only generated
via a deep, shared
understanding
of customer needs
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3. What is “a day in the life of” your customer?
How can we:
Improve their daily work lives? (easier, faster, better..)
Create value?
Generate revenue for shareholders/value chain participants?
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4. Challenge
How do you create
the right mindset &
work-culture?
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5. New ideas are “old” ideas colliding, in context
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU
so immerse teams in the customer context
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6. Get out of the building
Interview plenty of customers
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7. Dig deeper for the root cause
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Real solution is found here
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8. Share “ownership” of ideas...
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9. ...But take responsibility for tasks / projects / deliverables
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10. Be both creative...
…and
disciplined /
scientific
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11. Brainstorm – critique – edit. Repeat.
When everyone knows which “mode” we’re in,
Helmuth von constructive.
meetings are more collaborative andMiltke the Elder
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12. Think solutions past the complexity peak
Complexity
Complexity Peak
A
Simpler
Solution
Time & understanding of a problem
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13. Plan as far as your next learning milestone
So execute relatively
short projects
(experiments), then
pivot as required
Helmuth von Miltke the Elder
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14. Next steps
Use these ideas to:
•Energise and inspire teams.
•Re-think meeting agendas.
•Simplify processes and documentation.
•Add traits to consider when recruiting.
Coming up next:
•A Lean Product Manager’s Toolkit.
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Thanks!
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