How to be more innovative? Some advice from the experts on how to design your personal innovation roadmap -- in three steps. Slides from a keynote presentation prepared for Queen's School of Business Innovation Summit, 2014.

1. Design a Personal Innovation Plan:
3-Step Roadmap

2. innovation
what’s the secret ?

3. how to turn
insights
into actionable
ideas

4. “
Around here we don’t look backwards for
long. We keep moving forward, opening
up new doors, doing new things. Curiosity
leads us down new paths. — Walt Disney

5. the challenge:
to design a personal
innovation
roadmap
a clear track to follow
getting you from where you
are now, to where you want
to be next year

6. 1 become an expert.
commit to continuous
lifelong learning &
professional
development

7. “
Learning and innovation go hand in hand.
The arrogance of success is to think that
what you did yesterday will be sufficient for
tomorrow.
— William Pollard

8. Now granted,
developing
deep smarts
takes time
so focus on what matters and
resolve to learn more about those
things every single day.

9. For every job across the company, the No. 1 thing
we look for is general cognitive ability. It’s not I.Q.
It’s learning ability. The ability to process on the fly.
To pull together disparate bits of information.
— Laszlo Bock, SVP
Human Resources, Google

10. Make sure you give yourself enough
uninterrupted time for you to think
because privacy often increases productivity.
work hard. alone.

11. become an infovore
read
everything.
ask lots of questions
try to connect the dots

12. “
Questions are like keys that unlock doors in
our lives and work. The challenge is finding
the right key to unlock the right door.
— Hal B. Gregersen

13. always seek:
a steeper
trajectory
Perform a skills audit: what do you want
to be significantly better at in 3 months?
set clear goals + deadlines

15. “Think to build, build to think.”
— Tim Brown, IDEO

17. there is magic in the remix
“
The winner is the chef
who takes the same
ingredients as everyone
else and produces the
best result.
-- Edward de Bono

18. 3
assemble your team.
collaborate + crowdsource

19. innovate
with people
not for them
get to know your audience. solve their problems.

20. “
Pitch your product to friends, family,
angels, journalists, random people you
meet on the street. You’ll see patterns in
their responses. Do their eyes light up?
Do they return a blank stare?
— Prerna Gupta

22. “
The best vision is insight.
— Malcolm Forbes

23. purposeful
interactions
with
diverse
Thanks Dyer & Christensen: The Innovator’s DNA
connections
the currency of innovation

25. your advisory board
assemble
find a mentor. now find another one.
to keep you on track. give feedback. and to remind you that...

26. “
The only way to do great work
is to love what you do.
— Steve Jobs

27. your personal
innovation
roadmap
in three steps
hone your
expertise
flex your
creativity
assemble
your team

28. This keynote presentation was prepared for the 2014
Queen’s School of Business Innovation Summit.
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