Presentation delivered to members of BCS Elite Leeds on 23 March 2012

1. IT-enabled Business Alison Freer
Innovation
23rd March 2012

2. Innovation is the New ‘New’

3. Overview:
Innovation: what, why & who?
Innovation success factors?
IT as enablers & leaders.

4. The best Innovators have been
innovating for years…

5. Innovation =
… ideas successfully applied
… invention + exploitation +
persistence

6. “I really think that the way companies
implement business processes,
organisational change, & IT-driven
innovation, is what differentiates the
leaders from the laggers.”!
Erik Brynjolfsson. MIT Sloan Management Review, !
Spring 2010

7. How do we maximise
our R&D Investment?
• Global business
• Multiple suppliers
with expertise
• High competition
• Time critical

8. How do we maximise
our R&D expertise?
• Entrepreneurial leader
• Innovation Days
• Won over hearts & minds
• ‘Open Innovation’
campaign with suppliers =
90 new ideas

9. How do we turn data
into Information?
• NHS organisation
• 115 days to
transfer patient
activity data into
management
reports
• Slow, cumbersome
planning

10. How do we turn data
into Information?
• IT Team led agile
development of
customisable
dashboard platform
• Time to report cut
to 5 days
• Widely adopted
within 18 months

11. How do we help our business
colleagues to innovate?
• Global Airline
• High dependence
on paper-based
compliance forms
• Slow, complicated
data capture,
including safety
critical information

12. How do we help our business
colleagues to innovate?
• IT Team
experimented with
touch pad devices
• Idea generation
session with Cabin &
Flight crews
• In-house App store
for data capture on
the fly

13. Successful Innovation Engages the Crowd

14. Successful Innovation Requires a Toolkit

15. Successful Innovation is Enabled by IT
• IT & Business strategies
aligned
• Collaborative Platforms
• Scope for exploration &
experimentation

16. Successful Innovation is ‘Open’
• IBM ‘Idea Jam’
• 40,000 ideas
• 10 new business ventures
• $300M new revenue in 2
years

17. Successful Innovation has Clear Sponsorship
• Idea Portfolio Manager
• Global Head of Collective Intelligence
• Chief Growth Officer
• Chief Innovation Officer
• Chief Inspiration Officer
• Chief Imagination Officer
• Chief Detonator
• Chief Lizard Wrangler

18. Successful Innovation Requires Diversity
• Demographics
• Personalities
• Experience
• Sectors
• Life

19. Successful Innovation Requires IT Leadership
• Envisioning Future Trends
• Experimentation
• Engaging with users
• Embedded in strategy
• Empowered IT Teams

20. Innovation Debate
• How well does your
organisation innovate?
• Examples of good
practice?
• What scope is there for
IT leaders to improve
Innovation capability?

21. Contacts
alison@leadandtransformit.com
www.leadandtransformit.com
Photography credits:
Alison Freer Instagram
www.redboatcreative.com
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