How to get from HERE to THERE…

THE BIG IDEA:A library should cultivate a "culture of innovation ... and establish a process for proposing innovation."

- Deb Schmidle, ACRL webinar, April 2008.

INNOVATION It’s the THINKING not the THING Examples:

Code Game Learning 2.0 Wireless keyboards Staffwiki Turn off computers during break

2 Things:1. Cultivate a culture of ideas2. Have a process for proposing ideas

What if all your Library Dreams Could Come True?

Where would you take your idea? We didn’t know, either.

Things would have to CHANGE.

Culture, Step 1: The Dean announces a new initiative

We will foster innovation and creativity We will help ideas become realityWe will train everyone how to do that.We will accept that innovation is necessary

Culture, Step 2: continuous training

Culture, Step 3: Create a Process More on this later… .

Culture: Step 4: Praise to the inno-Beta-ers

Process: In a perfect world: 1. .Ideas are encouraged and welcomed 2. .Submitting ideas is simple 3. .Evaluation is quick and effective 4. , , Feedback is timely constructive and

.informative 5. .Implementation is rapid and smooth 6. .Ideas are reviewed for additional potential 7. , People are recognized and success is

.celebrated 8. , Idea system performance is measured

, .reviewed and improved

Process : Where do ideas go to get heard?

We propose: a REALLY simple form on the wiki

Process: The Form: BIG IDEA PROPOSAL Big Idea: ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Proposed by : ________________________________________________ Who/what will be impacted? List positive and negative changes, what problem solved? What department (s) work would be influenced?

Overall outcome? What investment/costs are involved? ___________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I have requested _____________________________ as my immediate supervisor to review this proposal.   Date submitted to committee

__________________________________________________________________________________________ Action

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Archived

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Process : Who hears the ideas?

We propose: the LC or a subset of the LC

Process: Then what happens?The Idea Group helps the proposer collaborate

The proposer keeps the idea alive or finds herself a “champion”

It’s political; just say so

Process :Communication Track ideas that come in Track timeliness of responses Track what’s happened so far Track implementations Track “compost”

We think this could all be on the wiki

Process: PersistanceChange is slow. Years not months.Culture shift

Process: AssessWe will always be looking for ways to do it better.

QUESTIONS

Can’t I just go to my boss and get the thing done?Sure! (now record it on the wiki!)What if it’s bigger than your department?What if someone says “No”?What if you don’t know how yet?

Why can’t things just stay the same? Google Iphone Recession Amazon Wikipedia Web 2.0

Who would hold the process accountable?I will

Where would we get the money?From things we don’t need to do.From people who get excited about what we are doing.

From a university that sees how ESSENTIAL we are.

Some ideas don’t cost a cent

How would Big Things happen?

Trial Failure / Success Over And over

The new world is perpetual Beta.

Be the Change You Want to See Our group’s big idea Was to imagine a way to make more big ideas

happen. For that, we propose a Big Idea Group (=L.C.). Today, we are asking you to BE the Big Idea Group And consider our big idea With the kind of consideration you would use on

other big ideas.

How can we collaborate?

This is hard, isn’t it?