why innovative teams play hacky sack
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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.TRANSCRIPT
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8 tips to develop more
innovative, collaborative
practices in your
organization.
Innovative teams play Hacky Sack
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Background
Value is only generated via a deep, shared understanding
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What is “a day in the life of” your customer?
How can we:
Generate revenue for shareholders/value chain participants?
Improve their daily work lives? (easier, faster, better..)Create value?
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Challenge
How do you create the
right mindset & work-culture?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU
New ideas are “old” ideas colliding, in context
so immerse teams in the customer context
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Interview plenty of customers
Get out of the building
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Dig deeper for the root cause
Why?Why?
Why?
Why?Real solution is found here
Why?
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Share “ownership” of ideas...
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...But take responsibility for tasks / projects / deliverables
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Be both creative...
…and disciplined / scientific
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Brainstorm – critique – edit. Repeat.
Helmuth von Miltke the Elder
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When everyone knows which “mode” we’re in, meetings are more collaborative and constructive.
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Think solutions past the complexity peak
Complexity Peak
A SimplerSolution
Time & understanding of a problem
Complexity
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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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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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