2. Types of Innovation
! Incremental"
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! Disruptive
Only going to talk about incremental
3. Do
● Make failure to innovate and failure to try the only unacceptable failures
● Encourage and celebrate innovation
● Have planned innovation
● Be data driven
Includes celebrating non-innovative work that is outside of scope. If you always demand developers do only what is asked, will never see innovation. Be cross team, cross functional. Can’t improve business
if you don’t know it. Encourage devs to sit with users. "
Have mechanism for feedback
Give safe environment for innovation
Align incentives with innovation ""
Small changes can lead to big results. Esp with incremental innovation "
Have space and time dedicated, but also available during non-planned innovation
4. Don’t
● Expect everything to work
● Limit to planned innovation activities
● Stress over ROI for individual experiments
● Build barriers to innovation
o Don’t allow others to build barriers either
Barries:
Saying no
Tight deadlines for every project
Org Culture
Not seeing the barriers - Individuals, Teams, Organizational, Technical, Cultural
5. Final Thoughts
Failure is always an option
Make failure to innovate and failure to try the
only unacceptable failures.