Want to embed innovation in your workplace culture, you can. Here are some simple strategies based on the UQ Powerhouse and some of the work of Nils Vesk.
12. Culture Focus Structure
Business Unit
Collaboration
Narrative
There once
was a…
Curiosity
?
Rituals
The best idea
I have seen
this week
Field Trips
UQ as Business
As Usual
15. CATCH - VISION – Narrative - Investigation – insights generation,
research
HATCH – IQ – Curiosity - Ideation, ideas brainstorm, possible solutions
SCRATCH – BODY – Rituals - Iteration, rapid prototyping, test balloons
MATCH – EQ – Field Trips and Collaboration - Connection, who else
do we need to include?
DISPATCH – UQ – Business as Usual - Commercialisation, marketing
and measurement, sharing the story every 90 days
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Embedding a culture of innovation
16. LOVE A GOOD STORY – THE NARRATIVE
Customer service innovation – give all staff a budget of
$1000 to delight a customer.
Average spend was $80
Mines recruitment campaign
targeting female truck drivers
because they discovered they
looked after the trucks better.
Improved life of truck, less
down time.
17. CSIRO – The New Faces of Science
CSIRO has pulled seven of its brightest young scientists out of their labs and
enlisted them in a campaign to recruit future thinkers, innovators, scientists and
entrepreneurs.
18. www.UQPower.com.au
What could you innovate?
Orientation?
Site induction?
in the group to the others
– which means
the LEADER
sets the mood!