Innovation through Top Team Building

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Presentation by Ann Edwards for People as
Assets Workshop 11th February 05 INNOVATION
THROUGH TOP TEAM BUILDING
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• Approach
• Painting a picture
• Importance
• Research
• Your Experience
• How to
• Q A

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• Painting a picture
• My work with top teams
• Beyond McKinsey 7s Model Hard Soft Ss
• Corporate Governance environment
• Tenure of executive roles
• Pressure for short term results
• Need for measurement
• Innovation vs Control
• Risk taking vs Meeting the goals
• Competitor pressure for new JIT approaches

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• Importance
• Yesterdays solutions may not work
• There is never enough time!
• Differential is from your ability to think
  differently
• Then experiment take a risk. make a mistake!
• Leadership Role modelling on the shop floor
• Hiring the whole employee engagement
  commitment

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Research from 8 directors
Hinders
Helps

• Non enabling culture

• Plato - 3 levels

• Impatience of the leader others

• Extent of problem time frame (KT)

• Too much at stake to take a risk

• Separate strategy from PS

• Lack of knowledge of individual capabilities

• Being encouraged to innovate

• Role of problem solving context

• Establish a culture with a reasonable tolerance
  for risk

• Roles of board members non exec

• Make personal time space to think be creative

• Not enough time

• A pleasant working environment others to bounce
  off ideas

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Research from 8 directors
What Hinders
What Helps

• Wrong people at the table!

• Have away days, doing something different,
  different environment (business lego!)

• Be aware of focus groups limitations

• Am not very creative so surround myself with
  others who are

• Lack of clarity of the objective

• Relax, take foot of the pump!

• Too posh to push!

• Fresh air natural light

• Dont sacrifice product innovation for Customer
  insight

• Make sure the team wants to problem solve together

• Apply what works well more consistently PLAN,
  PLAN, PLAN

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Research from 8 directors
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• Your Experience
• How do you rate your own innovation skills? 1
  -10
• How about your top team? 1-10
• What are our roles?

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• How to
• Credit to John Whatmore
• Distinguishing when creativity innovation is
  required
• Getting the hard Ss right
• Selecting rewarding the right leaders
• Looking after the core values
• Managing the inside the outside
• Sharing learning providing feedback

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• How to
• Credit to John Whatmore
• Keeping fluid open to opportunities
• Regular reviews feedback
• Get as many people as involved as possible
• Go with the tensions feel the fear do it any
  way!

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Q A Over to you, some more!