Innovating in a Hyper-

Connected World

Burt Lum

2010 HLA Annual Conference

November 5, 2010

bytemarks@gmail.com

Bytemarks.org

Why Innovate?

Desirableto users

Possiblewith

technology

Viablein

marketplace

INNOVATION

10 Tenets of Innovation >>>

1. Ideas can come from Anywhere

Patrons

Librarians

FriendsCommunity

Trade Publications

2. Build on your creative assets

3. Freedom to Brainstorm

• Respect Individual Voices

• Stay Focused

• Go for Quality

• Be Visual

• Defer Judgment

• Encourage Wild Ideas

• Build on Ideas of Others

4. Share the ideas, be transparent

5. License to pursue your Passion

6. Innovation is not instant Perfection

7. Fail Often, Fail Fast

• Much of success is a numbers game.

• Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs and that is the risk of doing nothing. (-Denis Waitley)

• Risk what you can afford.

8. Innovation aligns to Strategy

9. Focus on Patrons, not the Status Quo

10. Don’t kill Prospects, Morph Them