maria diaconu, mozaic works - building long term innovative teams
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Building great businesses depends on team innovation. But innovation doesn't only happen because of an innovation process or because of one particular person. Each team member can contribute with creativity, experience, knowledge for creating within the team something new, something amazing for the clients and for the company. A structured approach for coaching the team to become aware of their strengths and how they can grow and innovate together it is a good start for the companies taking the innovation road for their products. More details on: http://2013.howtoweb.co/TRANSCRIPT
Building Long-Term Innovative Teams
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Wikispeed
Innovation?
• Come up with a new way of solving a problem
• Applies to product, process, business
Innovation Myths
• Happens over night
• Comes from one innovative person
• ...who does his thing in a corner
• It’s very visible
Innovation Reality
• It’s iterative and incremental
• Comes from a team
• Includes copying ideas
• Applies to Products, Processes, Business Models
Me: Maria Diaconu
• Founder and CEO Mozaic Works
• Entrepreneur, Startups mentor
• Founder of AgileWorks community
• Former: Software Developer, Quality Manager, Coach, Trainer
Innovation Ingredients
• Culture
• Innovation Framework
• Ideas
• Experiments
• Projects
Culture
• Transparency
• Collaboration
• Diversity
• Safe environment
• Courage
• Focus
• Execution excellence
Innovation Framework
Ideas
Experiments
Projects
Culture
Ideas
• Ideas are free
• Collect them
• Make them visible
Refine ideas
Business Case
•Expected Benefits
•Estimated cost of implementation
•Risks involved
Culture for Ideas
DON’T:
•Laugh at others ideas
•Attribute ideas incorrectly
DO:
•Communicate vision, constraints, needs
Experiments - Why
• Validate hypothesis
• Learn fast
• Discover relevant information
Experiments - How?
• Hypothesis
• Measurable Criteria (when possible)
• A Relevant Duration
Experiments: Culture
• If it succeeded, what did you learn?
• If it failed, what did you learn?
Failure is good, as long as you learn from it
Projects: Why?
• Innovation just for its own sake is useless
• Increase revenue
• Decrease costs
Projects: How?
• Incremental & iterative approach
• With PM or self-organized
Projects: Culture
• Execution excellence
• Stop starting, start finishing
• Empower the team
Innovation Framework
Ideas
Experiments
Projects
Culture
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