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Sparking and Leading Innovation

Women’s Leadership InstituteDecember 5-8, 2010

Kathryn J. DeissACRL Content Strategistkdeiss@ala.org

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“Different is not always betterbut better is always different.”Rick LuceEmory University

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Who is innovative?

Creative Inventions

Lightning Rounds - 60 seconds

1.Create an invention using yourcard and someone else’s

2. Write it down on back of card

3. Find another person and repeat

4. Find another person and repeat

“Innovation is theembodiment, combination,and/or synthesis ofknowledge in novel, relevant,valued new products,processes, or services.”Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap

The Adjacent Possible :a concept describing thepower of combinatoryconnections/collisions

Coined by scientist Stuart Kaufmann and cited inWhere Good Ideas Come From by StevenJohnson

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More stuff on the table!

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 Innovations are those things thatchange the way we can do whatwe want to do

 Innovation is disruptive

 Innovation is both revolutionaryand evolutionary

 Society decides what is innovative

Cornelis Drebbel and £20,000 (1624)

 Societal readiness

 Patterns of behavior

 Political climate

 Building the message

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Operate “just beyondthe possible.”

Source: Paul C. Light “Sustaining Innovation”

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Barriers to innovation

 Organizational age

 Individual & group skills lacking

 Desire for perfection

 Risk aversion

 Natural tensions & dichotomies

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Sometimes youhave to bustsomething up toachieve abreakthrough!

Prototyping: a new skill

Prototyping

 Observation of people & situations

 Trials and tests

 Three dimensional aspect

 Inventive

 Feedback loops

“Quick prototyping is aboutacting before you have gotthe answers…

Good prototypes don’t justcommunicate, theypersuade.”Tom Kelley, IDEO

What’s in a name? the GGNRA’stransformation by prototype

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From Golden Gate NationalRecreation AreatoGolden Gate National Parks

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Use the unexpected toyour advantage

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Johnny Lee Chung:a case of unintendedconsequences

http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/

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Think of an innovation in yourdepartment or institution. Howcould you create a prototype ofsome kind (physical, process, etc.)for this innovation?

As a group share projectsand do a quick idea sorton one of these situations(10 mins)

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Innovation Incubators

Innovation incubators

 Places - physical & virtual

 Skills - play, ideating, prototyping

 Practices - processes and tools

 Technologies - emerging tools fordelivering and testing services

Planning an Innovation Incubator

Use the planning handoutto think through setting upan innovation incubator -let your imagination play!

Discuss your planning thoughts withtwo other people in the room

Some Final Thoughts

We need to seek intersections

We need to engage in trial anderror and prototyping

We need to adopt multipleperspectives

We need to face into the outsideworld

“The most successful peopleare those who are willing togive up their most successfulstrategies….” Richard Foster

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Thank you!

Keep in touch!kdeiss@ala.org