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teaching innovation, leadership - skills, patterns, practices

• Share Best Practices - Patterns - sense making, pattern recognition and mental models are essential components of decision making." Then "through pattern recognition, the problem solver identifies actions to address the issue. As one begins to act, they are also assessing, in real time, the potential impact of their actions.... As problem solvers do this, they adjust their actions on-the-fly." -- from OLDaily

nterinnovation.com Skills - Me, We, Process, Outcomes

Creativity is the process of coming up with new ideas, and innovation is the application of those ideas to a process, product, service or business model that will bring new value to customers. -- INTER

Skills - Me, We, Process, Outcomes

Me

Capacity and Capability: develop your skills as an individual to be a contributor, catalyst and thinker within the innovation process.

• Imagination - Explore your imagination
• Experience - Examine how your frame of reference is dependent on your experiences
• Situational Awareness - Analyze how situational stimuli impact emotional responses
• Motivation - Define what motivates you as an individual
• Self Reflection - Evaluate thoughts, feelings, events and interests to shape future actions

We

Collaboration and Connection: develop your skills as an individual and the skills of the greater team to collaborate using all the available creative resources and to leverage ideas and concepts throughout the innovation process.

• Contextualization - Formulate a common understanding for the application of a concept or an idea
• Champion - Inspire others to adopt concepts and ideas
• Teamwork - Collaborate with others to reach a common goal
• Communication - Express ideas with diverse communication tools
• Culture - Foster a culture of innovation
• Environmental Engagement - Value the importance of external inputs

Process

Methodology and Application: expose and develop the innovator’s toolbox of approaches and techniques used to explore potential paths within the innovation process.

• Iteration - Revisit, refine, and renew ideas or concepts
• Synthesis - Show how more than one idea may be combined, modified or redefined into something new
• Discovery - Uncover the seeds of concepts and ideas
• Ideation - Develop concepts and ideas
• Experimentation - Utilize tools and processes for the refinement of concepts and ideas
• Filtering - Develop criteria for the refinement and/or selection of ideas
• Knowledge Management - Store ideas for future development

Outcomes

Adoption and Impact: ensure that the innovation process gains momentum and delivers the expected and sometimes serendipitous results to all stakeholders.

• Perspective - Incorporate diverse perspectives to promote acceptance for a concept or idea
• Leadership - Demonstrate leadership skills to promote innovation
• Transformation - Move an idea or concept into purposeful action
• Validation - Confirm the adoption of the concept or idea
• Sustainability - Demonstrate the viability of a concept or idea