These
50 exercises are the perfect way to get employees excited about the concept of
innovation, develop their innovation skills, build an ongoing capacity for
innovation and introduce an easy-to-use innovation process. Participants will learn
how to do visioning, seek innovations in a certain industry, feel comfortable
challenging the norm, generate a large number of new ideas in a short amount of
time – and that’s just the beginning. As they work through the exercises,
they’ll have fun, learn to think better and be motivated to apply what they
learned back on the job.
Yes,
you can teach your organization to innovate
50 Activities for Building
Innovation
By
Richard Brynteson
If
you’re like many leaders today, innovation has become a top priority. The
question is: How can you build a culture in your organization that thinks in
new ways and creates new products and processes over and over again? With 50 Activities for Building Innovation, you have a proven blueprint for creating
centers of innovation throughout your organization that do just that.
The
50 fully reproducible exercises are organized into four chapters:
●
The
Practice of Innovation: Give participants a shot in the
arm and elevate their sense of innovation.
●
The
Innovative Personality and Skill Sets: Build individual,
group and organizational skills.
●
The
Culture of Innovation: Create a culture that produces ongoing
innovations.
●
The
Innovative Process: Encourage innovation using a proven,
five-step process.
Also
included are questions to ask during each stage of the innovation process,
inspirational quotes and sayings you can post and examples of innovation
initiatives from the author’s own experience.
You
can use these flexible exercises in any order and adapt them to any time frame.
With this powerful resource, it’s easy to shake up your next organization-wide
innovation training, lunch-and-learn session, problem-solving meeting or team building
event – and start building innovation into the DNA of your organization.
300 pp
Below is a list of the purpose of each activity by part:
PART 1
First Steps to Innovation
Productively Using What if?
Creating Connections
Levels of Innovation
Think Outside the Box
Market Opportunities
Nourishing Creativity
Storytelling
Tolerating Failure
Visioning
Green Innovation
Practical Creative Skills
PART 2
Building Inquisitiveness
Building Networks
Challenging Assumptions
Changing Thinking Roles
Changing Roles
Changing Roles (Forced
Associations)
Test the Customer Experience
Plan Innovation
Creative Problem Solving
Generating More Ideas
PART 3
Open Source Innovation
Kill the Idea Killers
Sources of Innovation
Real Learning from Failure
Faces of Innovation
A System of Innovation
Indentify Trend, Then Innovate
Creative Collaboration
Build an Innovative Culture
I
Build an Innovative Culture
II
Personnel Innvoation Readiness
PART 4
Learn Acute Observation
Deep Inquiry
Marketing Innovation
Re-engineering Processes
Formulate Deep Questions
Deep Empathy
Using Visuals to Innovate
Purposeful Brainstorming
Practice Innovation
Institute a Critique Process
Implement Innovation
Analyze an Innovation
Organized Brainstorming
Identifying New Market Space
Innovating Services
Methodical Innovation
SCAMPER Brainstorming