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Why does
your organization
need more innovation?
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AH - HA
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1. Record ideas
2. Recall ideas
3. Recycle ideas
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How are you working on your business
Differently
To enhance profit?
To upsell?
Whats stopping you?
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How to KILL a Big Idea

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Creativity vs. Innovation
Creativity is the process of developing new
or interesting ideas.
Innovation is the process of transforming
creative ideas into valuable or profitable solutions.
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Culture eats strategy for breakfast!
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From efficiency of
Business As Usual (BAU) to
Innovation As Usual (IAU)
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What important strategic goals can be
accelerated through the use of innovation?

What new growth opportunities should be
explored by innovative techniques?

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How does Merrill intend to position
itself or distinguish itself from its
competitors, and how can you use
innovation to support those goals?


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If you were starting from scratch, and there
were no hindrances,
no obstacles, and
no limit to your resources,
if anything was possible,
what would your business look like?


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How are you working on your business
Differently
To enhance profit?
To upsell?
What are you afraid of?


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Series 3
Series 2
Series 1

Innovation
Learning
Knowledge Management
Leadership
Teambuilding, Communication, Diversity
Technical
Quality, 6 Sigma, Productivity, Cost Reduction
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Failure to understand
customers, employees,
stakeholders
Inspire
curiosity
Question
assumptions
Lackluster ideas
Challenge current
perspectives
Think
differently
Aversion to risk
taking
Create
freedom
Experiment
Innovation
Challenges
Poor execution
Drive
discipline
Get things
done
Driving Innovation
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inside
Investigate
Innovate
Initiate
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Depth
Distance
Determination
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implementation impact
identification ideation
investigation
Depth
Distance
Determination
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Champion creativity and
innovation will follow
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Your mind is a container of possibilities
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We purchase wisdom.
We use products.
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Customers want the
product of your product.
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Change creates stability
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Change your pitch
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Create a winning team
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Change
Growth
Profit
Competition
Acceleration
Improvement
Increases
Decreases
Problems
Goals
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Few of us can rely on the past
we have to invent our own future.
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Every product we make will
be obsolete in 2 years.

The only question is who will be
making the new products.
- Bill Gates
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Whats your vision?
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Focus 100% on the problem
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Are there
important forces
that shape your
industrys
competition?
Rivalry
among
existing
competitor
s
Threat of
new
entrants
Bargaining
power of
buyers
Bargainin
g power
of
suppliers
Menace
of
substitute
products
or
services
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Choose to do
things differently
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stop shoulding all over yourself
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what if? why not? whats next?
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Theres an
app for that!
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Mobile, Social and search have become more
meaningful that any website home page.

What might be simplified, adapted, magnified?
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Now over 2.8
billion social
media profiles
worldwide
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Right
solution
Wrong
problem
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The types of innovation cultures
Be ridiculous &
willing to fail.
Create a
passionate &
inter-connected
innovation dept.
Have a strong
internal focus.
Keep the pipeline
flowing.
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are you slow to change?
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you have to be quicker
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What do you hunt?






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question everything




repeat
refine
reflect
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Take out your paper.
Think of something that's making you
anxious.
What do I know? about this issue.
What dont I know?
What can I Influence?
What cant I Influence?
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some pains
you cant cure
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Confusion demands definition.
Uncertainty demands clarity.
Weakness requires your focus.
Help members find confidence.


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What drives innovation?
Increasing rate of shifts
Increasing customer expectancies
Increasing amount & access to data/information
Decreasing cost of entry


Innovation
Opportunity
Development
Opportunity
Identification
Opportunity
Capture
Focus
Shaping
Development
Business Case
Validation & Launch
Filtering
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Realistic Solution
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Commitment to the
innovation vision trumps
funding, technology,
gold-plated degrees,
and culture.
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The real trend is
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Is there a disruptive way to solve a problem?
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Lack of innovation
is a choice
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Customers MUST be
part of the co-creation
process
Innovation is not something a
special team doesit is
something which must be
ingrained in the mindsets and
behaviors of
everyoneincluding your
customers.
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Rethink expertise
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DOMAINS
Strategic
Alignment
Motivation
Culture
Environment
Meeting
structure,
function &
design
Budget
Competition
Objectives,
context &
communication
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The survival of your cadence
could hinge on your ability
to: receive, grasp & act
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Imagine
Inspire
Instill
Involve
Innovation
Culture
Building Blocks of Innovation Culture
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Are YOU ready for change?
inside
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Failure is the
first cousin of success
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It challenges the status quo
People hunger
for stability
amid change.
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Wealth is not gained by
perfecting the known,
but by seizing the unknown.
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You cant
win if you
dont take
risks
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Work hard on your job
and work harder on yourself.
Focus on accomplishment- not activity.
Manage priorities- not time.
Be the person others can count on
to get things done.
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The value of your idea lies in
using it.
- Jim Feldman

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What am I doing differently tomorrow
that will obtain better results than
I achieved today?
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You are Experts
that have
Your Wisdom
in order.
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How you think is
as important
as what you
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