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Creating Team BasedInnovation Engines
Toria Thompson,Organizational Patterns
Current Paradigm: innovation requires...
The right people
The right map
The right culture
But…
There are no maps, only a compass.
There are no roads, only a vague idea of North.
And you can’t wait until conditions are right
you must act now.
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
― Henry Ford
“Most businesses die from indigestion rather than starvation.”
-- Tom Thomisonco-Founder
HolacracyOne
Ideas are plentiful...
If we’ve got a bad idea,
we need to know nowbefore we expend all our resources.
What do we know?
Where is the Yes?Act and
Observe
What do we know?
Where is the Yes?Act and
Observe
And if it’s a valuable idea,
we need to stop when we’ve delivered the highest value not when the project plan says
we’re done.
How the customer explained it…
How the analyst designed it …
How the programmer wrote it …
Here’s how innovation looks today…. at least with software
What the customer really needed….
So how will we recognize the most innovative ideas?
We outvote or ignore the contradictory data.
We hire heroic leaders to be filters but
unwittingly we setup a single point of failure.
We make team decisions which often lead to “bloated” actions
where we solve more than is needed.
Innovation is grown, not found
We need a model that embraces this fundamental truth.
Value Driven Work
Distributed Decisions
Big and Visible
Iterative & Incremental
Idea
Idea
Define
Design
Build
Test
Release
Linear
Iterative & Incremental
Design
Build
Test
Define
Review & Adjust for
Value
Design
Build
Test
Define
Review & Adjust for
Value
Design
Build
Test
Define
First chance to review. Oh no!
Value Delivered
Done
?
Done
?
It takes a team ...
…to see the value
Hose for watering
Spear for hunting
Leaf for shade
Wall to keep us
safe
Rope for binding
Value Driven Work:
Distributed Decisions:
Clarify Roles & Accountability
Establish Point of Awareness
What are the minimally sufficient
conditions to achieve value?
What are we even talking
about?
Who can make this decision?
We’re going in the wrong direction!
Big and Visible Planning and Action
The best teams know…
Every action is an experiment
with only one of two outcomes.
Did it move us closer to our goal or farther away?
Each iteration is a chance to begin again.
Try this: This week is an experiment. Your actions fueled by your best thinking and expertise will set loose a number of reactions and you have no idea what will catalyze as a result. It is actually beyond your control. On Monday morning come to work and look around with wonder at what your actions created.
Then let it all go.
Now, start again by asking yourself:
“What actions do I take this week to deliver as much value as I can
given the landscape as it looks right now?”
Practically speaking…
Organizational Patterns human scale – evolutionary – value driven
Toria Thompson303-746-3161
toria@organizationalpatterns.com
Thank you!