Innovation CultureCreativity, Motivation and Leadership

Adrián Perreau de Pinninck, Ph.D.

R&D Coach @ Intelligent Pharma

What is innovation?Innovation is the creation of better more effective products, processes, services, technologies or ideas

Keys to Innovation

Leadership - ability to enlist the aid of others

Motivation - tool to achieve a goal

Environment - surroundings, physical and emotional

Creativity - the mental processes of creation

LeadershipAny group of people is essentially a tribe

Tribal Maturity StagesIt’s all about how you relate and what language you use

Servant LeaderAchieving results by giving priority attention to the needs of their colleagues

Noble Cause, Values, Goals With a potent vision of where they are going, they will figure out how to get there

Extrinsic MotivationIt only works for repetitive tasks.The creative capacity is reduced.

Intrinsic MotivationGetting them to act because of their need for:Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose.

Achieving ChangeDirect the Rider, Motivate the Elephant, Shape the Path

Innovation-friendly EnvironmentRemove separations, movable furniture, whiteboard walls, post-it notes, accessible info

Knowledge SharingWikis and Visual management tools Seminars and Workshops

Continuous ImprovementKaizen - evolutionary and incrementalKaikaku - revolutionary and radical

Creation ProcessFrom problem description to solution

Gathering InformationGoals and Objectives, Information tree, Mind map, Defining paradigm, Dominant ideas, Hidden assumptions

Generating AlternativesChallenging assumptions, fractionation, reversal, analogies & metaphors, random stimulation, ...

EvaluationFilter bad ideas, experiment with the good ones and implement those that worked

Group Creation Techniques

Brainstorming

6 Thinking Hats Work Cafe

Retrospective

Open Innovation

Conclusions

A company is a tribe with it’s own culture

As an integral part of the complex system you can only influence it from within

Innovation can come from anyone, be prepared

Setting up the appropriate environment takes resources, if done correctly it will pay off

Bibliography

Management 3.0: Leading agile developers, developing agile leaders

Tribal Leadership: Leveraging natural groups to build a thriving organization

Switch: How to change things when change is hard

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

Lateral Thinking: Creativity step by step