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Corporate Corruption Of Innovation

Phil McKinney
Phil McKinney
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Segment 1: Corporate Corruption Of Innovation
Phases of corporate adoption of innovation

  • Ignore – hope that it goes away
  • It’s for others – not an issue for us
  • Maybe its something we should look into
  • URGENT – We are behind

Chief Innovation Officers does not equal innovation

How do you know if an organization is serious about innovation?

  • Have interlatized the importance of innovation
  • Has adopted innovation metrics that are transparent to everyone
  • Have allocated dedicated resources (headcount, budget)

If a company wants to make innovation a core pf their culture and business success

  1. Find the hidden creative individuals within the organization.  Give them the green light to come out of hiding.
  2. Find successess – no matter how small
  3. Find Failures
  4. Tell Stories
  5. Allocate resources
  6. Set targets

The objective of the organization adopting innovation is NOT TO:

  • create a new department/organization for the sake of creating turf/control
  • Creating red tape — that will come
  • Faking the results by finding metrics that make you look good

The objective of the organization adopting innovation is TO:

  • Find those "creatives" already in the organization and support them
  • Motivate your people
  • Ignite the passion
  • Have REAL impact with REAL results

Segment 2: Killer Question of the Week

"What assumptions do we have about how we create new ideas/products/services?"


Segment 3: Closing Thoughts

"Change before you have to."  Jack Welch’s
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Phil McKinney is an innovator, podcaster, author, and speaker. He is the retired CTO of HP. Phil's book, Beyond The Obvious, shares his expertise and lessons learned on innovation and creativity.


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