Innovate! The employee's guide to innovation
Get more people to submit innovations to your innovation program
This practical and motivational book takes you from the beginning to the end of the process of innovation. From how to find the time to do innovative work, how to choose an innovation to focus on, how to get the support you need, how to find the mental tools you need to analyse a problem, or choose a solution, to a step - by-step process that will help you to develop great innovations.
In this book you will learn how to turn frustrations into innovations. How to solve problems. Improve the way you work. Develop innovations that add value to your company or your own life.
CONTENTS OF INNOVATE!
What you need to know to innovate.
1. The quest for magic-becoming great at work.
2. The six habits of magical champions.
3. Innovation is a hero's journey.
4. Our magical backpack.
5. The magical world of the brain.
6. The left wing. The mechanics of the known.
7. The shuttle to the right wing.
8. The right wing. The imagination of the unknown.
9. Planning a pathway through the maze.
Putting it all together to innovate at work.
10. The quest for magic.
11. Choose your quest.
12 .Our starting point.
13. Our analysis.
14. Possible solutions.
15. Evaluation criteria.
16. Chosen solution.
17. Implementation.
18. Measure results.
19. The magic continues.
A practical guide to innovation in organizations.
WHY leaders give this book as a gift to their employees
When implementing an innovation or continuous improvement programme in an organization, many leaders experience a similar frustration. While it is relatively easy to develop platforms for online submission of ideas, processes for assessing innovations, and generous reward systems to encourage employees to submit innovative ideas or business cases, there is one missing link that causes most innovation processes to fail. Employee involvement.
- For many employees, being asked to come up with an innovation, and implement it to the point of achieving a result, is a daunting challenge. One that requires them to combine beliefs, skills and practices associated with creativity, problem solving, and project management into a magical potion of imagination and achievement. One that requires employees to go on a hero’s journey in which they leave their comfort zones, and travel into the unknown.
- While consulting to many organizations on innovation, we discovered the secret of employee participation. Employees get excited about contributing to an innovation or continuous improvement program when instead of a dry demand for a result, it is transformed into a magical quest. One that stimulates their imagination and creativity.
- This book is written to encourage, inspire and help the individual employee to develop and implement practical innovations that will add real value to your business.
- Give this book to every employee as a gift of development and enjoy the creative energy that gets unleashed in your organization.
What this book will help you, the leader, to do.
Give this book to all your employees as part of an innovation system. This will help you to:
- Develop a culture of innovation in your organization.
- Empower your employees. Help them to master the skills of innovation and success.
- Encourage more people to submit innovations to your innovation system or program.
- Develop your team in a critical skill needed for the future success of any organization - the ability to Innovate!