Our Health System: H1N1 Influenza - Conflicting Concerns Unclear Plans

Our Health System: H1N1 Influenza - Conflicting Concerns Unclear Plans

Strategy Canvas as a fast visualization and alignment tool

This afternoon the Innovatika innovation lab worksession used a worksheet that walked us through designing an "as is" strategy camvas for a business and then to developing new strategy options that were captured on the "to be" strategy canvas. That one page visualization of how one would approach a customer segment not even targeted yet by your own industry is very powerful to get alignment and start discussions on how to do it and how to make it successful. It allows the current competitors to be shown as well on the same page. I believe tomasz.rudolf@innovatika.com said he was willing to share that worksheet and a link to new materials available from the authors of the Blue Ocean Strategy book.

Fun and Value Discussion Questions!

Hi, last night at dinner I witnessed Mary asking a "big question to her" about the potential implications of the new way open innovation is being done with more external resources.
Implications could be anything from what happens to the R & D internal role to what new jobs will evolve and how will education change.

The insight is that having a question(s) in mind about one's project/passion ready when one is going to be with people at a dinner, lunch or networking in mind before one goes has two benefits:

1. Getting more perspectives quickly
2. Further question refinement and identification...one of the important 'I's" mentioned in Mary Cullinane's description of the Microsoft Process used in the School of the Future.

Idea to accelerate project quality

To get our blog group going I wanted to let you know about a great idea I picked up from John Findlay of Zing last night. He told a story of his daughter, who is not an over-eager student. She is a big fan of some band and designed a 40 page website in their honor over a weekend. She then submitted it to a group that publishes good sites to see if she could qualify to get in. They told her that her site needed more work and what she needed to work on to make it better. She made the fixes and resubmitted - and made it in to the publishing group. I thought this was an amazingly efficient and encouraging way to teach, grade, give feedback and improve.

Now I am thinking about how to take this metaphor and use it to accelerate innovation projects at work. Possibly a project could have a board of advisors that serve as the publishing group and help decide if the quality of planning/research/development merits moving forward. If not they could give expert feedback on what would make the work stronger. Then people would learn rapidly, course correct, and have a stronger effort toward the end goal of commercialization.

Your challenge: discover Fast Fun and Valuable innovation ideas at the 2007 Innovation Immersion conference. Please post your discoveries so the rest of our Fast Fun Value team can leverage your learning.