Space To Create

In this presentation, the evening keynote from Intranet Reloaded 2014, I talk about using intranets and 'the digital workplace' to stimulate creativity and support innovation.

Taking cues from evolving trends in office design and looking at how creative teams actually work I presented 8 ways that an intranet can contribute to creating a culture of creativity and innovation and provide the functional tools to turn ideas into new products.

Transcript

1. SPACE TO CREATE Presented by Paul-Jervis Heath at Intranet Reloaded in Berlin on Thursday, 10 April 2014. @pauljervisheath #intrel14 Using the Intranet to Stimulate and Support Innovation
2. Hello! I’m Paul-Jervis Heath and I’m a designer and innovation consultant. @pauljervisheath #intrel14
3. Physical workplaces are increasingly designed to reflect how we work. Are digital workplaces? @pauljervisheath #intrel14
4. • Cohesive, multidisciplinary teams converge around a single challenge. • Innovative organisations exhibit a peer culture. • Diversity encourages innovation. Teams are often globally distributed. • Collaborations introduce fresh thinking and perspectives. • Work practices promote iteration, synthesis and prototyping. • Lessons learnt on one challenge directly feed organisational improvement. What does innovation look like? @pauljervisheath #intrel14
5. Highly dynamic organisation structures enable cohesive, multidisciplinary teams to converge around a single challenge. @pauljervisheath #intrel14
6. A peer culture pervades and encourages creativity from everyone. @pauljervisheath #intrel14
7. Diversity encourages innovation. This can mean teams are globally distributed. @pauljervisheath #intrel14
8. Collaborations introduce fresh thinking and perspectives. @pauljervisheath #intrel14
9. CHAPTER TITLE. Work practices promote iteration, synthesis and prototyping. @pauljervisheath #intrel14
10. Architects vs. Scientists: synthesis as a creative problem-solving strategy. @pauljervisheath #intrel14
11. Lessons learnt on one challenge directly feed improvement. @pauljervisheath #intrel14
12. Physical workplaces reflect and support these behaviours. @pauljervisheath #intrel14
13. Every team needs a space. @pauljervisheath #intrel14
14. Build facilities to experiment. @pauljervisheath #intrel14
15. Where does knowledge live? How do you augment it? @pauljervisheath #intrel14
16. Your colleagues are awesome! @pauljervisheath #intrel14
17. Encourage spontaneity. @pauljervisheath #intrel14
18. Invite your colleagues, customers and partners to innovate with you. @pauljervisheath #intrel14
19. Bring the fun. @pauljervisheath #intrel14
20. Create a vibe, generate buzz, build energy. @pauljervisheath #intrel14
21. For most organisations generating ideas is not the problem. Turning ideas into tangible outputs is the problem. @pauljervisheath #intrel14
22. • I gave you 6 features of creative organisations… • Cohesive, multidisciplinary teams converge around a single challenge. • Innovative organisations exhibit a peer culture. • Diversity encourages innovation. Teams are often globally distributed. • Collaborations introduce fresh thinking and perspectives. • Work practices promote iteration, synthesis and prototyping. • Lessons learnt on one challenge directly feed organisational improvement. What did you say? @pauljervisheath #intrel14
23. • I gave you 8 ways your intranet can support creative work and innovation… • Create dynamic team spaces, make them trivial to create. • Use the intranet and internal audiences to try things out and experiment. • Make it clear where knowledge should be stored and make it easy to find again. • Enable people to find other experts. • Encourage people to come together spontaneously to solve problems. • Use open innovation platforms to invite customers, suppliers and partners to innovate with you. • Companies that socialise together are more cohesive. Use the intranet to cement social relationships. • Show the activity to create a vibe, generate buzz and build energy. And then what did you say? @pauljervisheath #intrel14
24. • People focus too much on ideation and the moment of inspiration. • For most organisations generating ideas is not the problem. • Turning ideas into tangible outputs is the problem. • Identify and incubate good ideas into strong concepts. • Turn strong concepts into prototypes. • Your intranet can support that process. Wait! What was that last point? @pauljervisheath #intrel14
25. CARRY ON THE CONVERSATION… I love to talk about creativity, innovation and design. I’ll be here for the rest of the conference so feel free to come and have a chat. ! You can also tweet at me @pauljervisheath.