Mike Amundsen
CA Technologies
@mamund
Fostering Innovation
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What does innovation look like?
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“Managers of the most effective
teams encouraged adaptive ant
colony behavior, while those of less
effective innovation teams
expected members to abide by rigid
plans and rules.”
Ashkenas & Spiegel,
HBR, October 2015
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Ants, not machines.
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Hmmm…
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What conditions can
effectively foster innovation?
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1. A powerful central mission and
a loose central structure.
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“I have neither the place, the time, nor
the desire, to micromanage or make
technical decisions for [my team].”
Steve Urban,
Engineering Mgr. Netflix
August 2015
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2. Frequent interaction to
maximize learning
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“The only sustainable competitive
advantage is an organization's ability
to learn faster than the competition.”
Peter Senge, MIT
Author, “The Fifth Discipline”, 2006
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3. Constant experimentation
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“If everything we do succeeds, then
we are failing, because it means we
are not taking enough risks.”
Deborah Bull
Director of Partners
King’s College, London
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4. Freedom to look for the
next horizon
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“High performers use all kinds of
means and methods to create
strategy, using all of them at once
in an apparently chaotic way.”
Paul Nunes
“Jumping the S-Curve”, 2011
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So…
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Summary
1. Central Mission, Loose Structure
2. Maximize Learning
3. Constant Experimentation
4. Look for the Next Horizon
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“If you want to build a ship, don't
drum up people together to collect
wood and don't assign them tasks
and work, but rather teach them to
long for the endless immensity
of the sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1900-1944
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Mike Amundsen
CA Technologies
@mamund
Fostering Innovation
http://g.mamund.com/2015-11-apistrat-innovation