Contents

List of Worksheets

Preface

Introduction: What Is Innovation?

The Structure of This Book

WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES

PART 1: The Practice of Innovation

Forget, Unlearn, Dismantle

What if?

Innovative Connections

Levels of Innovation

Alternative Uses

Jobs that Need to be Done

A New TV Program

Storytelling

Love of Failure

Visioning

Green Innovation

Practical Individual Creative Skills

PART 2: The Innovative Personality and Skill Sets

Inquisitiveness

Building Networks

The Rebel

Personality Trait: The Next Box #1

Personality Trait: The Next Box #2

Personality Trait: The Next Box #3

Design an Experiment

Building Innovation DNA into Your Life

Creative Problem Solving

Brainwriting

The Problem-Solving Games

Analytical Thinking Test

Test of Creativity

Leadership and Teambuilding

Building a Winning Team

Teams and Traditional Work Units: Some Differences

PART 3: The Culture of Innovation

Determine Your Current Culture

Open Source Innovation

Killing the Naysayer

Where do babies (innovative ideas) come from?

Failure Notebook

Faces of Innovation

Event/Pattern/Structure

Trend Spotting

Creative Collaboration

Building an Innovative Culture I

Building an Innovative Culture II

Scaffolding: Toward a Culture of Innovation

PART 4: The Innovative Process

Open Source Innovation

Deep Inquiry

Creative Collage Making

Disassembling

Question Circle

Deep Empathy

Photo Wall

Can You Hear Me Now?

Redesign Rooms

Two Circle Critique

Force Field Analysis

Litmus Test

Attribute Listing

Blue Ocean Technique

Club Med Exercise

Designing an Innovation Room

SCAMPER

Posters and Quotes

50 Innovation Techniques: Addendums

Step #1: Probe the Constituency: Questions to Consider

Step #2: Observe the Real Situation: Questions to Consider

Step #3: Develop New Concepts: Questions to Consider

Step #4: Converge and Build Prototypes: Questions to Consider

Step #5: Implementation Process: Questions to Consider

Categories of Innovation

Accident as Innovation

Quotes

Innovation Cases

References

Index

About the Author