The Innovation Formula E-Book

Amantha Imber

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 318

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

A practical guide to innovation strategies based on fact, not feeling The Innovation Formula delivers strategies for building a culture where innovation can thrive, based on actual scientific research. Author Amantha Imber holds a PhD in organisational psychology, and has been called upon by a multinational roster of forward-thinking companies--such as Google, Disney, LEGO and Virgin--to improve innovation at all levels. In this book, she shares her strategies and helps you tap into a substantial body of scientific research to help further innovative practice within your own company. For example, rewarding failed innovations can actually be a critical aspect of building an innovation culture. It's rarely done, but it fosters creative thought by signaling to people that failure is tolerated and is a necessary ingredient in the pursuit of innovation. This kind of practical, easily implemented strategy is the lynchpin of cultural change. This guide shares fourteen separate, yet interconnected strategies for improving your company's innovation culture, and provides illustrative examples of real-world companies who are putting these plans into action. Business innovation guides tend to focus on how one company does it. But it's not your company, and just because it worked for Google or Apple doesn't mean that it's right for you. This book is different; these techniques are based on science, not gut feeling, and can apply to any organisation, at any level. * Delve into the science behind successful culture shift * For best results, reward innovation, whether or not it succeeds * Learn the critical elements that foster organisation-wide creativity * Implement practical strategies based on evidence, not anecdotes Fostering a culture of innovation means making your company a safe space for new ideas. Over 95% of business leaders surveyed get it wrong, because intuition cannot compete with data. The Innovation Formula gives you a science-based framework for turning your organisation into one where innovation survives and thrives.

Leseprobe

Creating a culture of ideas is a lot more complicated than letting your corporate Archimedes take a bath. Mercifully, after spending the last decade helping hundreds of companies become more innovative, Dr Amantha Imber has come up with a step-by-step, actionable guide to getting more breakthroughs out of your business. Backed up by interviews with a who's-who of corporate forward-thinkers, I'd urge Amantha's guide upon any executive — we need this book now.

— Michael Bailey, Editor, BRW

Amantha Imber's The Innovation Formula demystifies innovation in a way that any business — from startups to the biggest corporations — will find useful. Imber uncovers strategies that individuals, teams, and leaders of businesses can use to build an innovative culture and mines the gems from real-life innovation experiments at some of the world's most successful businesses. If you need a guide to get innovation going in your business, this is it.

— Joanne Gray, Editor, BOSS magazine, The Australian Financial Review

A fascinatingly scientific and clear approach to creating that all-important culture of innovation within a workforce.

— Chris Kreinczes, Editor and Creative Director, Springwise.com

Imber has ‘democratised' innovation, making it accessible for everyone. The Innovation Formula cuts through all the dense, hard to implement research and provides an accessible and actionable primer for creating an innovative culture. If you read just book on innovation, make it this one.

— Rachael Neumann, Senior Director of Strategy, Eventbrite

Reading this book I started to think how I might describe it to others. I originally thought it was like a juicy peach, which oozed irresistible innovation juice. I read more and believed this book to simply be a shining gem reflecting innovation opportunity into the readers' mind. I then finished the book and realised I have just discovered the most powerful innovation and leadership toolkit that will be by my side for the rest of my career.

— Christopher Stubbs, Manager, Brand and Innovation, Virgin Australia

The science of creating an innovative culture delivered in a practical, real-life way you can use immediately.

— James Thomson, Companies and Markets Editor, The Australian Financial Review

The Innovation Formula is not just another innovation book. It gives practical and relevant examples of what it truly takes to make innovation part of a company's culture.

— Michael Vavakis, Group Head of Human Resources, Lendlease.

The Innovation Formula achieves what few books do — it provides an equally valuable guide to both the experienced innovator as well as those new to the field. I wish I had read this book years ago as it would have helped me avoid the mistakes I made along the way.

— Peter Williams, Chief Edge Officer, Deloitte

THE FORMULA

THE 14 SCIENCE-BASED KEYS FOR CREATING A CULTURE WHERE INNOVATION THRIVES

DR AMANTHA IMBER

First published in 2016 by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 42 McDougall St, Milton Qld 4064 Office also in Melbourne

© Inventium Pty Ltd ATF Inventium Trust 2016

The moral rights of the author have been asserted

National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Creator:

Imber, Amantha, 1977- author.

Title:

The Innovation Formula: the 14 science-based keys for creating a culture where innovation thrives / Amantha Imber.

ISBN:

9780730326663 (pbk.)

9780730326687 (ebook)

Notes:

Includes index.

Subjects:

Organizational change.

Technological innovations.

Research.

Dewey Number:

658.406

All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (for example, a fair dealing for the purposes of study, research, criticism or review), no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, communicated or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission. All inquiries should be made to the publisher at the address above.

Cover design by Wiley

Light bulb cover image by © Chones/Shutterstock; formulas and equations cover image by © BORTEL Pavel — Pavelmidi/Shutterstock

Cover art direction by Lars Wannop

Disclaimer

The material in this publication is of the nature of general comment only, and does not represent professional advice. It is not intended to provide specific guidance for particular circumstances and it should not be relied on as the basis for any decision to take action or not take action on any matter which it covers. Readers should obtain professional advice where appropriate, before making any such decision. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the author and publisher disclaim all responsibility and liability to any person, arising directly or indirectly from any person taking or not taking action based on the information in this publication.

For Shannon. And for Frankie, our joint (and best) innovation.

CONTENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

INNOVATION CULTURE AUDIT

PART I INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL FACTORS

CHAPTER 1 CHALLENGE

CHAPTER 2 AUTONOMY

CHAPTER 3 RECOGNITION

PART II TEAM-LEVEL FACTORS

CHAPTER 4 DEBATE

CHAPTER 5 TEAM SUPPORTIVENESS

CHAPTER 6 COLLABORATION

PART III LEADER-LEVEL FACTORS

CHAPTER 7 SUPERVISOR SUPPORT

CHAPTER 8 SENIOR LEADER SUPPORT

CHAPTER 9 RESOURCING

CHAPTER 10 GOAL CLARITY

PART IV ORGANISATION-LEVEL FACTORS

CHAPTER 11 RISK-TAKING

CHAPTER 12 COHESION

CHAPTER 13 PARTICIPATION

CHAPTER 14 PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

WHAT NOW?

REFERENCES

INDEX

ADVERT

EULA

List of Illustrations

Chapter 1

Figure 1.1

Yerkes–Dodson law

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr Amantha Imber is an innovation psychologist, a best-selling author, and the founder of Australia's leading innovation consultancy, Inventium. Inventium has been recognised as one of Australia's fastest growing companies in the BRW Fast 100 list, and was also awarded the BRW Client Choice Award for Best Management Consultancy in Australia.

With a PhD in organisational psychology, Amantha has helped companies such as Google, Coca-Cola, Disney, Lego, Red Bull, American Express, McDonald's, Virgin Australia, Commonwealth Bank and many others innovate more successfully. Amantha was a finalist in the 2015 Telstra Business Women's Awards.

Amantha is the cocreator of the BRW Most Innovative Companies list, an annual list compiled by Inventium that ranks Australia's top innovators. She has written for publications including The Australian Financial Review, BRW, AustralianBusinessSolutions and SmartCompany and is the author of the best-selling book The Creativity Formula: 50 scientifically proven creativity boosters for work and for life.

Amantha had an international record deal for her debut album Like Samantha without the S, prays to the God of Kevin Spacey and claims to have once been freakishly good at table tennis.

Visit inventium.com.au to find out more about Amantha and her team at Inventium, what they do and what they've been thinking about lately. You can also find Amantha on Twitter (@amantha) and via her website at www.amanthaimber.com.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I don't know about you, but I am the sort of person who loves reading the Acknowledgements section of books! As such, I spent an inordinate amount of time writing this section because a) books don't get written without a lot of help and support from others and b) because I am a big fan of Acknowledgements sections.

First, you would not be reading this book if it were not for Kristen Hammond at Wiley. Kristen, thank you for believing that people would be interested in what I had to write and for being so liberal with your compliments and encouragement along the journey. Thanks also to the rest of the amazing team at Wiley, including Ingrid Bond, Chris Shorten, Alice Berry, Peter Walmsley and Theo Vassili.

Thank you to Jane Thompson, my amazing editor, who made me sound way more succinct and articulate than I actually am!

A big thank-you to Chad Dickerson, Dae Mellencamp, Stuart Smith, Barry Gold, Christine Gilroy, Megan Kachur, Derek O'Donnell, Hugh Molotsi, Mike Finch, Neil Christie, Kirsten O'Doherty, Evan Cohen, Mariah Monaghan, Tiziana Bianco and Wendy Mayer. I am indebted to you for your generosity with your stories and your time. The examples you gave me about what you are each doing in your organisations was inspiring to me, and I am sure are just as inspiring to the book's readers.

Thanks to Jason Fox, who introduced me to the wonderful team at Wiley in the first place, and for being someone I could moan to about the stress of writing a book and running a busy consultancy at the same time.

Thank you to the hundreds of researchers cited in this book. Without the countless hours and mammoth effort that go into conducting research, this book would have consisted of shoddy advice that may or may not have worked. And thank you to my research assistants, Kash and Themis, for helping me uncover a lot of the great research that went into this book.

A huge thank-you to my team at Inventium. You are my favourite part of what I do and I learn so much from you all every single day. I look forward to Mondays because it means I get to hang out with such an amazing, diverse, quirky, funny and clever gang of people. An extra-special thank-you to Michelle Le Poidevin and to Shelley Logan. Mish, you are the best personal assistant anyone could ever hope for — and damn you for being so good that I had to promote you. Shell, you have taught me so much in the three years we have worked together and I can't wait until you are back from sailing around the world so we can continue the journey.

Thank you to Inventium's clients, who allow my team and I to apply our research and methodologies. You truly are the best group of clients that consultants could ever hope for — you are smart yet humble, and are true innovators yourselves.

A massive thank-you to my mum, Doris, who gave me the writing gene in the first place. Thank you for editing the very first draft of this book and making it infinitely better with all your suggestions. Thank you to my dad, Martin, who also fastidiously looked over the very first draft of this book and put all of his and Mum's changes into a Word document (which was no small feat, considering my mum is computer ‘challenged' and there were a lot of red marks over the first draft of this book). Thank you both for being my biggest fans, for bringing me up to have a passion for both science and creativity, and for instilling in me that I could be anything I wanted to be.

Thank you to my amazing husband, Shannon, who walked to get me chai lattes every single Saturday and Sunday morning as I sat at home on my MacBook working on this book while our daughter, Frankie, slept soundly. Thank you for being one of those rare men who truly does treat parenthood and household chores as a partnership, which in turn has given me the time to run Inventium and write a book and be a mum (and also a wife, somewhere in the mix!). What I do would simply not be possible without you.

And finally, thank you to the most amazing little girl a mum could ever hope for. Frankie, you make me laugh and smile so much every single day. And without your amazing superpower of being the world's best and most predictable little sleeper, this book would most definitely not have been written.

INTRODUCTION

My very first ‘adult' job — and by ‘adult' job I mean that it was not the one that involved dressing up as a witch waitress at Witches in Britches, or the job sewing hats for a local clothing store, or the job singing and playing guitar for people who had consumed a few too many beers in pubs — was as the human resources manager (HRM) for an Australian security firm. I was in the final stages of completing my doctoral thesis in organisational psychology and was excited to enter the world of full-time office working.