Innovation-Action Training: if you are coming...
Submitted by Katherine William... on Thu, 26/11/2009 - 10:40
If you are booked on to the Innovation-Action training, please have a think about challenges you would like to address on the day. On Feb 11th there will be user centred design session and an opportunity to use techniques learned to address a genuine challenge that you face. If you come on the 12th the sessions will be on open source innovation and learning from other sectors. Again, you will have a chance to use what you learn to address a real issue facing you. Of course, you can come to both days (20% discount).
In order to make the sessions as relevant as possible to delegates, it would be good to hear from you on challenges you think it would be useful to tackle.
Suggestions:
- Increasing legacy giving
- Making the most of volunteers
- Valuing volunteers
Add your own suggestions and nearer the time we'll have a group poll.
I'd like to explore new and/or improved ways to deliver products, services and support to our members and stakeholders. So, for example, how we can develop & test innovative solutions to anticipated future problems people will face and then take the successful ideas to market.
It is often said that there is no such thing as a new idea, (usually followed by the assertion that it is just a manned of dressing the old ones up in different ways).
A challenge for Innovation Action is to lay this one to the sword!
In a world where funders, trustees, colleagues, partners are all demanding 'Innovation' I'd like to find ways of : better identifying opportunities; keeping core matters fresh and cutting edge; importing successful ideas from other areas with impunity; innovation in collaboration - with sector partners, with other sectors.
Another area of interest is change and changemanagement (which have obvious links to innovation).
Hello, I will be running the session on crowdsourcing and setting up your own innovation network at 'Unlocking your organisation's creative potential' and I'd be very interested to hear what that means to people. What rewards do you anticipate, what problems too? And at the risk of bombarding you with questions, what does innovation mean to you anyway - new products and services? New fundraising mechanisms? New types of partnership?
A long list Jonathan! Of course we all need new ideas, but I would argue that the problem is that there are too many! I've heard it said that ideas are in themselves worthless. Increasingly it's more about how you excute them and how quickly you can get them to market. The battle is turning away from intellectual property and defensiveness and towards speed-to-market and collaborativeness. Your idea of importing ideas from other areas with impunity really strikes a chord here and I'll ponder this.
Hello Rob, an interesting challenge. Perhaps the session on service innovation will help (11/2)? I have had some success in using prototyping in non-industrial applications and it's the first stage of developing and testing innovative solutions and a lot cheaper than market research!
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I very much hope it will help David. I'm also looking forward to my 30min conversation with you that I get for being an early booker onto the event so hopefully we can explore this in more depth then too.
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A life mentor onces said to me 'an idea is useless unless you can get someone to buy it!' So you may be right - quality rather than quantity!
Great. Just to be clear, Livework are running the service design workshop although I'd be happy to talk to you anyway!