Idea to Value - Creativity and Innovation with Nick Skillicorn

I was so inspired that today I recorded a mini-podcast episode of the Idea to Value podcast all about it.

The 5 reasons are:

1. See the evolution of your creative output
2. Be inspired to generate new ideas
3. Overcome previous challenges
4. Evaluate your creative productivity
5. Assess your trends and direction

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In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Dr Ralph-Christian Ohr about ambidexterity, dual innovation and what it takes to scale up new ventures.

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#podcast #innovation #ambidextrous

Rather than there being a single best way to set up an ambidextrous organisation, it requires a set of key principles which all innovation teams and companies need to display.

• 00:01:15 - How Ralph got started on Dual Innovation
• 00:03:30 - The challenge of exploring and exploiting innovation at the same time
• 00:07:30 - How innovation dies at the handovers, especially when there are separate business units for innovation
• 00:09:30 - Steve Blank recently mentioned that scaling is the crux of ambidexterity
• 00:15:30 - What is required to manage the space in between the core business and innovation units
• 00:20:30 - The principles required for successfully delivering dual innovation
• 00:23:30 - Where innovation should sit is based on what scope of business it is trying to change
• 00:25:00 - Idea progress needs a validation process to identify learning loops

• Ralph on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralphchristianohr/

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In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Michael Easter, author of The Comfort Crisis and Professor of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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#podcast #creativity #comfort #survival

We speak about the dangers our society faces by wanting to be more comfortable, and how we can improve our creativity by pushing our comfort barriers.

• 00:02:30 - The benefits of embracing discomfort
• 00:04:30 - How our evolution made us avoid risk
• 00:05:30 - Why we are no longer willing to be bored and the negative aspects that this brings,
• 00:09:30 - how being bored can be good for your creativity
• 00:12:30 - The importance of getting away from screens and
• 00:14:45 - People need a certain degree of challenge in order to be healthy, and why we evolved to be afraid
• 00:18:45 - Michael's experience in a highly dangerous place
• 00:21:30 - Why people want to keep the status quo, and how we need to take small risks even if they feel bigger
• 00:24:00 - You can break your routine to prevent yourself living on autopilot

• The Comfort Crisis book: https://amzn.to/3sE2UPG
• Michael's website: https://eastermichael.com
• Michael on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michael_easter/

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In today's episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Ashleigh Wilson, founder and CEO of Auditmate.

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#podcast #innovation #elevator

• 00:01:00 - Ashleigh's life as an elevator baby
• 00:03:00 - The moral compass required to find what customers actually need, in an established industry
• 00:07:00 - A company should give permission to be human
• 00:09:45 - A story about when there was an emotional disconnect in the team
• 00:16:30 - People over profits
• 00:19:00 - People are always going to push boundaries

• Auditmate: https://www.auditmate.com
• Ashleigh's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleigh-wilson-she-her-01131285/

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In today's episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Jim Euchner. Jim is Honorary Professor at Aston Business School (UK) and Editor in Chief of Research-Technology Management, a peer-reviewed journal for practitioners of innovation, technology and research management. He was previously Vice President of Global Innovation at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, where he led the development of new businesses and helped launch five businesses on three continents.

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#leanstartup #podcast #innovation

We speak about his new book Lean Startup in Large Organizations: Overcoming Resistance to Innovation, and his experiences bringing new ideas to established companies.

• 00:02:00 - Lean Startup practices (as discussed with Steve Blank)
• 00:05:00 - The importance of Innovation accounting
• 00:06:00 - How there is often resistance in large organisations, especially the impact on the core business and possible cannibalisation
• 00:09:30 - Jim's example of innovation in the tyre industry, and tracking performance throughout the process
• 00:15:00 - The problems of cannibalisation of revenue, but also cannibalisation of focus and resources
• 00:19:45 - The different skills required throughout handovers in the innovation process
• 00:24:30 - If you have an innovation portfolio, it allows you to try more risky ideas

• Jim on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimeuchner
• Jim's website: https://jimeuchner.com
• Jim's book: Lean Startup in Large Organizations: Overcoming Resistance to Innovation: https://amzn.to/3HZf76G

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In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Alex Pang, founder of Strategy and Rest, a consultancy devoted to helping companies and individuals harness the power of rest to shorten our workdays, while staying focused and productive. Alex is also the author of Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less and his new book SHORTER: WORK BETTER, SMARTER, AND LESS– HERE'S HOW.

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#podcast #4dayweek

In this episode, we speak about why companies should consider reducing the total number of working hours for their employees, or even working only 4 days a week, and the benefits this can bring.

• 00:01:45 - Alex's background as a futurist in Silicon Valley, and how it brought him to the realisation around doing your best work with deliberate rest
• 00:05:47 - The reason why people think they need to display their busyness and the history of hustle culture
• 00:09:00 - The problem with associating time worked with productivity
• 00:11:45 - The difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivators
• 00:12:00 - The optimum amount of time required to get work done
• 00:16:30 - Moving towards a 4 Day workweek and getting the same amount of work done
• 00:18:45 - How to set up teams to collaborate when working fewer hours, whether in the office or remote
• 00:24:00 - The stress of doing all of your work online and trying to be visible
• 00:29:30 - What a change to a 4 Day Workweek might be like for a company

• Strategy & Rest: https://www.strategy.rest/
• Book: Shorter: Work Better, Smarter and Less - Here's How: https://amzn.to/3HGE1YL

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In today's episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with award-winning author and innovation specialist Whitney Johnson.

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#growth #innovation

With nearly 2 million followers on Linkedin, she is one of the most popular speakers and experts on innovation, and we speak about her new book Smart Growth: How to Grow your People to Grow your Company.

• 00:00:45 - Whitney's journey from Wall Street to her time with Clayton Christensen, and finally to her work as a disruption advisor
• 00:03:00 - What is growth and the S-Curve popularised by E. Rogers?
• 00:06:00 - Why growth does not feel consistent, and why it can be so slow and frustrating at the beginning
• 00:09:30 - How people can be in a state of Flow in their S-Curve for a long time.
• 00:12:00 - Why it is so hard to create and innovate as you get older, and the importance of starting with small steps to form a habit
• 00:16:30 - Your journey of moving through several S-Curves throughout your life, and sometimes multiple simultaneously
• 00:21:00 - Using S-Curves to get the best growth performance out of teams, and entire companies as a portfolio of S-Curves
• 00:26:00 - How to have a challenging conversation with someone else who might need to grow, but it might become uncomfortable

• Smart Growth Book: https://smartgrowthbook.com/
• Whitney Johnson's Website: https://whitneyjohnson.com
• Whitney on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitneyjohnson/

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#PR #storytelling #innovation

We speak about what it means to craft a powerful narrative, authenticity, and storytelling for new innovations.

• 00:01:30 - Donna's background as a journalist and working with innovators in Silicon Valley
• 00:04:00 - Why you cannot just market your products based on technical features ("High Tech Poetry"), as the customer might not care
• 00:06:45 - Disruption is not an effective innovation strategy, and many innovation leaders may suffer from "Ego Engineering"
• 00:10:45 - Why some departments are not keen on new innovations because they don't know what to do with it
• 00:12:30 - Storytelling skills to connect with customers, and where the best ideas come from moments of discovery
• 00:18:30 - Determining if there really is a need for your product, or if you have just developed a solution without a problem
• 00:21:45 - Finding the truth for an authentic narrative, compared to myths and lies

• LMG PR: https://www.lmgpr.com
• Donna on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donnal2/

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#creativity #podcast #improvisation

We speak about what jazz has to do with business, improvisational organisations and what it takes for teams to thrive in a chaortic world.

• 00:02:30 - Natalie's history with jazz, and learning how improvisation exists in organisations
• 00:08:00 - The structure behind teams improvising together
• 00:11:00 - Creativity is no longer a luxury in companies, it is now a necessity
• 00:13:15 - Creativity requires toggling between wonder and rigor to solve problems
• 00:15:45 - In order to innovate and be creative, you need to be willing to cede control
• 00:17:00 - The "Three I" framework: Inquiry, Improvisation, Intuition
• 00:21:00 - Intuition is about pattern recognition

• Figure 8 Thinking: https://www.figure8thinking.com/
• Book: Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work: https://amzn.to/3rC4pMh
• Natalie on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalienixonphd
• Natalie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/natwnixon

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In today's episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Prof Roger Kneebone. Prof Kneebone is the author of Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery and directs the Imperial College Centre for Engagement and Simulation Science (ICCESS) in London.

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#expertise #creativity #practice

We speak about what it takes to go from beginner to expert, the hurdles and changes along the way and the impact of expertise on creative thinking.

• 00:03:00 - What it means to be an expert, and how it requires wisdom
• 00:05:00 - The apprentice, journeyman, master progression
• 00:07:00 - What it feels like to go through these stages, across various industries
• 00:08:45 - The starting stages of being a journeyman may feel quite boring and frustrating as you build the fundamentals
• 00:12:30 - Nobody cares about your accomplishments, they only care about what you can do for your audience
• 00:15:00 - The dangers of making errors when you are responsible for yourself
• 00:18:00 - The balance of repetition what has worked before and beginning to be creative
• 00:23:00 - You never reach the status of an pure expert who knows everything, you instead continually develop expertise
• 00:27:30 - You need to go a lot of time and deliberate practice before you reach mastery
• 00:31:00 - Building expertise almost always involves a support network around you
• 00:35:00 - The curse of expertise and how it can make you less creative

• Prof Kneebone's faculty page: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/r.kneebone
• Expert: Understanding the path to Mastery: https://amzn.to/34D0x5U
• Countercurrent podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/countercurrent-conversations-with-professor-roger/id1121211583

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