A talk I gave about Innovation Parkour as part of the TED University program at TED India in May 2009/

1. Innovation Parkour at TEDIndia
Photo ©:TED / James Duncan Davidson

2. Michael Anton Dila
Photo ©:TED / James Duncan Davidson

3. I like to play with fire.

4. Work makes us
stupid.

6. Can we design a way for ordinary people to
hack the limitations of work?

7. @michaeldila@mmilan

8. Innovation takes a long time
Innovation can only be done
by a special kind of person
Innovation is expensive
3 MYTHS

9. We want people to understand the power
of being more innovative.

10. MANN GULCH

11. MISSOULA
SMOKEJUMPERS

12. WALL OF FLAME
50 FT HIGH
300 FT DEEP
700 FT / MIN

13. FLASH OF
GENIUS

14. SAFETY

15. a moment
a firefighter
a match
INSIGHT AS
INNOVATION

16. How do we practice
what Wag did?

22. Parkour isn’t about running & climbing.
Parkour is about navigating uncertainty
in real-time.

24. If we teach people to be more insightful,
they can learn to innovate on-demand.

25. architecture of a practice

26. THE KERNEL

27. VISUALIZATION
practice seeing
COLLABORATION
practice trust
PARTICIPATION
practice openness
INNOVATION
practice freedom

28. first human trials on

30. Strike more matches.
Start more fires.

31. www.innovationparkour.com