Say the word “Innovation” and it invokes different reactions – Some find it exciting whereas other find it management gimmick and buzz word. In this era of digital transformation, innovation has become even more important with companies expecting to bring in innovation culture to their teams. With agile bringing in culture of rapid deliveries, continuous feedback, teams often face the dichotomy of being innovative and delivering what is asked by the product management at the same time. In such situation only focusing on delivering what is needed often wins with innovation taking a back seat. In large enterprises, often innovation is left to a small focused group which further delineates the larger agile delivery teams which may have differentiated solutions that could translate to next big idea for the company. This talk explores some practical tips and techniques on what can be done to address such challenges and help organization to stay ahead. More details: https://confengine.com/agile-india-2019/proposal/8015/propel-by-scaling-innovation Conference link: https://2019.agileindia.org

1. Propel by Scaling Innovation
Archana Joshi
Director – Digital Engineering, Cognizant

2. When you say innovation which
companies can you recall?

3. When you say innovation which
companies can you recall?
Source: https://www.forbes.com/innovative-companies/#471475301d65

4. Innovation
is a
generation, admission and realization of new ideas, products, services and
processes

5. Upside down

6. How could a baby
fall out of a
twenty-story
building onto the
ground and live?

7. Innovate
Source: http://www.bromfordlab.com/

8. 1. We want to innovate….

9. 2. We want to innovate….

10. 3. We want to innovate….

11. 4. We want to innovate….

12. 5. We want to innovate….

13. The Five Barriers
No time to
innovate
Lack of
Environment
Fear of failure
Navigating the
corporate structures
Resistance
to change

14. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
Innovation and Creativity over Customs and Traditions

16. Can you guess?
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17. Creative spaces

18. Retros start with games and creative
activity
Design Thinking

19. Groups & Diversity Helps
Creative collaboration across teams and communities
via platforms to foster innovation

20. Hack-a-thons, Ship-It, Innovation Day

21. Accidental to Intentional Innovation
Source: Gartner (Dec 2018)
For a company, business
goals typically relate to revenue,
profits, process efficiency or
customer loyalty.
For a government
organization, business goals
might be improvements in service
quality, staff effectiveness or
citizen satisfaction.

22. Golden Epics
• Golden epics are for the
innovative & transformative
solutions.
• Source for the Golden epics /
features from Hackathons,
Community of practice, ideas
from team highlighted during
the retrospectives

23. Defined Roles & Governance
ITE
CITE
Innovation Train Engineer Chief Innovation Train Engineer
Chief Innovation Officer

24. Dedicated Budgets

25. The Five Tips to scale
Capacity in backlog
Creative Zones
Creative Collaboration
Dedicated Roles &
Governance
Defined Framework
Appetite for Risk

26. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2A4WLeoxcc

27. Thank you
Archana Joshi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/arcjoshi
Note: The views represented in the presentation are solely of the presenter and do not represent those of the company / clients she is associated with