1/. The Myths of Innovation
2/. People and Teams for Innovation Success
3/. Customer Focused Innovation
4/. Speed: New thoughts on an old idea
5/. Co-Creation to build more value
6/. Eco-system development
7/. Selecting Ideas / Theories to tie things together
Innovation Management/ lecture 2: People and Teams for Innovation Success
1.
2. Bryan Cassady Guest Professor, Bryan@fast-bridge.com
start End
Class Update 5 16:00 16:05
Working in groups/ first thoughts 25 16:05 16:30
People and groups to be innovative 50 16:30 17:20
Break 15 17:20 17:35
Application of wise: Crowds Mymicro Invest 40 17:35 18:15
Biognoysis 15 18:15 18:30
Next week's assignment 10 18:30 18:40
160
6. Bryan Cassady Guest Professor, Bryan@fast-bridge.com
A + A + A = “A performance”
(unlikely, but maybe possible)
A + A + A = “B performance”
(too often the case)
A + B + C = “A performance”
(where the potential lies)
28. Bryan Cassady Guest Professor, Bryan@fast-bridge.com
“Bringing new members into the organization, even if they’re
less experienced and less capable, actually makes the group
smarter simply because what little the new members do know
is not redundant with what everyone else knows.”
(p.31)
31. Bryan Cassady Guest Professor, Bryan@fast-bridge.com
Alpha Group
138
132 135
139
135
137
Diverse Group
121 84 111
75 135 31
32. Bryan Cassady Guest Professor, Bryan@fast-bridge.com
“Most of the time” the diverse group outperforms the
group of the best by a substantial margin.
See Lu Hong and Scott Page Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences (2002)
33. Bryan Cassady Guest Professor, Bryan@fast-bridge.com
Alpha Group
ABD
ADE BCD
ABC
BCD
ACD
Diverse Group
AHK FD AEG
EZ BCD IL
38. Bryan Cassady Guest Professor, Bryan@fast-bridge.com
collective intelligence increases as the “herd mentality”
decreases and the people in the group express what they
genuinely think rather than going along with whatever
everyone else is saying.
“The more influence a group’s members exert on each other,
and the more personal contact they have with each other, the
less likely it is that the group’s decisions will be wise ones.”
(p.42)
39. Bryan Cassady Guest Professor, Bryan@fast-bridge.com
Decentralization means everyone in the crowd will try their own
approach to the problem rather than having their efforts
directed from the top down.
47. Bryan Cassady Guest Professor, Bryan@fast-bridge.com
“If a group satisfies those conditions [diversity, independence,
decentralization, aggregation] , its judgement is likely to be
accurate. Why? At heart, the answer rests on a mathematical
truism. If you ask a large enough group of diverse, independent
people to make a prediction or estimate a probability, and then
average those estimates, the errors each of them makes in
coming up with an answer will cancel themselves out. Each
person’s guess, you might say, has two components:
information and error. Subtract the error, and you’re left with
the information.”
– James Surowiecki
48. Bryan Cassady Guest Professor, Bryan@fast-bridge.com
• Individual ability can grow, but it is hard
• Collective diversity is easy to build
• Diversity is our best hope to solve
problems and to create innovations.
58. Bryan Cassady Guest Professor, Bryan@fast-bridge.com
Date Lecture Student Presentation Assignment
11-02-14 The 7 myths of innovation Discussion definition Innovation
First thoughts on an Audit/ how
will you do it
18-02-14
People: the real source of
innovation
Group 1: First thoughts on an
Audit/ how will you do it
Biognosys move into B2C: your
team recommendation
25-02-14 Customer focused innovation
Group 2: Biognosys move into B2C:
your team recommendation
Biognosys: How to test potential
using research markets
27-02-14
Speed / the myth of first
movers
Group 3: Biognosys: How to test
potential using research markets
Nomadesk : what now
11-03-14 IP Class None No assignment
18-03-14
Working together to innovate
(co-creation)
Group 4: Nomadesk : what now
A co-creation plan for the Founders
Institute
25-03-14 Innovation ecosystems
Group 5: A co-creation plan for the
Founders Institute
Selling Belgium as an innovation
center
01-04-14
Living the life of an
innovator/Innovation process
Group 6: Selling Belgium as an
innovation center
No assignment