Innovate

Are you aware that a dedicated team will be more innovative than a lone genius? That their diverse opinions and experience generate insight the loner can never hope to spark. So do not jump to conclusion but spend a little time up front to ensure you are embarking on the right path. We will dive into failing forward and ask you to reflect did you learn more in challenging or good times in your career? We will ask how often you tackled things with the gusto of a child learning something new or how often you consider challenging your bad habits. People will forget what you say and do but never how you make them feel, so how are you going to make your team feel about innovation? Are you going to give them tools, encourage building a library of their own or just pay lip service to the idea? What about you is innovating? Can your users see this? What about if these users where customers?

Art and science	Brainstorming can stimulate and refresh
Build a framework that can be easily adapted to multiple situations	Build models that end users can interact and experiment with
Build things to change, not to last	Consider all possibilities
Create a professional library	Develop the work breakdown structure
Facilitate opportunities to experiment	Fail forward and fail often
If truly innovative, it is not going to go right the first time	Immersing in new subjects
Innovation is everyones responsibility	IT is the business
Iterate	Produce fault-tolerant systems
Take time to raise your eyes from the immediate tasks	Time spent doing unrelated things, often helps new ideas surface
View everything from a total lifecycle cost perspective

Focus Area
Know Yourself
Build Trust
Establish Accountability
Nourish Relationships
Innovate
Transform
Awareness of Pitfalls


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