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Never has there been a better time to unleash innovation in your organisation. There is a perfect storm that offers: an unprecedented amount of talented and entrepreneurial young people; accessible technology- many of it for free; and a colliding of ground-breaking knowledge which gives us a clear route forward; and customers who are accessible, around the world, because they are only a few clicks away from ordering.

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There are two types of innovation:

1. Gemba Kaizen innovation (innovation at the workface is a daily activity) which focuses on improving internal processes as a daily activity.
2. Blue ocean innovation where an organisation moves away from the cut throat, dog-eat-dog, bloody red oceans of competition to the clear, calm and rewarding waters.

The great minds covered in this implementation guide

This implementation guide will penetrate into the great work of Jeffery Liker, The Toyota Way, Masaaki Imai author of Kaizen and his follow-up book Gemba Kaizen, and show you how you can move towards Toyota’s amazing achievement of 10 innovations per employee per year worldwide.

The implementation guide will also go into the brilliant work of W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne authors of Blue Ocean Strategy, and their follow-up book, Blue Ocean Shift. 

The great paradigm shifters, Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, Jack Welch, Gary Hamel have also talked, for some time, about the significance of innovation and how to increase your odds of success. The key lessons are extracted and listed for easy absorption.

A major change of culture requires an understanding of the psychology of selling and leading change. John Kotter’s eight step “selling and leading change” process have been further enhanced with Zaffron and Logan’s Three Laws of Performance that offers a more in-depth look at the psychology of change.

The five step process of the ‘Blue Ocean’ shift process

The implementation guide will give you an easy to follow summary and then go onto explain the five step process of the Blue Ocean shift process, as outlined in Kim and Mauborgne’s book.

1. Get started:  This step involves selecting a blue ocean shift (BOS) facilitator, who will be an outside consultant, selecting the core in house BOS team, and training them. Selecting some mentors for the in house team.  Mapping out your current offerings in the pioneer-migrator-settler process.
2. Understand where you are now: This involves the BOS facilitator running a two-day workshop with the extended BOS team. The Strategy canvas is drawn. Expect this to take 2-4 weeks to schedule.
3. Imagine where you could be: This involves the extended BOS team doing field work, and meeting up in a one day workshop where they share their findings on the buyer utility matrix and ascertain the magnitude of the three types non-customers’ demand ( “soon to be non-customers”, “refusing non-customers” and “unexplored non-customers”.
4. Find how you get there: This involves the extended BOS team doing fieldwork and meeting up in a one-day workshop where they share their findings on the six possible paths, complete the eliminate, reduce, raise and create key features exercise and outline a number of possible new offering solutions.
5. Make your move: This involves the extended BOS team presenting the “new offerings” in a contestable environment (a blue ocean fair), where the chosen audience get to hear the various options and in a workshop environment explore their options .get to add their contribution and then vote for the best offerings from their perspective all on the same day. The executive team then makes their decision. Piloting of the new product or service commences with great speed with carefully chosen responsive customers / regions.

I have spent around US$20,000 researching, writing and testing this implementation guide. I guarantee, if you purchase, read, and act you will save many times the cost of this guide.

This guide gives you the answers to the following questions:

• How do you bring innovation to the workplace?
• How can we improve innovation?
• How do you encourage innovation in an organisation?
• How do you get innovative and develop good ideas?
• How do you sell and lead the change?