http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2007/10/29/unleashing-innovation-at-speed/ For more than a decade Marc has been a passionate advocate of placing the customer at the heart of business, working with clients in finance, retail, government and entertainment sectors, helping them craft compelling cross channel customer experiences. Marc champions lean and agile approaches for making customer driven innovation happen. He brings design thinking and creativity to clients, engaging across the organisation with a focus on delivery as well as ideas. He is currently writing a book on Agile Experience Design to be published this Autumn. Sun, 25 Sep 2011 23:33:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2007/10/29/unleashing-innovation-at-speed/comment-page-1/#comment-54904 dancingmango » Innovation and the idea approval index Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:24:10 +0000 http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2007/10/29/unleashing-innovation-at-speed/#comment-54904 [...] written in the past about organisations setting up test and learn capabilities, and how languages such as Ruby on Rails make this so much easier. Sadly, even with [...] [...] written in the past about organisations setting up test and learn capabilities, and how languages such as Ruby on Rails make this so much easier. Sadly, even with [...]

]]> http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2007/10/29/unleashing-innovation-at-speed/comment-page-1/#comment-50724 Prashant Gandhi Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:01:04 +0000 http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2007/10/29/unleashing-innovation-at-speed/#comment-50724 I want to point out that innovations usually dont happen with a committee. Getting people in a room, using flipcharts and post it notes and a high flying moderator is not a recipe for innovation. You need a visionary - someone who can see beyond the obvious and is using the forum to express their ideas and convincing those around them. We had this experience together at the big bank. Without having someone like the geezer from Goldman Sachs, we would have been painfully stuck in rehashing the obvious and nothing more. As for implementation, I agree there are far more productive tools available today to test out ideas, but they also need an environment to be implemented. Using internal customers to test the idea - now that's a very creative suggestion. I want to point out that innovations usually dont happen with a committee. Getting people in a room, using flipcharts and post it notes and a high flying moderator is not a recipe for innovation. You need a visionary – someone who can see beyond the obvious and is using the forum to express their ideas and convincing those around them. We had this experience together at the big bank. Without having someone like the geezer from Goldman Sachs, we would have been painfully stuck in rehashing the obvious and nothing more. As for implementation, I agree there are far more productive tools available today to test out ideas, but they also need an environment to be implemented. Using internal customers to test the idea – now that’s a very creative suggestion.

]]> http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2007/10/29/unleashing-innovation-at-speed/comment-page-1/#comment-50614 Craig Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:11:53 +0000 http://www.dancingmango.com/blog/2007/10/29/unleashing-innovation-at-speed/#comment-50614 I couldn't agree with you more. I work in the financial/banking industry and it is a snails paradise. Projects take forever and innovation is hard to come by. I am contemplating creating a RoR prototype for a new application needed here just because I think I could get more done in a weekend than by following the culturally ingrained process. I couldn’t agree with you more. I work in the financial/banking industry and it is a snails paradise. Projects take forever and innovation is hard to come by. I am contemplating creating a RoR prototype for a new application needed here just because I think I could get more done in a weekend than by following the culturally ingrained process.

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