How to support innovation in organisations @ Startup Safary
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The document discusses supporting innovation within organizations, particularly through creative attitudes, self-leadership, and flat organizational structures. It highlights methods, tools, and case studies from companies like Digital Natives and Green Fox, emphasizing learning, responsibility, freedom, and feedback as key factors in fostering creativity. Various decision-making processes and tools, such as Holacracy and Loomio, are presented to encourage agility and personal ownership in workplaces.
How to support innovation in organisations @ Startup Safary
- 1. How to support innovation in organisations Startup Safary Budapest 2017. Bárdos Kristóf
- 2. MY PROFILE My profile - tech & social entrepreneur - consultant, ceo, sales - bizdev Companies: Digital Natives - digital product development Nostromo - lean product management tool Green Fox - education SocialFokus - community of social entrepreneurs
- 3. WHAT IS CREATIVITY? Creativity is an attitude: I want to make it better than I did it yesterday Also, It is a hidden decision in the background to use the extra capacity
- 4. WHAT CREATIVITY DO WE NEED? big ones: 1-4 times in a year new business models, client acquisition, technology etc. … and small ones: 1-4 times in a day iterate on the CRM structure, change the office food ordering
- 5. What makes people creative? We bet on these: ● learning. to widening perspectives ● responsibility. to understand it’s my problem (the hardest part) ● commitment. to people, common or personal goals ● freedom. to make mistakes and be agile ● appreciation. to say thank you ● feedback. to self-reflection ● leadership. to be a role model
- 6. Some methods & tools we practice Digital Natives, Green Fox, SocialFokus CASE STUDIES
- 7. ORGANISATION: FLAT SELF-ORGANISING COMMUNITIES process: Holacarcy - hierarchy between roles, well designed, good for new companies. High efficiency “DiNacracy” - transformation process for up and running companies - Medium efficiency in execution during the transformation Open network - community of individuals and companies with the same purpose. Lower efficiency in execution, but very purpose oriented tool: glass frog
- 8. ● what is my responsibility: Divided by “circles” and “roles” ○ pool system to rotate tasks ● … everything is my responsibility: ownership ○ Co-ownership based on time, peer-review, seniority ● transparency: EVERYTHING… salaries: formula based (towards badges, self-set) ○ based on work experience, seniority RESPONSIBILITY
- 9. ● Alignment between company strategy and personal goal setting ● Dedicated time and budget EXAMPLE: Elixir last year was a “only” a self development pattern, today it is a main strategic goal in Digital Natives ● process: SMART individual goals / circle level company goals ● tool: small-improvements, spreadsheet SELF-DEVELOPMENT
- 10. ownership: bigger investment in cash or resource, selling the company ● process: voting ● tool: loomio or doodle circle, individual: all the other thing… ● process: advice process, based on collective wisdom ● tool: loomio, slack DECISION MAKING
- 11. Let me explain it... Can I buy a new laptop? 1. ask your peers 2. consider honest feedback 3. your call to make the decision, no acceptance Why? Because we trust you.
- 12. Agile is naturally pragmatic, not only for software development. plan, do, track, iterate. we do sprints in marketing, organisation development etc. ● process: sprint, retrospective, SMART goals ● tool: Nostromo for task management and reporting, spreadsheet for goals FREEDOM: AGILE IS DELIBERATING
- 13. 360 peer review in writing NO manager review, but group retrospective ● process: continuous retros, instant feedbacks, 360 twice a year ● tools: small-improvement for 360, plenuum for instant FEEDBACK Making mistakes is good. But don’t repeat the mistakes.
- 14. Leader is not a boss ● hardest challenge to awake self-leadership ● encourage people to take What is CEO in a self-organising structure? ● He is to protect the company culture and ground rules ● Role model ● Create safe place for people LEADERSHIP
- 15. What makes people creative? We bet on these: ● learning. to widening perspectives ● responsibility. to understand it’s my problem (the hardest part) ● commitment. to people, common or personal goals ● freedom. to make mistakes and be agile ● appreciation. to say thank you ● feedback. to self-reflection ● leadership. to be a role model
- 16. E-MAIL info@digitalnatives.hu job@digitalnatives.hu PHONE +36 30 208 5625 ADDRESS Andrássy út 66. Budapest, H-1062 Digital Natives Ltd.