Innovation Presentation
Rural Solutions SA
What is Innovation to you?
Today's thinking
South Australian's Strategic Plan
Everyone Everywhere
Innovation
Drivers for Innovation
One in a 100 ideas make it
The dilemma we faced?
Google searched
Staff framework for innovation
Organisation Framework for Innovation
Integration & Systematic
Skills Training Your Brain
Managers
Environment
Systems and Processes
Summary
How can Rural Solutions SA help?
Formal Accreditation
Rural Solutions SA
We are a division of Primary Industries and Resources SA
We are a consultancy business servicing our customers who are
- PIRSA and Department of Water Land and Biodiversity.
- Other Government agencies and
- External customers
We have over 250 staff and are dotted across the state.
Innovation works™is one of many services we offer.
What is Innovation to you?
Something new
Growth
Incremental change
Leading
Efficiencies
Ideas
Creativity
Radical change
Ideas
Entrepreneurial
Services
Today's thinking
Australian innovation is primarily centred on R&D and University education.
Targeting design and development of cutting-edge products in engineering science and technology.
South Australian's Strategic Plan
Identifies the need to foster creativity and innovative
Objective 4: Fostering Creativity -Priority Actions
Our priority is to reinforce South Australia as a place that thrives on creativity and innovation. This capacity to do things differentlywill be one of the keys to achieving all of our objectives. The focus will be on fostering a culture of creativity, on developing creative, innovative and enterprising people, on investing in science and research, and in innovation infrastructure, and on converting ideas into practice.
Everyone Everywhere
Innovation is not only about technological advancements, it is also about making changes and improvementsto the way things are done.
Innovation is something that actually affects every part of the working life.
It affects all organisations at every level.
It can be utilised by all staff.
Innovation
'The process of coming up with new ideas or new uses for old ideas. To be innovative the ideas must add value.’
Drivers for Innovation
- To maintain current business turnover?
- To grow the business through new products and services?
- To better service customer expectations?
- To adapt to and use the new technologies available?
- To meet new or changed regulatory requirements?
- To compete with organisations as a result of global markets?
- To work more efficiently?
- To work in a more environmentally friendly way?
- To adapt to changing social and community expectations?
One in a 100 ideas make it
“our ability to create new income streams is in direct proportion to the number of innovative ideas we generate and the number of experiments we carry out”
SchefenackerVision Systems Pty Ltd
The dilemma we faced?
Google searched
- Framework for innovation 27,100
- Innovation Framework 293,000
- Innovate 35,600,000
- R & D 191,000,000
- Creativity 201,000,000
- Innovation 773,000,000
- Ideas 1,390,000,000
Staff framework for innovation
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Interpret
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Generate
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Collaboration
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Represent
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Evaluate
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| Study tours | Brainstorming | Hot teams | Prototype | Evaluation |
| Case study | Idea bank | Networking | I.P. | Reviewing ideas |
| Trends | New Technology | Grants | Survey | |
| Challenging | Six thinking hats |
"New actions are predicated on new knowledge platforms. Unless we break free from the limitations of our current paradigms we will never discover the next breakthrough business concept”
SchefenackerVision Systems Pty Ltd
Organisation Framework for Innovation
Integration & Systematic
Skills Training Your Brain
∞ Interpret the context, the background, the future.
X Generate and select one or more ideas.
+ Collaborate with others to develop the idea.
? Reflect on the idea.
>< Represent the idea to promote it.
= Evaluate the idea.
Managers
- Leadership
- Encouragement and reward
- Participation/team development
- Balance freedom with order
- Modelling
- Challenging work
- Workgroup support
Environment
- Culture (Behaviours, Symbols and Systems)
- Practices and procedures-Works activates -Standard Operating Procedures
- Conditions, contracts
- Objectives
- Working Arrangements
- Physical working environment
Systems and Processes
- Strategic planning
- Knowledge management systems
- Training and education systems
- Performance management systems
- Systems for capturing ideas
- Systems for allocation resources to ideas
- Systems for reward and recognition of ideas
- Management and work systems
Summary
- Innovation affects all organisations, at every level. Everyone! Everywhere!
- The process of coming up with new ideas or new uses for old ideas. To be innovative the ideas must add value.
- Drivers for innovation
- Breaking the Paradigms
- Framework for innovation: Interpret, Generate, Collaborate, Reflect, Represent, Evaluate (innovation worksTM)
- Consider the whole system, think integration and systematic
How can Rural Solutions SA help?
- Organisational overview audit
- Train staff in the framework for innovation -Workshop style (Module, one day or two day)
- Train managers and leaders to foster innovation-Workshop style (one day)
- Support the organisation to develop and integrate innovation
Formal Accreditation
- The Innovation Workshops will offer a formal accreditation process to course participants
- Formal Accreditation means a formal qualification from a VET (Vocational Education & Training) National Training Package
- On successful completion of the course you will receive a Statement of Attainment for the Competency Unit: TAACMQ505A Lead a team to foster innovation. This competency unit is from the Training & Assessment Training Package
Last Updated: October 31, 2007