Thursday, June 14, 2012

Metacognition: Thinking about thinking
“What” needs to be learned
“How” to apply “what” was learned
“When”to apply “how” and “what”
“Self-monitoring” “when what and how” are applied

“Self-regulation” of the “self-monitoring of when what and how” are applied

Types of organizational learning
Exploration (new or radical learning) of whats, hows, whens, self-monitoring, and self-regulation
Exploitation (incremental learning, builds on old) of whats, hows, whens, self-monitoring, and self-regulation


Levels of organizational learning employing types of organizational learning
Individual Learning - Internal and External Explorative and Exploitive
Group Learning - Internal and External Explorative and Exploitive

Organizational Learning - Internal and External Explorative and Exploitive
Interorganizational Learning - Internal and External Explorative and Exploitive

Senge's principles of organizational learning applied to organizational learning levels
Personal Mastery – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization
Mental Modeling – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization

Team Learning – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization
Shared Vision – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization
Systems Thinking – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization

Types of ideas and innovation developed by the different levels of organizational learning
Incremental Innovation – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization
Semi-Radical Innovation – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization
Radical Innovation – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization

Ersatz Radical Innovation – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization
Disruptive Innovation – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization


Innovation development stages that follow the ideation stage
Structured Idea Management Stage – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization
The Technology Stage – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization

The Performance Stage – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization
The Market Segmentation Stage – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization
The Efficiency Stage – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization
The Complimentaries Stage – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization

Product life cycle, technology adoption cycle, and BCG growth matrix relationships
Introduction– Innovators – Low Market Share and High Market Growth Rate (Question Marks)
Growth– Early Adopters + Early Majority – High Market Share and High Market Growth Rate (Stars)

Maturity– Late Majority – High Market Share and Low Market Growth Rate (Cash Cows)
Decline– Laggards – Low Market Share and Low Market Growth Rate (Dogs)


Tools that foster creativity and innovation through the organizational learning levels
Systems for Ideation and Innovation

Systems for Delivering Value

Systems for Refining the Current Model

Systems for Building Competencies

Systems for Crafting Strategy

Systems for Developing Behaviors

Systems for Recruiting Creative, Innovative, and Diverse People at All Levels

360 degree feedback

Experimentation

Prototyping

Making Deals

Innovation that Fits

Game Theory

Diverse Top Management

Devil’s Advocacy

Listening to Dissenters

Dialectical Inquiry

Brainstorming

Benchmarking

Suggestion Boxes

Surveys

Electronic Collaboration

Intrapreneur Program

Leveraging IT

Stakeholder Analysis

PEST Analysis

SWOT Analysis

Leadership and Management Systems Comparative Analysis

Competitive Analysis

Collateral Organizational Structure

Knowledge Management

Ignorance Management

Project Roadmap

Failures as Opportunities for Improvement

Learning Histories

Legends and Heroes

Characteristics of an innovative organization

Uses the tools listed above to stimulate creativity and innovation

Has and communicates a clear mission and vision statement committed to continuous improvement (Kaizen)

Upper and lower managers are committed to both radical and incremental innovation as per their actions

Has a framework and training program to teach others how to create and innovate

Develops employees to fulfill specific innovation roles in a team setting and rotates them through the roles

Develops innovation collaborations and networks

Performs diagnostic interviews

Maps processes and identifies bottlenecks using PERT and Six Sigma

Performs GAP analysis

Reserves resources for piloting and paper, visual, and virtual prototyping

Encourages knowledge sharing across the organization using shared knowledge and information systems

Provides employees with access to technical expertise to further ideas and innovation

Scans the organization to see if the innovation compliments other organizational innovations

Analyzes risks, returns, readiness, receptivity, and resources required prior to scaling

Develops policies and standards to drive innovation at every level

Branches out incremental and radical innovations

Provides assistance in packaging innovations

Public policy intervention to change laws to support the innovation

Public awareness campaigns for new innovations

Changes or creates new markets

Provides legal assistance in protecting the intellectual property and licensing of that property

Reverse engineers plans

Reverse engineers other innovations and recombines them in novel ways

Develops metrics to be able to know how things are improving – See KPI Library and Balanced Scorecard

Employs test markets to capture corrective feedback prior to scaling

Diffuses and scales blockbuster ideas

Encourages employees to take risks

Encourages employees to make decisions

Promotes paid time for employees to create

Creates a support systems for innovation

Encourages volume, speed, and reiteration

Embraces failure as an opportunity to improve

Recognizes and embraces the need for change

Employs gallery walks or showcases of innovations or ideas and allows visitors to weigh in with their ideas

Employs large scale virtual brainstorming where people can continue to improve an idea

Develops innovation wikis

Sees defiance as positive

Allows time for deep reflection

Translating stories into innovative resources

Solicits ideas from inside and outside the organization through idea and innovation contests

Uses new technologies together in novel ways

Gets everyone at every level involved

Rewards intrapreneur employees who innovate

Self-reflects

Has an open door policy

Celebrates success with employees

Clearly communicates history

Has a customer focus

Focuses on trends versus one-time events

Employs collaborative cross-functional teams

Has an employee appreciation program

Balances shared values, shared mindset, and group think with individual values and mindsets

Balances equilibrium with disequilibrium in organizational culture

Balances stability with change in organizational culture

Balances focus with diversity in organizational culture

Balances discipline with surprise in organizational culture

Balances pride and fear in organizational culture

Balances risk taking with risk avoidance in organizational culture

Balances guidance with freedom in organizational culture

Balances control with trust in organizational culture

Innovation model components that organizational learning levels need to innovate
Business Model

Target Customer – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization

Value Proposition – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization

Supply Chain – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization


Technology Model
Product and Service Offerings – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization
Process Technologies – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization
Enabling Technologies – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization
Integrating the Business and Technology Models – Individual, Group, Organization, and Interorganization
Star model and McKinsey organizational design components for innovative organizations
Strategy – Balancing organizational development, stakeholder value, profit, and operations management


Staff/People/Style/Rewards/Skills/Shared Values – Janson Development Model

Janson's Development Model: Change, Value, Behavior, and Performance

FRAME the organizational mission, vision, shared values, strategy, structures, systems, and processes, as well as specific, broad, quantitative, qualitative, stretch, expected, success-driven, loss-avoidance, measureable, accountable, realistic, and timely goals.
FRAME the types of knowledge, skills, technology, training, styles, personalities, timed delivery of intrinsic and extrinsic pay-for-performance incentives, 360 degree and KPI evaluations, cultures, core competencies, and competitive advantages required to achieve the organizational mission, vision, shared values, strategy, structures, systems, processes, and internal and external markets, as well as specific, broad, quantitative, qualitative, stretch, expected, success-driven, loss-avoidance, measureable, accountable, realistic, and timely goals.

FRAME the types of diverse employees, groups, organizations, and interorganizations needed to acquire, develop, and retain the knowledge, skills, training, styles, personalities, timed delivery of intrinsic and extrinsic pay-for-performance incentives, 360 degree and KPI evaluations, cultures, core competencies, and competitive advantages, required to achieve the organizational mission, vision, shared values, strategy, mechanistic and organic structures, systems, processes, and internal and external markets, as well as specific, broad, quantitative, qualitative, stretch, expected, success-driven, loss-avoidance, measureable, accountable, realistic, and timely goals.
ANALYZE the types of diverse employees, groups, organizations, and interorganizations needed to acquire, develop, and retain the knowledge, skills, technology, training, styles, personalities, timed delivery of intrinsic and extrinsic pay-for-performance incentives, 360 degree and KPI evaluations, cultures, core competencies, and competitive advantages, required to achieve the organizational mission, vision, shared values, strategy, mechanistic and organic structures, systems, processes, and internal and external markets, as well as specific, broad, quantitative, qualitative, stretch, expected, success-driven, loss-avoidance, measureable, accountable, realistic, and timely goals.

DESIGN the types of diverse employees, groups, organizations, and interorganizations needed to acquire, develop, and retain the knowledge, skills, technology, training, styles, personalities, timed delivery of intrinsic and extrinsic pay-for-performance incentives, 360 degree and KPI evaluations, cultures, core competencies, and competitive advantages, required to achieve the organizational mission, vision, shared values, strategy, mechanistic and organic structures, systems, processes, and internal and external markets, as well as specific, broad, quantitative, qualitative, stretch, expected, success-driven, loss-avoidance, measureable, accountable, realistic, and timely goals.
DEVELOP the types of diverse employees, groups, organizations, and interorganizations needed to acquire, develop, and retain the knowledge, skills, technology, training, styles, personalities, timed delivery of intrinsic and extrinsic pay-for-performance incentives,  360 degree and KPI evaluations, cultures, core competencies, and competitive advantages, required to achieve the organizational mission, vision, shared values, strategy, mechanistic and organic structures, systems, processes, and internal and external markets, as well as specific, broad, quantitative, qualitative, stretch, expected, success-driven, loss-avoidance, measureable, accountable, realistic, and timely goals.

IMPLEMENT the types of diverse employees, groups, organizations, and interorganizations needed to acquire, develop, and retain the knowledge, skills, technology, training, styles, personalities, timed delivery of intrinsic and extrinsic pay-for-performance incentives, 360 degree and KPI evaluations, cultures, core competencies, and competitive advantages, required to achieve the organizational mission, vision, shared values, strategy, mechanistic and organic structures, systems, processes, and internal and external markets, as well as specific, broad, quantitative, qualitative, stretch, expected, success-driven, loss-avoidance, measureable, accountable, realistic, and timely goals.
EVALUATE the types of diverse employees, groups, organizations, and interorganizations needed to acquire, develop, and retain the knowledge, skills, technology, training, styles, personalities, timed delivery of intrinsic and extrinsic pay-for-performance incentives, 360 degree and KPI evaluations, cultures, core competencies, and competitive advantages, required to achieve the organizational mission, vision, shared values, strategy, mechanistic and organic structures, systems, processes, and internal and external markets, as well as specific, broad, quantitative, qualitative, stretch, expected, success-driven, loss-avoidance, measureable, accountable, realistic, and timely goals.

INNOVATE the types of diverse employees, groups, organizations, and interorganizations needed to acquire, develop, and retain the knowledge, skills, technology, training, styles, personalities, timed delivery of intrinsic and extrinsic pay-for-performance incentives, 360 degree and KPI evaluations, cultures, core competencies, and competitive advantages, required to achieve the organizational mission, vision, shared values, strategy, mechanistic and organic structures, systems, processes, and internal and external markets, as well as specific, broad, quantitative, qualitative, stretch, expected, success-driven, loss-avoidance, measureable, accountable, realistic, and timely goals.
INTEGRATE the types of diverse employees, groups, organizations, and interorganizations needed to acquire, develop, and retain the knowledge, skills, technology, training, styles, personalities, timed delivery of intrinsic and extrinsic pay-for-performance incentives, 360 degree and KPI evaluations, cultures, core competencies, and competitive advantages, required to achieve the organizational mission, vision, shared values, strategy, mechanistic and organic structures, systems, processes, and internal and external markets, as well as specific, broad, quantitative, qualitative, stretch, expected, success-driven, loss-avoidance, measureable, accountable, realistic, and timely goals.