Have you deployed an innovation team alongside your recovery plan?
Former IBM-er Dave Snowden asked this question. He says:
“In a crisis, you should always deploy an innovation team alongside the business recovery teams…to capture the novel practice” Dave Snowden
The idea of capturing innovation during some of the toughest days of your working life might seem obscene. Some might think it inconsiderate to talk of innovation when colleagues are struggling to juggle work and life.
But it's vital. If you're a middle or senior leader, or Board member, you only have one job: to ensure the long term sustainability of your organisation. No-one else has that on their job description. No-one else thinks they can.
It's not easy, and even carving out the time as a team to talk through how you'll sustain some innovation can feel insurmountable.
That's why we created our six-week programme, Transition Design: Silver Lining Strategy for Schools. We launch next Wednesday - in nine days - after months of research, design and interviews with leadership and teachers around the world.
I'm going to lead it from Edinburgh, alongside my colleague Jeremy Weinstein, in Melbourne. It's live and alive. We want you to join us and colleagues from around the world wrestling with the same challenges and spotting incredible opportunities. We want to create connection between you, and we'll share key frameworks that will organise your thinking, and help you identify what you are going to
- wind down - it needed done for this crisis, but it's time is over.
- ditch - you stopped doing it and the world did not fall apart, and you're not convinced it added any value beforehand.
- restart and/or change - projects or programmes that you had to stop in March, but you need to bring them back somehow; and
- amplify - new ideas that you needed to implement that might provide a more sustainable future.
 Every week, we'll take you into some deep thinking, and finish with actions you can undertake that very week, with your team, to start making the change you want to see. We'll spend an hour or so together, and support you through the week if you need it. Everything we do is hosted on a beautiful platform to which you'll have access, forever.
Six weeks that will help you create an optimistic, sustainable strategy that should go some way to reducing the uncertainty and exhaustion the system is feeling. That's why we're doing it.
PS: If you want a discount for a small team to join in, or you need an invoice instead of using a credit card, just drop me a line personally: ewan@notosh.com
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