20 minute presentation by Rick Warren on eight principles of innovation. My notes below. Watch the video: it’s good.
1. Termination Question – what do I first need to stop, before I start something new? Burning the candle at both hands: you’re not as smart as you think you are. Drucker: Systematic abandonment. Austrian: Creative destruction. “When the horse is dead, dismount.”
2. Coordination Question – how do we do it faster/larger/cheaper with a team? If you want a movement, you gotta have a team.
3. Combination Question – what could we mix together to build something new? What could we blend, merge, unite, synthesize. How can we take things that are the exact opposite and put them together?
4. Elimination Question – what part could we take out in order to make it simpler? Perfection is when there is nothing left to take away. Steve Case: we always overestimate the amount of complexity people will put up with. Take stuff out. What barrier can we remove that will make it more accessible. What complexity can we get rid of to make it easier. Take down the borders. Matthew Peterson: how do we eliminate the language barrier in teaching math.
5. Reincarnation Question – what has died but we can bring it back to life in a new form? What worked 20 years ago, died, but you could bring it back in a new format, it might have some new life in it? Take an old idea and reformat it. For 2,000 years the church has done training – catechism. Sequential process by which you do this, this, this. We did a reinvention of it, a reincarnation of it. We put the ‘tech’ in catechism.
6. Rejuvenation Question – how could we change the purpose or motivation for what we’re doing? Not change what we do, but why. Not just what you do – it’s how and why.
7. Illumination Question – how can we look at this in a new light? We get used to stuff and we don’t see it any more. Need new eyes. Go out and ask your customers, your competition, ask anyone outside your organization. How can we do this in a new way?
8. Fascination Question – how could we make it more interesting? more appealing, more attractive, more mezmerizing.
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