Knowit Technology Management

Innovation and Knowledge Based Development

Pär Hammarström Senior Mgmt Consultant

Knowit Technology Management

Technology Management

What do you believe that only you believe?

Technology Management

Product Development is Learning

Real World

Information Decision

Decision making rules

Mental Model

Feedback

Reflection

Contextual environment

Enacted environnment

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A Different Perspective

Co-ordinating logic

Transparency

Knowledge transfer

Motivation

Perspective

Reflecte

d e

xp

eriences

Pre

vio

us e

nactm

ent

Gemba - Go see

Present enactment

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Perspectives

Conservative Constructive

Superstitious Novel

• Autonomy – The desire to be self-

directed

• Mastery – The urge to get better –

in search of flow

• Purpose – The aspiration to

contribute to something bigger than ourselves

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Intrinsic Motivation

Self Actualization

Belongingness

Survival

Intr

insic

Mo

tivati

on

Directing factors

Targeted Scanning

Scanning in

principle

Anarchistic

Scanning

Private

Scanning

None Work situation General situation

Organizational Behavior

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4 Mental Models of Innovation

Business as usual Let’s fire all the managers

80/20 Continuous innovation as the bottom line

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Linear Model of Innovation

Basic Research -> Applied Research -> Development -> Diffusion

Basic Research -> Applied Research -> Development -> Production -> Marketing&Sales

Market needs-> Development -> Production -> Marketing&Sales

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“Keeping the Innovators at the Gate”

• Entrepeneurs are everywhere

– Product Roadmap -> Business Model

– Product Owner - > Entrepeneur

• Validated learning

– Backlog -> To learn list

– On site customer -> Get out of the building

– Demo -> Perserve or Pivot

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The Lean Start-up

Build

Measure Learn