leadership and system change using lab based techniques
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Paul Taylor (aka @paulbromford)Innovation Coach @BromfordLab/@bromford
Using Lab based approaches to
achieve Leadership and System change
What is a Lab? The Skunk Works story
How could the health and social sectors apply this?
Provide a place to experiment with change
Encourage risk taking (even risk seeking) behaviours
Acceptance and learning from failure
Commitment to vision beyond rhetoric
Connecting people from diverse networks
Radical transparency and openness
Problem framing before problem solving
the world of bromford
we are
here We have deliberately positioned ourself at
the outside edge
There’s some science to it as well - it’s a lot easier to change
20% of your organisation by 80% than bring about 20% of change on the 80%
From big step change to marginal gains
Less pilots more tests
Problem definition
12 weeks max
Coaching
Think 10x bigger
prototype Test
Evaluate
Fail?
Prepare exit
resource for scale
A typical Lab concept could take less than 12 weeks to be mainstreamed
We have realism about the complications of large scale system change. Our very first concept is only now entering the final stages of mainstream implementation -
over two years later
The big public sector transformation challenge:
The need for innovation and change is at an all time high
The capacity for innovation and change is at an all time low
How do you get the busy leader on board?Match ideas to strategy
Coaching - little but often
Take the hard work out of it
Support and build on ideas
De-risk it: take the “Governance Monkey” off their backs
Assemble resources - frugally and with minimum viability
Test concept and gain evidence
Share their success: blog it tweet it
Build business case
Do the boring bits for them
How do you create capacity
for radical creativity?
WE CALL THIS SQUAD WORKING
Think big but start small
Avoid solutions in search of a problem
Every problem is an opportunity
Don’t keep talking about it - try it!
A quick fail beats a slow steady death
Innovation is about impact not ideas
Go to the centre of the network
Fast failure is good risk management
Be ruthless pulling the plug
Lab Lessons
Paul Taylor (aka @paulbromford)Innovation Coach @BromfordLab/@bromford
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