Outside Innovation: Recent Episodes
Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor presents a weekly look at what people are thinking about and doing in the world of innovation , productivity, creativity and R+D
The global transformation market will be worth $2,279.4bn by 2025 with the consulting component alone at $44bn.
Who is really winning from transformation? It’s not necessarily going to be you or your customers.
The report mentioned in the podcast is available here.. https://hbr.org/2021/09/the-secret-behind-successful-corporate-transformations?ab=hero-main-text
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://paulitaylor.com/2021/09/17/whatever-you-do-today-dont-start-a-transformation-programme/
Work about work: activities that take time away from meaningful work, including communicating about work, searching for information, switching between apps, managing shifting priorities, and chasing the status of work.
How can we reduce it and redesign work for the 21st Century?
This weeks podcast draws on information from a Zapier report
https://zapier.com/blog/report-how-office-workers-spend-time/
and a piece from Stowe Boyd
https://www.workfutures.io/p/the-ideal-worker-is-all-work-all?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjQzMjI3NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MzY2MDcwOTcsIl8iOiJidnp0WiIsImlhdCI6MTYyODYxOTU0NCwiZXhwIjoxNjI4NjIzMTQ0LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTYiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.F0WZ_br_VZTbyivITvi2YeDqqQR62EJm27-Jo_CTIDE
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://paulitaylor.com/2021/09/11/the-great-resignation-and-the-relentless-rise-of-work-about-work/
In markets without much competition, organisations can deliver bad service not because of poor design and management, but simply because they can.
The Twitter thread we discuss by Ben P. Taylor (@antlerboy) in the pod is available here. https://twitter.com/antlerboy/status/1433070351953575940?s=20
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://paulitaylor.com/2021/09/03/poor-service-isnt-always-an-accident-its-by-design/
Who causes the problems where you work? The people, or the system itself? What if we overstate the effect of the people in our organisations whilst ignoring the more complex and systemic issues that influence how they perform or behave?
Thanks to the 'flowchainsensai' Bob Marshall for sending me his post on this that I quote from in the podcast. https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/the-people-vs-system-conundrum/. This is a recommended blog
As is my own! Which you can get at http://paulitaylor.com/2021/08/27/the-people-vs-the-system-and-why-the-people-rarely-win/ published every Friday with a pod version the following Wednesday
Perhaps it’s time for the NHS to focus employees on becoming better localised problem solvers who can work on existing real-world issues that staff and patients face every day?
Thanks to Wendy Lansdown for providing this link to the health system of Costa Rica that I discuss at the end of the episode.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://paulitaylor.com/2021/08/20/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-the-nhs/
In lockdown you can’t really experiment as people have constraints. There are too many variables at play. But now we have the opportunity to test out the best of multiple worlds; home, roam, office, wherever.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://paulitaylor.com/2021/08/13/the-hawthorne-effect-why-employers-need-to-be-cautious-in-post-pandemic-planning/
There’s a fallout to the line of thinking that we all must be perfect.
In reality, both ‘mostly good’ and ‘mostly bad’ organisations make mistakes, but the mostly good ones are better at learning from them.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://paulitaylor.com/2021/07/30/the-difference-between-good-and-bad-organisations/
We’re obsessed with big change, but what if we’re underestimating the power of the small changes that lie more easily within our reach?
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://paulitaylor.com/2021/07/16/moving-from-big-change-that-rarely-happens-to-small-change-that-always-does/
Einstein believed the quality of the solution you generate is in direct proportion to your ability to identify the problem you hope to solve.
If you jump straight to answers you can miss the root cause entirely and embark on silver bullet solutions to the wrong problem. Your first idea really could be the worst idea.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://paulitaylor.com/2021/07/09/turn-your-company-into-a-problem-solving-machine/
Is face to face collaboration really better than remote online workshops? We discuss
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://paulitaylor.com/2021/07/02/remote-work-is-always-efficient-but-efficient-isnt-always-effective/
Fear has been used as a motivator during the Covid pandemic, to keep us safe and to keep us scared. Did we go too far and was this nudge more of a shove?
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://paulitaylor.com/2021/06/25/how-do-we-emerge-from-a-state-of-fear/