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IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, ALL-COMPASSIONATE, ALL-MERCIFUL

• Dr. Rashid Alleem

What is Idea Management?

If you are looking for a magic “quick-fix” formula to be an “ideaist”, you won’t find it here.

Please Note :

Introduction

Part 1

• Dr. Rashid Alleem

The new economy doesn’t require you to just try harder, work smarter, sell more, or work longer hours. It requires you to

change the way you think and the

way you work. Across your

• rganization, all leaders (and

managers too) must demonstrate rock-solid

integrity,

maintain personal credibility, and the ability to confront reality.

Re-Work your work Re- Think your thinking

UNCERTAINTY

Why .. ..

The Global Credit Crunch September 2008

The Three Biggest Challenges Facing Business People Today

Financial Pressures Time Pressures Maintaining Balance Between work and home

Hyper Competition

Today’s central problem facing business is not a shortage of goods but a shortage of customers.

It is tough out there!!

But, I‘m Yes, you are. We all are. Not Creative

Flat out: Anybody can be creative

R E A L L Y ?

1. The Wright brothers were bike mechanics and school dropouts. the world's first successful airplane. 2. The first ballpoint pen was done by a journalist called Biro from Hungary. 3. Samuel Morse, a professional portrait painter. contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system.

Highly Passionate

750 million active users 700 billion minutes per month

Facebook was launched in February 2004 from Harvard University dorm room

When rumors began spreading that Facebook was planning a public offering the company valued between $40 billion and $100 billion.

What to Do? Where to Go?

Glocalization

globalization and localization

Leopoldo , Cuban American, liked Domino’s Pizza and their home delivery idea . He invested $80,000 to start a pizza delivery service in Madrid when he noticed more women began entering the workforce in Spain.

Now!

TelePizza boasts $294 million in sales, employs 13,000 workers, and 760 outlets in 8 countries.

The best ideas are borrowed ideas

A systematic and continuous measurement process of identifying, understanding, and adapting outstanding practices anywhere in the world to help an

• rganization improve its performance.

Benchmarking

Do Benchmark!

Do Learn!

The commander of the USS Benfold, a Navy destroyer in the Pacific fleet took his leadership concept down to the front lines.  What do you like about the Benfold?  What don’t you like about it?  What would you change? Results? More than $1 million in savings from the crew’s suggestions Some of the best morale in the Navy, and An award as the best ship in the fleet

Emotions Attitudes Abilities

Ideas

Talents Philosophy

Why Should Anyone Be Led by YOU?

Part 2

What Is Idea Management?

What is Idea Management?

Idea management is a structured process for soliciting ideas from employees, capturing those ideas and evaluating them in order to determine which ideas have the greatest potential to add value to the organization.

I have an Idea!

Anybody got any ideas?

What is an Idea ?

Nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.

A new idea is the result of fresh thinking, and it solves a problem. A new idea is a novel notion that fuels tomorrow’s success. A new idea anything that propels our business and professional lives.

So, What’s an Idea?

Where Do New Ideas Come From?

1. Lateral thinking. 2. Optimal visioning. 3. Mind-brain interfaces. 4. The neurophysiology of thought. 5. Mental permeability. 6. Conceptual fusioning.

Whew!!!

Consultants

Consultants “Armed with nothing more than pens, podiums, and tremendous shamelessness.” Resultants

In Search of Suckers

I’m Good Enough to be creative

Nathan Mhyrvold, former chief technology

• fficer at Microsoft, says that a great

employee is worth 1000 times more than an average one.

Because of the quality of ideas!

NICE TO

KNOW

Every year, the US Patent and Trademark Office receives upward of 250,000 patent applications- a steady 15 percent annual increase in the number of patents on record.

The Age of Innovation!

NICE TO

KNOW

IBM has been the annual leader in winning new US patents. The company now receives about 3000 new patents a year, and recently ,that number has increased by 50 percent per annum.

IBM

NICE TO

KNOW

Why is all this important?

Ideas are the wheels of progress, they drive the economy, they build businesses, they create jobs.

Boeing

Boeing gathers top managers, ask them to put all their bad company experiences on paper, and then burn the paper in a ritual act of corporate death and rebirth.

Thank you



Dr.Rashid Alleem

YOU NEED FOCUSING STRATEGIES!

You must invest most of your time every week doing what YOU do best, and let OTHERS do what they do best. Focus on those activities you do brilliantly, and from which you produce extraordinary results.

FOCUSING STRATGY No. 1

The Power of Focus

Laser Thinking

The center of a cyclone is very quiet. It is from this center that the cyclone attains its power.

True North

People with goals succeed because they know where they are going.

True North Direction

How to create an idea-friendly environment and people become idea-generators Fresh solutions

Heart + Mind working together

True Vision

True Vision Makes Great Company

FOCUSING STRATGY No. 2

Competent and Committed

Outperformers Accomplish 80%

• f the results 20%
• f the people

Winning team(s)

Committed not Competent They can be trained to move them up. Nice people

Competent not Committed Source of internal and external problems. Don’t “buy in”

Neither Competent nor Committed You must get rid of them. The worst employees

Four Types of Employees

Two dimensions upon which you can measure and analyze each employee: competence and commitment.

Transformational Leadership

A process of conversion of people’s hearts and minds.

How ?

People who may appear to be very different from what they can be. With a little internal re-organization in their values, beliefs and attitudes, people can be truly transformed. To Transform People

Leadership Values Beliefs Attitudes

When the molecules of carbon are re-arranged, we get diamond.

The Champions

Creative And Dynamic Team

Alleem Book Club

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 To read 30 to 60 minutes daily in your field will translate into one book per week, 50 books per annum, and 500 books in 10 years.

FOCUSING STRATGY No. 3

Learning is acquiring new, or modifying existing, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information. FOCUSING STRATGY No. 4

The Fortune Global 500

FOCUSING STRATGY No. 5

1. Concentrate on a single problem, or a single goal without growing tired or bored. 2. Don’t rush to judgment. Instead spend more time considering all the various possible ways solving the problem. 3. Don’t reject ideas – Ask for more to increases the quality and quantity of ideas. 4. If it isn’t working, change it. 5. Go Team! 6. Recognizing Achievement .

You are an Ideaist ! How ?

FOCUSING STRATGY No. 6

Define the Problem Identify Root Causes Develop Solution Implement Action Plan Evaluate

The Group Problem Solving Model

Criteral Thinking!

Think!

Critical Thinking (does not mean disapproval or negative). “Judgment thinking” Lateral Thinking (Solving problems through an indirect and

“outside the box” creative approach).

Criteral Thinking

Critical Thinking

“Judgment thinking” Left brain Analytic Objective Vertical Judgment Probability Focused Yes but

Creative Thinking

“outside the box” Right brain Generative Subjective Lateral Suspended judgment Possibility Diffuse Yes and

You have One Brain …… Two Thinkers

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In a Nutshell

Your organization needs to innovate. Your employees have creative ideas that could be implemented to become powerful

• innovations. Idea

management can make it happen.

Am almost done! Don’t Go Away!

Ideas Campaigns

Ideas Campaigns

An ideas campaign is a focused event designed to solicit ideas that solve specific business needs.

An Ideas campaign is a five step process 1. Innovation Challenge 2. Motivation 3. Collaborative Idea Development 4. Evaluation 5. Implementation

Ideas Campaigns

Innovation Challenge Implementation Evaluation Collaborative Idea Development Motivation

An Innovation challenge based on a business problem or issue. The winning ideas are implemented. The most promising ideas are selected and sent to teams of experts for evaluation. Participants develop ideas in a collaborative environment over a set of time. Employees are motivated to participate and solve the challenge.

• 1. Innovation Challenge
• It should be a short question focused on a single issue.

In which ways might we improve the functionality and reduce the production cost of product X?

• It should not include solutions!

How might we reduce logistics cost by

• utsourcing small deliveries.

• 2. Motivation

Promotion Rewards & Recognitions Ca

Campaign mpaign

• 2. Motivation

Promotion

Leadership

It must be coming directly from top management.

E-mail notification

• 1. Information about the ideas campaign, especially the challenge.
• 2. Explain why the challenge is a business issue and the importance
• f the selected ideas.
• 3. List rewards associated with the campaign.

In addition Posters, T-shirts and announcements in divisional meetings.

• 2. Motivation

Rewards & Recognitions Rewards

• motivates people to stretch their thinking and be more creative.
• Larger rewards for the most creative ideas

Recognitions

• being included on a top-thinker list or getting a thank you call from the

CEO.

• Small gifts for every idea.

• 3. Collaborative Idea Development
• Participants submit ideas and collaborate on each
• thers’ ideas in an open, transparent environment.
• A positive environment is essential to the incubation of

creative ideas.

• Criticism must be prohibited.
• Negative feedback is discouraging not only to the

recipient of the feedback but also to other participants.

• 4. Evaluation

1. An evaluation matrix is an ideal initial evaluation tool. It includes a set of criteria (five is best) against which each promising idea can be measured. 2. When a set of ideas is evaluated by a team of experts, you get a detailed scorecard of the best ideas. 3. More detailed SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunity, threat) analyses – this will provide a more detailed of each idea’s market potential. 4. Ideas which pass these initial evaluation ‘gates’ can then move

• n to more formal idea implementation processes such as

business case development, project initiation.

• 5. Implementation

 Creativity does not become innovation until the ideas have been implemented.  Unfortunately, many organizations go to great trouble and expense to generate and evaluate ideas, but then fail to implement them! Thus it is important that your idea management initiative includes methods for testing and implementing ideas.

One Last Note!

The History of the Suggestion Box

1770 by the British Navy for listening to every individual without fear of

• reprisal. (an idea that contradicted a captain or admiral’s opinion was

likely to be punished by hanging). 1880 at William Denny & Brothers shipyard in Scotland to collect ideas from all employees and to pay a ‘fair’ reward for each implementable idea. 1892 NCR became the first US company to implement a company-wide suggestion program developed by John Patterson their infamous CEO. Employees complained that there was no point giving ideas to their supervisors as the best ideas to their supervisors as the best ideas were stolen, and the worst ideas used as a pretext for their dismissal.

Where to Start?

Einstein wrote down his thoughts. Edison sketched his ideas in detail. Da Vinci filled notebooks with his musings.

Don’t trust your memory

Three Predictions

1. There will be more change in your business in the year ahead than ever before. 2. There will be more competition in your business than ever before. 3. There will be more opportunities in your business than ever before.

A fourth prediction was added later : Harvard University (1952)

Those individuals and organizations that do no quickly adapt to the inevitable and unavoidable changes of today will be in different fields or out of business within one or two years.

Hello Harvard . . . The Race is On

An Opportunistic Mind-set

Growth rates of the Internet that caused Jeff Bezos to

quit his job and start Amazon.com in a garage . Where others see disruption, Ideaist see opportunity

Like Michael Dell

Every company in the industry believed that customers wouldn’t trust a mail-order company to provide such a high-end item. Michael Dell disagreed. Result? $800 million company in 5 years.

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Thank You! Rashid Alleem

rashid@alleem.com