Continuous Improvement of NASA's Innovation Ecosystem by unknow

Continuous Improvement of NASA's Innovation Ecosystem by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Space and Aeronautics: Space Systems and Hardware, Space and Aeronautics: Space Exploration and Development
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2019-07-22T21:00:00+00:00


IDEATION SESSION

The rest of the group’s time was spent on what Fraser referred to as an “ideation session.” She divided the group into teams, each of which included one of the section’s invited experts. She then provided five problem areas and challenged everyone to come up with at least 10 ideas that had been inspired by what they had heard during the section. The ideas were to be written on sticky notes so that they were easy to organize by sticking them to boards.

Once everyone had finished their sticky notes, Fraser said, they would be organized by putting them on whiteboards corresponding to the five problem areas. On those boards, the ideas would then be categorized according to how difficult they would be to achieve (easy, less easy, hard, impossible) and by how pressing they were (less urgent, more urgent). Fraser called the approach dump and sort: “You dump out all your ideas, you sort them, you figure out which ones matter and that you can take action on more easily. . . . And by the end of the day, we should have a work plan that can be summarized in a one-pager.”

The five problem areas were as follows:

Human systems—the hiring, developing, managing, etc., of workers;

Gen Z magnet—how to attract, inspire, and retain the generation coming out of school and into the workforce now;

Safe to try—creating a workplace in which people are not afraid to fail;

Stop the stupid—getting rid of policies and practices that are obviously not effective or are even actively damaging; and

Ambidextrous leaders—developing a new model of leadership that rests on a culture of “and” rather than “or,” that values discovering over knowing, and that has leaders who ask questions and remove roadblocks. It has been described as the best style of leadership for innovation.



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