Reference no: EM132659990

BSBINN801 Lead innovative thinking and practice

Activity 1- Developmental activities

Definition
This workbook is anxious with how we Lead Innovative Thinking, at an individual and team level. Thinking and Innovation are not the same, though thinking rarely comes about other than as a result of some kind of innovative activity, however small.

Contents
The activity workbook contains Development Activities, which are designed to be highly practical.
The development activities include a range of exercises which approve various techniques to enable you to Reflect on the current situation in your team and compares it to what you want to achieve; so that you can create a plan for taking action.
There are suggestions as to how you can Monitor the progress of your development activities and Evaluate the impact that you are having. It is hoped that doing so will enable you to sustain the behaviors and practices that will help you strengthen your effectiveness as a team.

Please note:
1. The workbook is designed such that it can be valuable during whole training and development activities, and during individual supervision or performance appraisal;
2. Depending on their demand, the reader can start at the beginning and work their way through the activity workbook.

Activity 1
Thinking about yourselves as a team, rather than about individual team members, reflect on the last three to six months, and the number of occasions when you have devoted time, as a team, to reflecting on innovations and ideas for improvements (a) in the way the team functions, and (b) in the quality of the service that you offer - either by an individual team member, or by a few team members, or the team as a whole. Make a note of them.

Activity 2
Talk to a colleague or a friend or associate, who has a strong commitment to promoting innovation and Thinking - Improvement.

Activity 3

When was the last time that you recognized in some other way, the achievements of a company for achieving an innovation or improvement? Please detail.
I recognize the achievements of a company in achieving innovations by giving them positive review in front of colleagues and friends and if I find a company to be very innovative, I write to them to appreciate them.
The last time I wrote to a company's team head was on LinkedIn a week ago about how impressed I was about their efforts for reducing pollutants from their plant emissions.
When was the last time the company celebrated an individual's or the whole team's success in achieving an innovation or improvement? Please detail.
Not for a long time

Activity 4

As an individual, what are your implications on:

Developing a greater level of skill capability within the company?
• What are the underlying principles, e.g., help and guidance, opportunities to practice, thinking?
• What lessons can be learnt?
• What are the values for the company?

Q#1.
Learning with understanding is facilitated when new and existing knowledge is structured around the major concepts and principles of the discipline.
? Learners use what they already know to construct new understandings.
? Learning is facilitated using metacognitive strategies that identify, monitor, and regulate cognitive processes.
Q#2.
? Happiness lies in being useful
? Being pro-active solves half of the battle
? Leadership: You ought to take charge at some point of time
Q#3:
? Integrity
? Boldness
? Honesty
? Accountability
? Commitment to Customers
? Teamwork
Developing a greater sense of team confidence and team efficiency,
? What are the underlying principles, e.g., brainstorming, social support, encouragement, persistence?
The underlying principles for developing a greater sense of team confidence and efficiacy,
° Build team cohesion
° Establish team norms
° Set clear goals
° Effective communication
° Positive attitude
What lessons can be learnt?
° Teams need to examine their work and understand the reasons for successes and failures, so they can continue to improve and develop.
° Teams need recognition for their accomplishments, so they will know their work is appreciated.

? What are the implications for our team?
The team must:
° Have a common purpose and goal.
° Trust each other.
° Clarify their roles from the start.
° Communicate openly and effectively.
° Appreciate a diversity of ideas.
° Balance the team focus.
° Leverage any heritage relationships.

Developing a team identity as one of being an effective innovator and improver of services.
? What are the underlying principles, e.g., self-belief, sense of identity as innovators and improvers?
° Appreciate individual members
° Establish purpose and values
° Build trust
° Navigate conflict spectrum
° Create commitment and accountability

? What lessons can be learnt?
° Growing a strong team identity is an ongoing process.
° A team consists of people. People with different skills, temperaments and learning curves.

? What are the implications for our team?
° Work with people initially and throughout your project to encourage them to commit to your project's goals
° Plan in sufficient detail
° Identify and address conflicts promptly
Plot a Team Action Plan for addressing Innovation Thinking in a company,
Conduct as follows:
A community project team is formed to achieve a community service purpose of reducing food wastage by restaurants. This team will collect leftover food from restaurants and then distribute it to needy ones for free. The team requires resources but does not want the needy people to pay for the food therefore, they will also look for sponsorship. It is a pilot project that will run for 7 weeks.
The team is divided into four departments.
1) Admin
2) Marketing
3) logistics

? Set of goals and objectives
° Experiment a solution for Food Waste crisis.
° Spread awareness about food wastage.
° Make a positive impact on the hunger and health crisis within the city.
° Establish a social media platform and create awareness of the initiative's services
° Execute minimum two mass food drive before January 2020

Activity 5

Monitor innovation progress to each:
Developing a greater level of competence within the team in being innovative
Greater level of competence within the team helps the team in bringing out more creative and innovative solutions.

Developing a greater sense of team confidence and team-efficacy (Team
Potency) in being innovative
This is extremely important to bring out the best of a team that has to be creative and is not expected to conduct similar tasks every time.

Developing a team identity as one of being an effective innovator
The cognitive component of work team identity measures how much the individual perceives characteristics in common among other members of the group.

Activity 6

Devise an Action Plan.

Devise an action plan your plan should include specific actions that focuses on Leadership enablers of thinking and practice.

Determining what are the capabilities

° Self-Managing
° Acting Strategically
° Being An Effective Communicator
° Being Accountable And Responsible

Determining how the capabilities interact with each other in encouraging innovation

Considering ways in which changes in the team's Relational Transparency capabilities could impact on quality

CASE STUDY:
NIKE - Product development from concept to consumer

Question:
Please, demonstrate and evaluate the stages involved in the product development, from conception of an innovation product, through the research and development stage, to brain storming, production and market risk. (Min 1200 Words, all areas are to be covered, All underlined)

Identify 2 x areas for improvement for NIKE best practice management and explain in a short business report (500 words) what they are about and how they can be successfully implemented into Australian context.

1. Compare and contrast current and past theories and thinking about innovation

Initially, innovation was limited to scientific labs and once a new concept was introduced, it took years to be introduced in market to be used by common people.
The technology grew very slowly because it passed from one region to another after a long time.
There was no specific process to instil innovation in organization and access to scientific equipment was limited as production was slow.
Directive leadership was followed in which workers were only allowed to follow the instructions.
Resource based development held many countries and organization back from joining others in innovation and development.

2. Explain how theory and thinking on innovation and creativity can contribute to applied practice
3. Discuss the impact of leadership style on innovation in organizations, including how specific approaches may encourage or inhibit innovation
4. Discuss the relevance of organizational and industry context on innovation
5. Analyse the internal and external conditions or factors that impact on organizational innovation
6. Outline strategies for identifying, assessing, and managing risks associated with innovation
7. Provide examples of innovation drivers in an organisation
8. Provide examples of innovation enablers in an organization
9. List and describe mechanisms at system or process level that can support innovative practices
10. Discuss typical challenges and barriers to innovation within an organization and ways of overcoming these challenges and barriers.

Attachment:- Lead innovative thinking and practice.rar