Topic Details
Overview of The Six ā€˜Iā€™sĀ® How it works at the level of skills, mindsets, processes and culture
Innovation Theory Key definitions and what it means to lead innovation
Clarity around PURPOSE of team Discussion and exploration of the leadership teamā€™s, PURPOSE and goals
E.g. Why is innovation important to the organisation? Whatā€™s the burning platform? Whatā€™s the goal? The role of the leader?
Six ā€˜Iā€™s Ā® Full Reports Strengths of each leader, and how these strengths impact innovation efforts, focus and culture
Six ā€˜Iā€™sĀ® Team Profile
  • Team strengths ā€˜at a glanceā€™: Analysis of the leadership teamā€™s top strengths across the six stages
  • Deep dive evaluation of team strengths at each stage, exploring six specific innovation skills
  • Discussion around three concepts in the Heat Map: (1) Innovation Leadership, (2) Culture and (3) Open innovation & collaboration
  • Action planning around introducing or strengthening culture, systems or processes to support team or company-wide innovation


Topic Details
Overview of The Six ā€˜Iā€™sĀ® How it works at the level of skills, mindsets, processes and culture
Innovation Theory Key definitions and what it means to innovate in the context of the team
Clarity around PURPOSE of team Discussion and exploration of team needs, PURPOSE and goals
E.g. Why has the team been formed? What does the team want to achieve?
Six ā€˜Iā€™s Ā® Individual Standard Report Strengths of each member and how it might influence and impact innovation efforts, and project work
Six ā€˜Iā€™sĀ® Team Report
  • Team strengths ā€˜at a glanceā€™: Analysis of the team membersā€™ top strengths across the six stages
  • Deep dive evaluation of team strengths at each stage, exploring six specific innovation skillsets
  • Action planning around (1) leveraging team strengths (2) addressing team development areas

Ā #1Ā  AGILE (Non-Linear) Journey

Innovation journeys are commonly represented by an assumption that innovation starts at the same place, ā€˜the beginningā€™. The Six ā€˜Iā€™sĀ® provides a trailblazing perspective on this, by representing the journey as an inter-connected whole. In reality, innovation efforts can start at any stage, cycle back into PURPOSE, cycle back out, moving backwards and forwards at any time; to eventual value creation.

Ā #2Ā  PURPOSE at the Centre

Many processes and models suggest jumping into a challenge (the ā€˜WHATā€™). The Six ā€˜Iā€™sĀ® breaks the mould by starting at the heart of a challenge ā€¦with an exploration of the WHY? The Six ā€˜Iā€™sĀ® is an innovation MODEL for the 4th Industrial Revolution that encourages sustainability and PURPOSE at its core.

Ā #3Ā  More than just a robust PROCESS

Many innovation models focus only on the process and miss out the equally important component of building systems and policies to support innovation efforts. The two triangles that link PURPOSE to the six stages, symbolise this connection, as innovation efforts often fall apart if they donā€™t take into consideration culture and ways of working.

Ā #4Ā  PROFILING TOOLS - Leveraging

Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā  Ā Strengths, Building Capabilities

Most innovation efforts are focused on addressing a challenge or seizing an opportunity. Sometimes, innovation efforts fail because the individual or team does not possess the requisite skillset to make an idea work. The Six ā€˜Iā€™sĀ® profiling tools allow organisations to discover individual and team collective strengths, which enable targeted interventions to leverage strengths and provide support where needed.

Ā #5Ā Ā MINDSETS for Innovation

The Six ā€˜Iā€™s Ā® is the worldā€™s only Model which incorporates the various mindsets required to innovate. This is a radical breakaway from the idea that a separate, singular mindset is required.

Ā #6Ā Ā FLEXIBLE ARCHITECTURE

Adopting The Six ā€˜Iā€™sĀ® does not require a rejection of other systems and approaches. It is a flexible architecture that seamlessly incorporates other tools, methodologies, and ways of working e.g., lean, agile, sprints, design thinking, stage gates, business model canvas, lateral thinking, pitching, and so onā€¦.

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  • As an IDENTIFIER, my team and I questioned our own mindset towards what we were doing and uncovered an opportunity to try something new. Through applying the 6 'I'sĀ®, we grew our market share from 1% to 15%.

THE IDENTIFIER PROFILE

  • Innovation RoleĀ ā€“ Providing vision, direction and a sense of new possibilitiesĀ 
  • MindsetĀ ā€“ Curiosity
  • Visualising and imagining the future

  • Making sense of trends and patterns and thinking about what they might mean for opening fresh opportunities

  • Being forward thinking, strategic and noticing and seeing things that other people donā€™t

  • Being curious and having lots of different interests and a huge appetite for learning

  • Having a positive outlook on life and seeing opportunities where others see problems

  • Outward looking and interested in the world around them

  • They often seek to add new people, whom they believe will bring new thinking, to their networks.

The swirling image illustrates the mindset of Curiosity. It is open-ended, dynamic, explorative and able to generate momentum.

As with all strengths, particularly if they are overdone, there can be challenges.

  • As IDENTIFIERS are usually big-picture thinkers, they can often miss the detail

  • They can get easily bored if not stimulated by new things, new ideas and new ways of thinking

  • If intellectually driven, they can sometimes be too abstract or conceptual in how they explain things to other people.

THE IGNITER PROFILE

  • Innovation Role ā€“ Providing novelty, freshness and energy for new ideas and a sense of new possibilities

  • Mindset ā€“ Creativity

  • The first to come up with new ideas

  • Good at seeking new knowledge outside their current areas of interest

  • Not afraid of challenging their own thinking as well as that of other people

  • Original thinkers

  • Can see connections between different and unrelated ideas

  • Good at creating a culture where people feel free to contribute their ideas

  • Skilled at motivating and inspiring others.

The swirling image illustrates the mindset ofĀ Creativity. The swirl moves backwards and forwards. It is open ended and explorative.

IGNITERS love to come up with new ideas. Lots of them. But, as with all strengths, there can be challenges:

  • They can become distracted with too many ideas that take them into multiple directions. This can dilute their energy and effectiveness

  • They can get attached to their own ideas and not think through whether they are feasible

  • They can enjoy jumping into action and implementation too quickly

  • They can generate lots of ideas and not see them through into fruition.

THE INVESTIGATOR PROFILE

  • Innovation Role ā€“ Providing analytical thinking and objectivity

  • Mindset ā€“ Critical

  • Systematically researching, analysing and assessing ideas

  • Making sure ideas are useful, not just novel

  • Understanding the importance of testing and validating ideas before moving into implementation

  • Being willing to test their thinking with customers and stakeholders

  • Creating a culture where exploration and questioning is encouraged

  • Encouraging other people to think things through carefully and systematically.

The image illustrates the mindset of Investigate, Critical. The swirls, whilst still exploratory, start to converge and be more analytical in approach.

Being analytical is one of the strengths of an INVESTIGATOR, but sometimes their strengths can backfire.

  • They may continually search for more validation before they are willing to make a commitment. This can lead to a new initiative getting immobilized or stuck

  • They can get lost in the detail and lose sight of the bigger picture; why they are innovating and the overall PURPOSE

  • They can be dismissive of ideas if they donā€™t think they are feasible, being too quick to judge something that is untried or tested.

THE INVESTOR PROFILE

  • Being good at taking into account complex information and being able to make decisions

  • Understanding whether a business model might work

  • Being able to keep cool and make decisions despite difficulties

  • Can sense where and when resources should be provided

  • Influencing other organisations and people to create partnerships

  • Having the courage to take a risk.

The image represents the mindset of Courage. Swirling inwards to make a decision to act, to move forward, to go ahead.

INVESTORS need a good combination of logical and pragmatic thinking, with a willingness to follow their hunches and take a risk. These are often difficult skills to combine. Some barriers can include:

  • The need to ask for information that might be hard to quantify, which can slow down decision making

  • Not allocating separate funds outside normal day-to-day business requirements

  • Having too many conflicting demands on limited resources

  • Failing to help others grow in their ability to influence and becoming a ā€˜bottle neckā€™ in making things happen.

THE IMPLEMENTER PROFILE

  • Innovation Role ā€“ Providing management, focus and discipline

  • Mindset ā€“ Commitment

  • Being good at planning and organising

  • Making things happen

  • Managing risks

  • Motivating others to achieve results

  • Building alliances and partnerships

  • Allocating and managing resources

  • Building and managing strong teams.

The image represents the mindset of Commitment. The swirls start to form a shape, they converge in on themselves to direct energy into focused activity.

IMPLEMENTERS like to get things done, and tend to be practical and focused, and action orientated but they can:

  • Sometimes jump into action too quickly

  • Not allow time for investigating the feasibility of an idea

  • Lose sight of the innovative aspect of what they are trying to achieve

  • Get caught up in operational issues and lose sight of the bigger picture.

THE IMPROVER PROFILE

  • Innovation Role ā€“ Providing fresh perspectives, the ability to optimise and learn

  • Mindset ā€“ Clever

  • Being good at generating many ways to make an idea better

  • Being open to gathering feedback from customers, people, or stakeholders

  • Reviewing and assessing what has worked and why or why not?

  • Capturing learning

  • Learning from failure

  • Scaling an idea into other areas of opportunity.

The image represents the mindset of beingĀ Clever. The swirl starts to open up on itself again to start seeking and exploring how it canĀ do something better.

As IMPROVERS largely work with what is, rather than what could exist, they may:

  • Find it difficult to imagine completely new possibilities, and may need the support of an IGNITER

  • Rely on continuous improvement

  • Miss opportunities for more radical ideas

COREĀ TEAM

NatalieĀ Turner
FOUNDER, CEO

CarlĀ Hinds
CO-FOUNDER

HanyĀ Chee
MARKETING & CLIENT SUPPORT

Dr, BettinaĀ Von Stamm
ACEDEMIC ADVISOR - GERMANY

Six ā€˜Iā€™sĀ® Certified Practitioners

ASIA:

BrigitteĀ Zeller
SINGAPORE

JoyceĀ Jenkins
SINGAPORE

CathyĀ Johnson
SINGAPORE

Senela Jayasuriya
SRI LANKA

DavidĀ Thomas
HONG-KONG

EdmundĀ Seow
CAMBODIA

Dr. Khoh Soo Beng
MALAYSIA

LilianĀ Ing
SINGAPORE

MichaelĀ Jenkins
SINGAPORE

UNITED KINGDOM:

SimonĀ Allison
UNITED KINGDOM

NeilĀ Sykes
UNITED KINGDOM

DanielĀ Wain
UNITED KINGDOM

HarveyĀ Wade
UNITED KINGDOM

FionaĀ McClaren
UNITED KINGDOM

TimĀ Sharpe
UNITED KINGDOM

ShivaneeĀ Brigham
UNITED KINGDOM

CharlieĀ Tuxworth
UNITED KINGDOM

EUROPE:

AncaĀ Minculescu
FRANCE

KatarinaĀ Ć–nell
SWEDEN

MathiasĀ Axelsson
SWEDEN

MichaelĀ Gold
PORTUGAL


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