1. Planning Your Success How to get there from here... Innovation In Micro-Enterprises Session 4:

3. The Secret of LIFE... and Innovation!

4. Like life, innovating is a journey Structuring the Innovation Process Around the Wheel of Innovation The tour of YOU YOUR Action Plan

5. WHERE are you going?

7. HOW to get there? Individual Action Plans –Individual YOU... Personal, unique, tailored –Action What will be DONE... with the goal in mind –Plan What, When, Who... Success criteria?

8. You have done this before...... or you‘d be out of business!

9. Our approach... Some TEMPLATES and TOOLS + a MODEL + your INPUT = YOUR PLAN FOR SUCCESSFUL INNOVATION

10. Let‘s go to the tool...... and you‘ll get the hang of it.

11. CmapTools Creating Concepts and Propositions

12. A model of action planning

13. Busines s innovati on Process innovatio n Product innovati on Marketin g innovatio n Organizatio nal innovation Strategy innovatio n Technol ogy innovati on Think back over the different innovation types

14. Choose your top innovation type

16. ... rank the remaining 5 types

17. Individually think through... WHY? WHAT? WHEN? WHO? HOW? WHERE?

18. Write down your thoughts...

19. ... share with a partner. (And us)

20. Jump the GAP!

21. An innovative way to remember...

22. To Do Lists: iime.tadalist.com

23. Getting Ready To Plan Actions 1.Choose, in your opinion, the best innovation type to pursue for your enterprise 2.Rank the remaining 5 innovation types – 10 minutes 3.Individually write down the “why, when, who, how, where and what” related to your #1 innovation type 4.Then pair off. 1.Each of you has 5 minutes to present your story to your partner (10 minutes in total) 2.You should listen to your partner and note what struck you 5.Each of you will then report back on your impressions of your partner (2 minutes per person - 20 minutes in total) 6.Start thinking through the actions that will be necessary to progress. Write them down.

25. This is your future... invest time in your future.

26. Thank you and… … we wish you great success with your innovations!

28. Most action plans consist of the following elements a statement of what must be achieved (the outputs or result areas) a spelling out of the steps that have to be followed to reach this objective some kind of time schedule for when each step must take place and how long it is likely to take (when) a clarification of who will be responsible for making sure that each step is successfully completed (who) a clarification of the inputs/resources that are needed.

29. Action Planning Process 1.Clarify the result areas on which you will be working 2.List steps necessary to achieve each result area 3.Sequence the steps in a logical order 4.Assign responsibility for each activity 5.Summarize the outputs 6.Summarize the resources needed 7.Summarize the likely costs 8.Put it all together in a workplan schedule

30. RESULTS... Looking ahead!