Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization Hardcover – 1 January 2020

The media could not be loaded. Innovation is something different that creates value but it is an unnatural act in most of the organizations. This book is about innovation and how to make it a day-to-day habit in any organization. This book can be used as a practical guide for building a culture of innovation in any organization. The book suggests to ingrain certain habits by using behaviour enablers, artifacts, and nudges.The book is divided into two parts - the first part sets the foundation and The second part provides practical tools and tips and inspiring stories to help drive cultural change.The approach that the book suggests is the convergence of four streams of research --- Organizational culture-- Habit change-- Innovation enabling behaviors-- Innovation enhancing structures and systemsLet’s talk about how organizational culture impedes or enables the innovations to fail or succeed.Organizational CultureNow the first thing, How do you bring cultural change in any organization that enables innovations to succeed ? The enemy of innovation inside most organizations is institutionalized inertia that is reinforced in systems and norms.Cultural change is not a paint-by-number exercise. The solution for your organization needs to be tailored to your unique goals, current context, and history.How to create a culture of innovation ? the authors say - don’t bring foosball tables at the workplace. Don’t run useless campaigns exhorting people to give their new ideas on a particular day called “Free thinking friday” . Don’t do all these things. The authors suggest use of BEANs to hack habits. Beans are inspired by habit-change literature. A bean is - behaviour enabler, artifact and nudge.The organization will have to work at the ground level with the employees where they will have to define specific behaviours that succeed in enabling innovation. those behaviours are like --- Innovators are curious,-- Innovators are customer obsessed-- Innovators collaborate,-- Innovators can work efficiently even if there is ambiguity in the system or work space.-- Innovators feel empowered.-- Innovators think about future requirements while addressing the current needs.Now how to ingrain these behaviors into any organization ? The book says that success requires focussing on changing people’s daily habits through a series of interventions, and then ensuring that the new habits stick and scale.How Do you change a habit ?Habit change requires engaging people’s rational, logical side and their emotional and intuitive side.Habit change requires a multi front battle which uses a combination of mantras, nudges, and social interaction to change people’s behavior pattern.To Reinforce the desired behavior - goal setting and achievement and social comparison and encouragement can be used.Here the authors suggest use of BEANs to change the impeding behaviour and engrain new habits which enable innovation to succeed.What are the behaviour enablers - these are the direct way to change behaviour --- Developing a daily ritual-- Building a wider community-- Having access to a coach and counsellor-- Create simple checklists or user guides.Artifacts are physical and digital reinforcers that connect the first two ideas. Artifacts include --- Prizes and trophies-- Physical Avatars that reinforce the desired changes-- Picture and visuals that serve as background reminders-- Physical objects that sit on desks or in conference rooms.What are nudges that can be used to change behaviour ? nudges are an indirect way to change the behavior.Making the desired behavior default.-- Having reminders.-- Creating and sharing stories-- Using physical office design to facilitate specific behaviour.-- Providing some form of comparisonThe book also talks about a case study where it provides a step by step guidance on how to conduct a six week sprint to develop practical interventions and catalyze a group of change agents for innovation to succeed.PART IIPart II contains practical tips and tools and inspiring stories to help you drive culture changes that sticks and scales. Short sections are organized into chapters tied to the phases. A phase is what a would be innovator should follow :-Phase 1 - Discover Opportunity by Being curious and customer obsessed. In this phase you discover the problem that you want to solve.Phase 2 - Blueprint compelling ideas by being collaborative and customer obsessed. In this phase you come up with tangible idea that solves the problem that was identified in phase 1Phase 3 - Assess and test ideas By being adept in ambiguity and by being empowered. This phase involves picking up an idea, looking at it from multiple angles, separating facts from assumptions, testing rigorously and adapting quickly.Phase 4 - Move ideas forward by being empowered and collaborativeFor each phase the book talks about 4 things -beans that include behaviour enables, artifacts and nudges. The book lists around 101 BEANS used by various companies and book talks about around 40 of them in detail in this book., There are also bean boosters that help maximize the impact of selected beans.Each section has one or two inspirational case studies.Each chapter has a tool to help. For example in phase 1 - Being curious is a must for being innovative. The book suggests a tool called - curiosity quotient which can give you an idea of how curious you or your team are ?Finally, the verdict. The book is good. It has a lot of examples in the form of beans, case studies. This book gives a fair idea of how to inculcate the habit of innovation in your team at granular level by using various tools. It can be started with a small team and then scaled to the whole organization. I liked this book and certainly learnt that building an innovation oriented team may not be that difficult.

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