Connecting the Left Brain and Right Brain:

What Innovation and Performance Can Offer One Another

Daniel HonkerCity of Austin Office of Innovation

The City of Austin Office of Innovation

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What we do

We help diverse and inclusive teams examine challenges and opportunities to surface better ideas and solutions that make a lasting, positive impact.

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What is “innovation?”

Innovation:

Any project that is new to you and has an uncertain outcome.

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“Innovation doesn’t start with an idea. It starts with thinking in a different way about

the problem, or by identifying a new opportunity.”

- Christian Bason, Leading Public Sector Innovation

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Image by Allan Ajifo7

Innovation Framework by Humantifichttp://issuu.com/humantific/docs/humantificthinkingmadevisible 8

Innovation Framework by Humantifichttp://issuu.com/humantific/docs/humantificthinkingmadevisible

Invent

Seize the unknown

Imagination

Future focus

Create new things

Improve

Perfect the known

Logic

Today focus

Enhance existing things

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Innovation Framework by Humantifichttp://issuu.com/humantific/docs/humantificthinkingmadevisible

Invent

Seize the unknown

Imagination

Future focus

Create new things

Improve

Perfect the known

Logic

Today focus

Enhance existing things

PERFORMANCE INNOVATION

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HANDOFFS

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Karl Duncker’s “candle problem”

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“Candle problem 2.0”Sam Glucksberg, Princeton Psychologist

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Incentives and evaluation criteria often stunt creative thinking.

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Create a safe space for exploring problems and new solutions.

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Innovation Framework by Humantifichttp://issuu.com/humantific/docs/humantificthinkingmadevisible

Measurement

Prototypes18

CivicInnovation.bloomfire.com

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