4D Design – Action steps

Action step 1: Innovation container and environment.

Focus:

• Focuses on discernment about the innovation project.
• Developing the readiness of the team as a container for the task ahead.
• Developing the organization as a nurturing environment for change.

Benefits:

• Appropriate structure.
• Shared leadership.
• Genuine community.

Development goals:

Learn how to function as a container for the innovation project:

• Exploring each other’s perspectives on innovation and change.
• Exploring how the environment of the project will affect it.
• Exploring how essential qualitative data is to both developing a project and monitoring its progress.

Action step 2: Innovation interaction and construction.

Focus:

• Focuses on engagement through groundwork.
• Inviting stakeholders to the learning circle.
• Creating strategic plans for the innovation project, team and organization.

Benefits:

• Playful involvement.
• Breakthrough learning.
• Growth from within.

Development goals:

Learn how to design innovation collectively.

• Learning how to take a 4D leadership role in interacting and co-creating innovation with your stakeholders.
• Learning how to, with a collective, develop a project strategy that become the foundation for all decision making throughout your project.

Action step 3: Innovation implementation and exchange.

Focus:

• Focuses on execution and implementation of the planned actions.
• Monitoring and adjustment of the strategic plans based on the generated data.

Benefits:

• Spirited performance.
• High efficiency.
• High productivity.
• Elimination of barriers, to do a job quickly – with excellence and pride.

Development goals:

Learn how to 4D Design your collective innovation project.

• Learning about how to iterate your project and build your team through sharing learning experiences.
• Learning how to apply your project strategy through experimenting with resource allocation based on your own monitoring data.