EP 208: Stakeholder pitching - How to win the buy in of internal stakeholders before you start prototyping- Jens Heitland

Welcome to HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

This episode covers the topic of winning stakeholders before you start prototyping an idea inside of your innovation funnel.

In this episode I cover the topic of Strategy gathering as part of preparing for Scenario workshops which will enable an organization to find out what problems the innovation team will focus on.

In this episode I let the listener look into my big list of things I have written down during the last 20 years that I did not like about how people lead me.

I call this list how I will not lead. I am looking at this list at least once per year to remind myself about all the topics.

Topics I cover:

I will not micromanage my team

I will not jump in and solve every problem

I will not be a tank / asshole

I will not let people “hurt” me in public

I will not be the grumpy manager

I will not shout at others

I will not type while a person talks to me

I will not blame my team members in public

I will not talk negative about people behind their back

I will not wait to long to take decisions

The topic of the episode: Corporate Innovation - How to build an innovation team?

• Questions I answered in the live show:

• What is the right org setup for innovation?

• How do I find the right people for innovation?

• Do I need to lead innovators differently?

• How do I train people to innovate?

The topic of the episode: Corporate Innovation - How can human innovation change business results?

Questions I answered in the live show:

Because of covid it is all about saving costs right now in our company. How can I still innovate?

Everyone talks about innovation in our company but all we do are small improvements rather than real innovation. How to change that?

I am a new leader in an organization and responsible for +100 people. How do I motivate people that are long term in the company to innovate themselves?

How could I measure our innovation efforts differently? I am working in finance administration and am responsible for producing the weekly reports. How can we measure innovation?

I don’t have an innovation question but hope you can help me. I am working in a large organization and would like to hire a new person but don’t have the head count. How can I get a new headcount approved?

I am a manager with 5 direct reports, 5k employee company. My manager has no idea how to lead people. He is micromanaging me and the other managers. I am considering leaving the company but want to give it another last try, any idea what I could do?

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The topic of today’s episode is: Corporate Innovation - How to engage the organizational silos?

Questions I answer in the show:

What can I do as a leader in mid management to encourage my team to work better with other teams when innovating?

Other departments work against us, how do I turn this around as a leader?

The other departments (marketing and Finance) are not supporting the innovation efforts despite that it is a clear goal in our company strategy. What can I do as a leader?

Our innovation team works a lot but we don’t get recognized from the organization. What should we do to improve ourselves?

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The topic of today’s episode is: How do I manage stakeholders - the human way?

Questions I cover in the show:

• How do I manage stakeholders - the human way?

• How to map stakeholders - the human way?

• Why should you build a relationship with your stakeholders to innovate?

• How to collaborate with stakeholders - the human way?

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The topic of today’s episode is: How to empower people to innovate?

Questions I cover in the show:

• How to transform a business the human way?

• How to lead a business transformation the human way?

• How to communicate a transformation the human way?

• How to involve employees in a business transformation the human way?

• How to ensure long term success in a business transformation the human way?

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The topic of today’s episode is: How to empower people to innovate?

Questions I cover in the show:

• How to empower people to innovate?

• How to delegate to innovate?

• How to build trust to innovate?

• How to collaborate to innovate?

• How to support personal and professional growth to innovate?

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The topic of today’s episode is: What is the magic zone in human innovation?

Questions I cover in the live show:

What is the magic zone in human innovation?

Why do you call it the magic zone?

How does the magic zone play a role in my human innovation system?

How can I lead in the magic zone?

How do I engage with the community with the magic zone?

How do I impact a business with the magic zone?

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The topic of today’s episode is: How do I lead myself

Questions I cover in the live show

• How Do I lead myself

• Why do so many people don’t know what their superpower is?

• How can we find our superpower?

• What is our Ambition and how can we find it?

• What are strategies to keep my ambition?

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Last week I was interviewed by Katharina Mormann from Aragón Exterior here in Zaragoza Spain

Aragon Exterior is the Foreign Trade and Investment Promotion Agency of the Regional Government of Aragón, Spain.

Katharina established a Webinar / Podcast called La Ventana al Mundo - the window to the world

Enjoy the Q&A Moderated by Katharina Mormann

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The topic of today’s episode is: How to build an innovation System for a company?

Because this is a complex topic I have created a PDF that supports visually what I explain.

The 4 parts I explain are:

Problem

• What do we want to solve and why?

Sourcing

• What are the ideas and solutions we want to test?

Validating

• What solution is valuable to scale?

Scaling

• How to measure and secure success long term

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The topic of today’s episode is: How to build innovation Culture?

Some of the questions I’ll cover in this episode:

• What is innovation culture?

• How to build an innovation culture?

• Why does a company benefit from an innovation culture?

• How to build an innovation lab?

• What is the difference between innovation and entrepreneurship?

• How to build an innovation strategy?

• Innovation Culture vs Innovation Management

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The topic of today’s episode is: How to generate business impact?

Some of the questions I’ll cover in this episode:

Definition of impact!

How to change a business model?

How to generate quick success to convince my manager?

You always talk about leadership and empowerment. What about the business?

How to get started with innovation?

How to measure success in innovation?

Is innovation important for business success?

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The topic of today’s episode is How to transform a business

Some of the questions I’ll cover in this episode:

What can I do as a manager to manage change?

How can Innovation help businesses to transform?

How to secure a Business transformation long term?

Why should our business transform when everything is well?

How can I support transformations as an employee?

When should a business transform?

HIQA (Human Innovation Questions Answered Live)A format where I answer questions and go deeper into a specific topic.

The topic of this episode was: How not to pitch as a startup

Some of the questions I’ll cover in this episode:

• What is the right process?

• How do you structure an innovation department?

• How to convince my manager that we should innovate?

• How to motivate the organization to innovate?

• How much should the innovation budget of an organization be?

HIQA (Human Innovation Questions Answered Live)A new format where I answer questions and go deeper into a specific topic.

This time I will share insights from the Mobile World Congress and the Five Years From Now conference in Barcelona where I listened to plus 50 startup pitches and took notes.