Why is it so hard to be structured when it comes to development and innovation? Why do we skip important steps and instead jump to conclusions? Why aren’t there more new products and services being realised and successful?

From more than 200 conducted product development projects, we have assessed the experiences and produced an effective tool – highly functional for both entrepreneurial business and large corporations.

Do you want change? Then join us in a 4-hour workshop, learn how Need Based Innovation works – and get inspired. We build the programme on real-life cases, create examples in order to develop each individual pushing an idea forward. Rapidly and with input from all participants, we work our way through the phases Insight, Innovation and Implementation, Need Based Innovation brings new energy to product development and innovation!

Visual Management – Why does it work?

Visual Management techniques, like Kanban and Scrum boards, are spreading fast, from technical sectors, like manufacturing and software development to white-collar work and service sectors within such disparate areas as health care, marketing & HR departments and law firms.

Why is this happening?

In this 50-minute talk, I will exemplify and summarise some basic principles behind visual management techniques, using modern theoretical models from neuroscience and behaviour analytics to explain why they are so effective.

My Bio
Mattias Hällström, founder of Projectplace, is head of Research and Development at Projectplace International. Mattias is passionately interested in human nature and new social technology for Organizational Behaviour Management.

What you can see, you can understand and improve. During this lecture we will introduce you to a new format when improving businesses. It furthers productive interaction from various stakeholders from the very beginning of the ideation process and is based on a visual representation of improvement hypothesis or challenge. It continues and with quick refinement loops in a prototyping format that makes it possible to discover any misinterpretations that would jeopardize the usability of the final result. The format is supportive to traditional methods and consist of a software tool used for visualization and prototyping and a methodology of capturing and structuring information in an innovative way.
Ortelius Management was awarded by Red Herring as one of the European Top 100 most innovative companies in 2011 for this ability to capture and visualize enterprise dependencies. An ability we have used for providing our customers with the map to safely navigate their improvements to a value contributing result quicker, safer and a lower cost than any other method.
To highlight the versatility of the format we will provide you with a number of case-stories from different application areas; such as the usability for strategy development, redefining quality monitoring, product portfolio visualization, carbon foot print projects, factory production planning and IT delivery management.

You will run into setback in your change effort – sooner or later - even if you are smart

We propose to first have a presentation followed by workshops.
Some highlights from the content of the presentation:
- Reality check from 50 lean initiatives
- Characteristics from a well performed revitalization of a change effort
- Keys for successful structural design to ensure durable performance and efficiency in value creation
Estimated time for presentation, 30 minutes.

Description of workshop:
- Diagnostic of the individual company´s or organisations current lean initiatives.
Well prepared interview exploring effectiveness and effects from the lean initiative.
- Estimated time for workshop per company or organisation 60 minutes.
- Target group, mature lean initiatives running for at least one year  

Biology

Leadership design Group

Leadership Design Group enables companies to achieve exceptional results. Among our customers and partners are executives, managers, teams and organizations in corporations you maybe know. But what you maybe do not know, is why they are so successful.

Jan Wiestål

I enjoy working with processes that lead to improvement. This has contributed to my great interest in lean and organisational development which is my areas of expertise. I have 20 years’ experience in various management, project management and consulting roles.

This is a talk about the experiences I made in the almost three years I have been part in transforming a large company. A good method description is not enough, adding a tool and a large enablement concept helped and yet there is still something missing.

I will talk about the approach we took, how we tried to minimize the risks of rolling it out, and where we were wrong..

So tips and trick, failures and wins…

Time: 45-60 minutes
Level: All
Unique: Oh yes I am :-) Experiences from almost three years in an agile transformation.

Bio Gitte

Gitte Klitgaard Hansen is an Agile Coach, Scrummaster, Tester, Pirate, Dragon Lady, and much much more. She is agile; live it and love it. Preferred starting point is scrum and then adapting is the key.
Based in Århus, Denmark

Gitte has 10 years experience in different aspects of software development from testing, analysis, processes to currently doing Agile Transformation. She wants to change the world by helping people in their work life; getting more work done, making the right product, doing it right and very very important: have fun doing it
She is also a geek and very passionate about a lot of stuff  At first she thought she wasn't good enough to be geek. Then she thought that she was a geek and apologized for it... And now she just embraces it

Tempo!: The reality Dysfunction puts the fun back in dysFUNctional.

How did we end up with so many dysfunctional companies? To fix the problems we face today, we must understand the causes.

Tempo!: The Reality Dysfunction is a romp through the wild side of management history: It starts with a bang, a train crash the 5th of October 1841, with consequences that cause companies to fail in 2013.

You will meet the unbeatable fighter pilot, who also figured out how to build an unbeatable organization. You will see what managers must know to lead an Agile development team.

You will see how most companies are applying fundamental principles of strategy, psychology, and physics backwards, and hurt and disable themselves in the process. You will also find out what to do about it, and who has already succeeded.

There will be a practical demonstration, with members of the audience, showing how a simple restructuring of work can reduce lead times by 60% or more, while increasing quality.

And, you will have fun!

Why are some organizations better, sometimes much better, at reaching their goals?
Can we explain & understand the difference in ways that help us transition towards higher performance?

I believe we can and that the answer is straight-forward, surprisingly simple & actionable.
This session will be about the surprising power of mindset, at the personal, group
& organizational level. Covering topics like:
* why is 'mindset' important?
* what can we predict from different personal mindsets?
* how do these findings apply to an organization?
* an introduiction to a simple model of organizational effectiveness

Time: 45 minutes
Level: All

Notes for reviewers:
This session builds upon Carol Dweck's ideas & research into mindset using that as the foundation to explore the wider organizational psyche and introduce based on that the notion of Rightshifting as outlined by Bob Marshall

The knowledge and abilities you need to develop in order to successfully manage profound changes*.

Team members, change team, project team and other stakeholders and staff in the organisation have to be involved and feel involved in both decision making and the actual implementations. This is the key prerequisite for a successful change initiative. Management of profound change is one of our established work models and core competence.

Visualisation and design thinking mean that you are aware of your thinking patterns as a team member, and also how the thinking of other team members look like. Decisions are visually documented and analysed on a flip chart. Action plans are clear concerning responsibility and acceptance. Computers and other “technical assistance” are not used in this part of the creative process.

We denote Personal Productivity as Personal Effectiveness, which means that you are aware of:
• How You contribute to and how you prove success, regarding high level short term targets as well as long term targets of prioritised Key Performance Indicators.
• How You and each team member can see his or her possibility to influence and carry out step wise improvements, in connection to the targets.
• How You and each other team members can see what happens inside themselves in stress related situations.
• How You are influenced by the stress related communication styles of people important to you.
• How You see options available to you, in choosing strategy regarding business process and mental process.

*) Profound Change is change of high levels of complexity, high cost and high risk. Examples of profound change: Organisational change, introduction of new working processes and IT systems, introduction of new products and services, implementation of new business strategies, business models, integration of new business areas or acquisitions.

Estimated time for presentation, 30 - 40 minutes.

About us

Leadership Design Group

Leadership Design Group enables companies and organizations to achieve exceptional results. We have deep skills and extensive experience in management of change, of both high and medium level of complexity.

Kristina Risén

• Over 25 years of experience working as a change specialist/consultant. Specialist in team development, training of change specialists, communication and conflict management and stress-related behaviors / defense communications.
• Working with business processes and mental processes in parallel to achieve the unique change results.
• Specialist in organizational psychology and teacher. Certified Therapist in areas such as NLP, ICC, IMAGO, partner relationship coaching and body psychotherapy.

Continuous Improvement is something that is very tightly connected with being professional no matter which line of business you are in. And when you are on the Learning path odds are you will stay there no matter what because it is more a way of living than an achievable goal. Even though one thing is to improve yourself and another is to guide other people to join you in this journey.
During this speech I want to share my experience from past few years about building the culture of Continuous Learning inside the team I'm part of. How we started, what practices we tried and failed, what other practices we tried and failed again, where we are now and what we are doing to stay on our path, and how our approach to improvement influenced our way of looking at recruitment process.
I hope I'll be able to convince you to build Continuous Learning Culture in your team/company.

Format: Session

Duration: 30-45-60. I can adjust the content accordingly to the time slot.

For reviewers:
This session is based on my 3+ years of different attempts to improve learning attitude in my team and the whole company and 6+ years with working on self-improvement every day. My goal is to spread better understanding of Continuous Learning Culture and building it inside their own team/company. Stepping out of their comfort zones and learning. Food for thought and experiments.

Bio:
As a leader I deeply believe that successful team is build upon trust, respect and accountability. I love what I do. That is why I love to work with people who are passionate about their work as I am and spend time developing their skills. I'm a Rightshifter. I have 3+ years of experience with Kanban. You can find me on twitter: http://twitter.com/p_leszczynski

You can design the best user experience possible, but if your product is not good enough or relevant enough it does not matter. There is a paradox: that with so many good designers and developers, yet so few good services. Complexity in products and services are directly exposed to users through the transparency of the web – development and design should not start with implementing. It should start with "how can we change this product or service so that it will be successful on the web"

I have held this talk two times in norway, at Smidig 2011 and Software 2012. It was voted as one of the five best talks at Smidig.

The session is unique in that it bridges the gap between development, design and business development. It blends theory with practical examples and lots of inspiration.

The format is preferrably a 20 minute talk (or call for arms)

AGILE MARKETING - Tomorrows model to ensure maximum customer benefit.
The role of marketing is rapidly changing and marketer’s has to adopt to this new reality. The role has gone from building awareness to provide strategic business value with creativity as one of the main tools. Planning marketing has gone from large easy handled campaigns in a few channels into a myriad of small activities in the same number of channels, all which need to be synchronized.
With such a complex task it requires ability to adopt and prioritize campaigns with the highest business value, promote efficiency, structure and the ability to track the effect of marketing investments. Agile marketing is the tool to get the work done and we have a mission, we want to kill the myth that creativity is hampered by structures and would rather claim the opposite.

”Not everyone can relate to Agile but everyone can relate to food. Especially really good food. ”

The business of delivering great food experiences is ancient. What also is amazing is that it follow some basic rules to achieve success. Rules that are strikingly similar to the Agile Manifesto.
- Adapt to change because the guest is allways right.
- Plan to deliver what the guest is asking for.
- Make everyone know what your doing at all times to the delivery will happen.
- Deliver!

In November 2012 the first version on the session ”Cooking Agile- a practical course in Agile” was tested. It was based on the understanding that IT-business could benefit from understanding the harsh reality of the restaurant business. In many, if not every, aspect of great ITbusinesses there is a corresponding aspect in the great Restaurants way of working. Visions, roadmap, stories, management, developing, releasing, customer support et c.

In this session Johan Timander, Agile Coach and Project Manager at Beamon Consulting disclose the insight of creating a common language around agile matters, using the Kitchen as metaphore. Move away from who has read most books, who said what and why and get in the business of getting things done. Get cooking!

Johan Timander has 12 years of project experience from various businesses, roles, organisations. He now works as an Agile Coach and Project Manager at Beamon Consulting. He has experience of working with the Agile Manifesto at Scania, ComHem, SBAB Bank and mentored many in how to actually be more agile.

60 min talk

Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) has been delivering great news to the Norwegian public for decades. We know how to do it, and we do it well.

However the media landscape is moving in high speed, introducing platforms, formats & devices and brand new ways of bringing news to the public.
How do NRK start evolving their way of developing other ways of broadcasting news?

We'll share experiences from lean product development in a unlean world:
- sketching the idea
- building the minimum team
- playing with concept
- selling the idea
- building the minimum product
- empowering the organization
- going live
- dealing with feedback
- learning in realtime

The project startet with a handfull people, and ended up as a major testlaunch to learn how we should build next generation news services from NRK. Started in May 2012, ended in November 2012.

More info:
http://nrkbeta.no/2012/11/27/hjelp-oss-teste-nytt-format-for-nyhetsformidling/