Make it Happen: Service Prototyping

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Houston, we (also) have movies!

Alberto Alessi:

Edward De Bono:

And others:

• Kobus Neethling
• Jos Corstjens
• Simon Dewulf
• Tim Hurson
• and Mark Raison

+ Check the Flanders DC-YouTube channel for more short movies on innovation/creativity and more!

Houston, we have…REPORTS

And they are waiting impatiently to be downloaded and read!

• Kobus Neethling
• Herman Van den Broeck
• Mark Raison
• Jan Buijs
• Simon Dewulf
• Tim Hurson
• and of course: Alberto Alessi

You can also download reports on the best of workshops:

• Make it happen with… complementary money, by Igor Byttebier
• How to Make it Happen? About Commitment and Recognition, by Anne Heleen Bijl
• The IdeaDJ presents: 37 Ways for Implementation, by Marc Heleven & Ramon Vullings
• Pinching the Ostrich, by Karl Raats
• The Practice of Convergence, by Mark Raison

View all of them: www.eccixi.eu/reports.html

ECCI XI 2009, a final round-up

With ECCI XI 2009 already passed, I would like to make a round-up: What was the message? What did we learn? And what do we need to do now? These are off course my own opinions, so feel free to add your own 3:

Message
Make it happen: implement your creative ideas into society, your company, your life NOW. No time to waste, no reflecting on reflections, but action!

Learned:
1. We need QUANTITY to obtain quality.
There is always a barrier we need to cross (the monday-morning ideas) to get to the interesting stuff. The same goes for the number of people that are convinced of the need to change, in order to get momentum to realise the change.

2. We need to MOTIVATE people into action.
Emotions (and metaphores, feelings,…) are often left out when it comes to business (“please, do not have fun…”), and this is absolutely necessary to keep everyone going.

3. CHOOSE and USE.
There is an endless supply of techniques to create new idea’s, and the same amount of techniques to implement those idea’s (although every innovation consultant will claim his or hers is better). Find out what works for your company (adapt, create, recycle), and use them!

4. Have COURAGE, think IMPOSSIBLE.
We have to aim high, even impossibly high, to radically change our ways of dealing with situations/problems/… No success without failure: the man who discovered fire, probably burned himself for his peers to understand the importance.

Action:
Don’t keep the message and what we learned inside the conference, but take it outside. EVERYONE inside society, the company, and your life should know about (your) creative and innovative ideas. This changes the state of mind of people, and the new ideas won’t be blocked/ignored by people that don’t know, but they will expand and generate new ideas themselves.

More reviews of ECCIXI at Mouseover.be [Dutch]

Not all reviews were made in English and posted on this event blog. There is more! Several postings on workshops were placed on the Flemish innovation blog Mouseover.Be. Check it out!

• Igor Byttebier over ‘complementary currencies’
• Workshops dag 1
• Jos Corstjens – Closing sessions Day 1
• Dirk Wynants – Closing sessions Day 1
• Mark Verhaege – Closing sessions Day 1
• Brand-Driven Decisions by Linda Caller
• Service Prototyping at #ECCIXI
• Think Tank met Kobus Neethling

Best of Workshops: Make it Happen with Momentum

Stavros Michailidis and Donald M. Drost (Workshop 29-10-2009 on How to make things happen?)

Six of all workshops organized during the whole ECCI XI were selected for the Best of Workshops” at Friday afternoon. One of them was presented by Donald M. Drost, a professor of Physics and Stavros, a young consultant and entrepreneur. Or, how experience and fresh energy results in an interesting combination.

When I hear the word Momentum I understand that it has something to do with “something that keeps on going” and also with what I had learned in the physics classes. But would the latter be considered in this workshop?… We took of by kicking a foot ball, a rugby ball, a heavy fitness ball and a balloon to each other. This simple exercise was actually the essence of the whole workshop. To move a ball (with a certain mass) in the direction of somebody, you have to give it a certain velocity (by kicking it). The ball keeps rolling until there is some other force that stops it. Except from air and ground friction this other force is the foot of the person that receives the ball. (The inflated balloon has almost no mass but it experiences a big air friction because of it size) Are you still following? If not, I would suggest to pick up you physics book again.

The Physics
After some more theoretical basics the actual meaning of Momentum was presented
Momentum = a mass with a certain velocity in a certain direction

For each project, big or small, life or work related, started, ongoing or ending… you need always:

• Sources – e.g. knowledge, money, information, people…
• Speed – effectiveness, moving in time, proceed, motivation
• Direction – knowing what you want to reach

To explain this a bit more: if you have enough resources (capacity) and speed (you work hard), but you do not have a certain direction, you can consider this as chaos. On the other hand if you have a certain goal, but you lack the resources and you have not started yet going forward to this goal, we can consider this as just good intentions. (e.g. You want to travel to Cuba, but you do not have money and you have not started to plan it yet.) The optimal Momentum only happens when you have enough resources that are moving with a certain speed towards a certain goal.

If you apply this understanding to some examples of your own life, you will quickly understand that this is a very powerfull tool to analyze the status of any project and to see what the status is and how you can make it more happen.

Did you reach the momentum yet?

A final review

Here you can see a short movie with some fragments of the 3 days of ECCI XI. Enjoy!

(Sorry for the quality, time was not on our side)

(And it looks like the sound was turned down by Youtube)

the small CHALLENGE Post!

2.5 days down, a few hours to go.

But the question remains… How many people have already completed their personal challenge?
During the reflexion sessions we dit 10 second interviews with some people in the main hall.
The main question was: Did you allready complete your personal Challenge?

YES!        24 persons

NO        10 persons

So there is still a lot of work to be done! come on COURAGIOUS creative people!

by Louis

The big CHALLENGE post!

• Patrick’s challenge: get the footprints of Edward De Bono
  

• Simoon: Ask an autograph of Edward De Bono in a book that ‘s written by somebody else
  
• Ilse: eat 7 bananas in three days
  
• Annet wanted to have a peppered picture with Mark:
  
• Amy wanted to hide from those crazy guys:
  
  Amy’s still hiding:
  
  Where’s Amy?
  
• Brigitte wanted to express her love for ECCI
  
• Thomas wanted to get 33 people forming the word “ECCI”
  
  
• Erik wanted to do a flashmob with the audience
  
  The result:
  
• Adrian and Ramon: Romania became member of the EACI
  
• Mark is going to organize a whole week around hyper-creativity in Barcelona
  
• Tim wanted to do ‘something’ with the ECCI-crowd.
  Want to know what? Check the comments below!

So, how did you challenge yourself?
(let us know in the comments!)

Marian Philips & Mario Dobbelaere – the Innovation Liberation Movement

Or how to solve Danny’s dried-coffee-circles problem.

We learned to create ideas to help Danny to implement his cleaning-innovation. Using six keys to keep an eye on every kind of implementation; Danny was the right man to create a case-study we all could imagine.