The Simulationist s DNA. How Simulation Experts Can Develop Personal Creativity and Drive Organizational Innovation

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The Simulationist’s DNA

How Simulation Experts Can Develop

How Simulation Experts Can Develop How Simulation Experts Can Develop

How Simulation Experts Can Develop Personal Creativity and Drive

Personal Creativity and Drive Personal Creativity and Drive Personal Creativity and Drive

Organizational Innovation

Organizational InnovationOrganizational Innovation

Organizational Innovation

Rob Bateman

Sr. Consultant & General Manager ProModel International

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Outline OutlineOutline OutlineOutline OutlineOutline Outline Importance of innovation Nature or Nurture?

Behaviors that promote innovation Types of Innovation

Types of Innovation

Simulationists in an innovative organization

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Did you know?

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The ability to learn and innovate faster than competitors is the only source of than competitors is the only source of sustained competitive advantage.

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GE Survey of 1,000 business leaders - 95% innovation most important to company - 88% innovation most important to economy

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Types of Innovation Types of Innovation Types of Innovation Types of Innovation Types of Innovation Types of Innovation Types of Innovation Types of Innovation Entrepreneurs Intrapreneurs Product Service Process Business model Society

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Nature or Nurture? Nature or Nurture? Nature or Nurture? Nature or Nurture? Nature or Nurture? Nature or Nurture? Nature or Nurture? Nature or Nurture?

General Intelligence (IQ)

o Studies of twins

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o 80-85 % is genetics

Creativity

o 30 % is genetics

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Original Principles

Early Days (Henry Ford)

Model “T” assembly line Model “T” assembly line

Smooth flow Smooth flow Minimum waste

Current Standard (Taiichi Ohno)

Toyota Production System Smooth flow

Minimum waste

AND Greater variety and Higher Quality

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o 80-85 % is genetics

Creativity

o 30 % is genetics

o So where does the rest of it come from???

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Behaviors that stimulate innovation Behaviors that stimulate innovation Behaviors that stimulate innovation Behaviors that stimulate innovation Behaviors that stimulate innovation Behaviors that stimulate innovation Behaviors that stimulate innovation Behaviors that stimulate innovation

A learned skill

Curiosity: The internet rewards it

Lateral Thinking

o Making connections between different fields o “Creativity is connecting things.” Steve Jobs

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Courage and Risk Taking

o Don’t accept the status quo

o CEO: 50% more time doing five things

o Association o Association o Questioning o Observing o Networking o Experimenting

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Associating

o Bringing together ideas o Different Industries Industries Cultures Arts Politics

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Associating

o ‘Clusters’ (Florida: Who’s your city?) o Can be forced

o As often when relaxed o As often when relaxed

o Create idea boxes (IDEO) o Metaphors

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Questioning

o More questions than answers o School rewards answers

o More provocative (challenging) questions o More provocative (challenging) questions

o Who is the real customer for this?

o What are they trying to do with it?

o Different directions: ask in different ways o 5 x Why?

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Questioning

o Change your questions: Change your life o Constantly work at asking better questions o Einstein: Can’t solve problems using the o Einstein: Can’t solve problems using the

same questions or the same solutions that got us to where we are now.

o Every gifted innovator CEO was in the

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Observing

o The anthropologist

o People “hire” a way to perform a task

o What are they really trying to do?

David Kelly

o What are they really trying to do? o How can it be applied elsewhere? o Watch for ‘workarounds’

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Networking

o Resource vs Idea Networking

o How has someone else solved this problem o TED, World Economic Forum, Aspen Ideas o TED, World Economic Forum, Aspen Ideas

Festival

o Broader network is better

o Develop a personal network of creative

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Experimenting

o Trying new experiences

o Cross-cultural experience: 35% increase

o Taking things apart o Taking things apart

o Learn how they work

o Prototyping and testing

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Innovation is not about patents

Motivation

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Motivation

Passion

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Motivation + Passion = Purpose

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Motivation + Passion = Purpose

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Motivation + Passion = Purpose

Expertise (personal) Culture (organizational) People People Processes Philosophies

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Culture

People

Processes

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People

Good to Great (Collins)

Productivity factors 3:3:3:1 Jeff Bezos (Amazon)

“Tell me about something you have invented.”

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Processes

Reward innovative behaviors

Questioning

Including the status quo

Observing

And documenting

Networking

Internally and externally

Experimenting

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Philosophies

Innovation as part of every job

Heroes and stories

Disruptive innovation (Christensen)

Project teams

Reward cooperation, not competition

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Philosophies

“Fail early, fail fast” (IDEO)

“Think Different” campaign (Apple)

“Care about something enough to do something about it.” (Branson, Virgin)

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Essential Reading Essential ReadingEssential Reading Essential ReadingEssential Reading Essential ReadingEssential Reading Essential Reading

The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills

of Disruptive Innovation

Jeff Dyer

Hal Gregersen

Clayton M. Christensen

Creating Innovators: The Making of Young

People Who Will Change the World

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Innovation at

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Process Simulator 2014

Microsoft Visio 2013

•Compatible with the 32-bit version of Visio and the new standard, compressed Office file format (.vsdx)

Change shape in existing diagram

• Don’t like the shape used in one of your diagrams? Now you can easily replace it with another shape. And all logic, properties, etc. will be retained and exist in the newly replaced shape! No copy/paste. No disconnecting and

reconnecting connections.

Percentage route in Scenarios

•Simply select percentage routings as scenario parameters and quickly do comparison analysis on different percentages.

Attach routing enhancements

•Attach by attribute value, in a specified time, and choose whether the attach occurs before or after activity logic.

Default Activity and Move times

•Specify what the default times given to activity duration and connection move times when these elements are first created in your diagram.

Released: Q3 2013

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ProModel 2014

Colorfully-formatted Logic

•We’re adding a little color and formatting to the logic windows. Statements, functions, comments, variables, attributes, etc. are automatically colored and formatted for readability and ease of understanding.

Ribbon Interface

•Menus and toolbars are replaced with a Microsoft inspired fluent Ribbon UI

Probability route in Scenarios

•You can now enter macros in probability routings and use them as scenario parameters. And yes, other expressions can be entered there as well, including arrays!

Unconstrained Resources

•Well, almost@we’ve added a new Resource Search type called First Available which allows your model to only use the units it needs. Increase the total units of a resource, run the model, and see how many units are

New Components and Bug Fixes

•Output Viewer has the latest charting components and it’s look and feel is cleaner and more

responsive. Of course there are always many fixes that we include in every release.

Anticipated Release:

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ProModel Cloud

Model Repository

•Upload your models from ProModel and Process Simulator into the repository and share them with other team members or clients.

Scenario Manager

•Create additional scenarios and run them concurrently. ProModel Cloud can

simulate as many scenarios simultaneously as you want to configure it to handle.

Report Viewer

•Design and share your Dashboards of reports with others or keep them private until you are ready to share them. Add and compare results from multiple models.

What we have today…

Layout

•Design and diagram your process flow and facility layout in your browser. We are currently evaluating third party JavaScript diagramming components such as Draw.io and Lucidchart.com

Build

•Define your model elements and logic through tables and properties windowsin your browser. We are currently designing the tables and properties user interface to be even easier to use than Process Simulator and ProModel.

Animate

•We will also eventually be looking into streaming the animation of scenarios being run.

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ProModel Cloud Architecture

ProModel Cloud Application ProModel Cloud Application

Simulation Servers Simulation Servers Scenarios are delegated to run on multiple servers Web

WebInterfaceInterface _Perform

what-if analysis by creating multiple scenarios Corporate Data Historical Database can be populated from external data sources

Application Server Application Server

Model Repository &

Models can be uploaded from ProModel client

applications

Data Files

Simulation servers run scenarios and write results back

to database Web interface edits

and stores input data and displays output results

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ProModel Enterprise

What is it? •Browser-based,

collaborative location for an organization’s modeling projects to be proposed, initiated, approved, defined, forecasted, and managed.

Who is it for?

•Initially, existing customers who use ProModel and can immediately benefit from a central system for

managing their modeling projects and associated IP.

Proof of Concept

• Collaborating with Consulting team to create the solution flow -> • Planning to use Microsoft Project server to handle work flow, project initiation, project prioritization, team collaboration, model repository, and project execution. • EPS & Portfolio Dashboard used for rapid project scheduling and scenario creation with detailed resource capacity planning, risk analysis, and predictive analytics.