Coolture Sprint — English

Definition of Coolture Sprint

A Coolture Sprint is transversal innovation sessions through Design Thinking and Behavioral Sciences workshops to evaluate and design Innovation Cultures and Ecosystems in organizations.

How is a Coolture Sprint structured?

1.- Explanation of the main concepts of Culture and Innovation.

In this section, depending on the people, work department, and background, you will have to explain the main concepts of culture and innovation.

Focus on types of culture in organizations and what behaviors and skills are recurrent in innovative people. Here are some examples of innovation behaviors.

• Experimentation

• Collaboration

• Questioning and problem discovery

• Resilience

• Entrepreneurship

• Leadership

• Diversity

• Patronage

• Networks

• Etc.

2.- Evaluation of the current culture of innovation through in-depth interviews and a survey application.

Based on innovation behaviors, how do people behave in this area? What behaviors, of those previously mentioned, does your organization reward or punish?

To identify areas of opportunity, we will apply in-depth interviews to colleagues.

We know in advance that people often express perceptions and not always facts. To avoid this small but significant problem, I recommend using the “fact-finder” tool.

Simultaneously, it is necessary to apply an assessment to identify the opportunities of the innovation culture in the organization and thus also determine the desired innovation behaviors.

You can see in the following link the assessment that we have carried out. https://bit.ly/3xkBgYj

3.- Identification of areas of opportunity in desired innovation behaviors

Once you apply the assessment, you will have to identify and prioritize what behaviors you want to change or promote in people.

4.- Identification of innovation blockers

At this stage, in-depth interviews will be beneficial to identify what obstacles prevent us from generating innovative behaviors. An example could be a lack of time to experiment with business ideas or a lack of support and support from executives.

5.- Mapping your current Culture of Innovation

In this phase, you will use the Culture Map tool to map the current state of the Culture of Innovation in your organization. Here you will have to capture:

1) the final results you expect from having a culture of innovation,

2) the current behaviors of the teams in the organization and

3) innovation blockers.

6.- Prototyping of the desired Innovation Culture

Now is the time to intentionally design your desired Culture of Innovation. For this exercise, you will also use the Culture Map.

7.- Design of interventions for behavior change through Behavioral Sciences.

We are now in the creative part of the Coolture Sprint. Here you will have to start asking interesting questions about the behaviors captured in your Culture Map.

Example: How might we better use our time to develop new ideas and experiment with them during business hours? You will have to ask a lot of HMW questions to start generating creative solutions.

Having an exciting number of these solutions, you can use the NUF technique (Acronym of New, Useful, and Feasible) to prioritize ideas.

Now we will have to make use of the Behavioral Sciences for the previous solutions to take effect. For this, we will base ourselves on theories and processes of change of habits.

Here we will use the BEANs — Behavior Enablers, Artifacts, and Nudges — to incorporate the automatic adoption of desired behaviors through organizational habits.

Remember that BEANs will work best if they are memorable, fun, and easy to adopt. Keep in mind that a habit always has three fundamental characteristics:

1) A cue

2) A routine

3) A reward or celebration. TIP: Experiment with various rewards or celebrations

Use them when designing your BEANs.

Example of a BEAN.

At Google, they wanted to promote experimentation with new ideas in their work teams. Still, they detected important innovation blockers, one of them was the lack of time to experiment with new ideas due to their daily workload.

They devised a successful BEAN, which they called 70/20/10. This BEAN consists of dedicating 70% of your working time to your daily activities, 20% of the time creating new ideas, and 10% to experiment with them. From this BEAN, Jake Knapp created the Design Sprint methodology.

Best practices.

• When performing the Culture Map, start with the Behaviors, followed by the Results, and finally with the Enablers or Blockers.

• The duration of the Coolture Sprint is approximately 6–8 hours.

• If you are a facilitator, prepare in advance the information gathered from the in-depth interviews and the survey.

Are you interested in facilitating these types of Workshops?

Join us for our next Workshop: Coolture Sprint, next May 20 and 21.

Here all the information. https://bit.ly/3dJ2EYc