Taking an Audience-Centric Approach During the Tech Adoption Lifecycle
Most marketing professionals understand that insight into the hearts and minds of your customers is central to successful product innovation. But which customers? Who is going to buy my product first? What happens after that? How can I eventually grow my customer base to one billion people?
Small Businesses can Overcome Financial Woes Through Innovation
Starting up a small business can be rough. Even if you possess near-infinite entrepreneurial spirit, chances are that you’ll run into some roadblocks along the way. Whether these obstacles are based in logistics of strategy and implementation of your business model, or even issues with the very products and services you offer, most of these problems can be solved with financial influx.
5 Things that Are Slowing Most SMBs Down
On your path towards success, your business will encounter numerous bumps, however, some of these problems tend to hold your business more than others. Most of the time, the entrepreneurs behind these SMBs are first-timers, which means that they lack the necessary experience to recognize the gravity of the situation in the given moment.
In Search of Failure – Designing for Failure?
Who would be searching for failure? Failures just happen, though we always hope to avoid them. A vile thing, a vile word, no? Read more in this weeks' column by Bengt-Arne Vedin, PhD and Professor emeritus in innovation management. And why not joining in helping Bengt-Arne improving the article by joining the discussion?
How to Avoid Open Innovation Failure
Make sure your internal innovation capabilities and processes are in order before you open up your idea and innovation strategy to the world.
The Rise of Re-Invention
The evolution of invention is speeding up exponentially, observes John Amato in this thought-provoking article.
Why management by consensus is killing innovation
One management issue that could be killing innovation efforts is an obsession by many managers that a decision can
3 key issues that can kill your innovation initiatives
Culture, Communication and Collaboration are the 3 C's that form the "soft-side" foundation of successful innovation. Without understanding your personnel "raw material" for innovation, the process may be difficult if not impossible to execute successfully.
How to Recognize Six Systemic Failures of Innovation
There are six potential types of failure within innovation systems. Are all of yours healthy?
How do you Build and Sustain a Culture and Climate for Innovation and Entrepreneurship?
The fifth major issue to be tackled by our distinguished panel of innovation practitioners is innovation culture, specifically: How do you build and sustain a culture and climate for innovation and entrepreneurship, and how do you encourage "smart risk taking" and drive out fear of failure?
Ten Top Tips for the Innovative Leader
If you want to drive innovation in your organization, then Paul Sloane has some suggestions to help you succeed.
Innovation and Learning through Successful Failures
One key to successful innovation is to learn quickly from failure, according to author Jim Clemmer.
Who is crushing creativity?
In many organizations, leaders complain that their employees aren't creative. But employees complain that they are micromanaged and not empowered to try out new ideas. Who's really at fault here?
7 Strategies for Sustained Innovation
Sustained innovation comes from developing a collective sense of purpose; from unleashing the creativity of people throughout your organization and from teaching them how to recognize unconventional opportunities. Here are seven strategies for sustaining innovation in your organization.
Questions for evaluating ideas
When brainstorming, it's not enough to generate a large quantity of ideas. You must have an organized way to evaluate the ideas you have generated. Charles "Chic" Thompson, in his excellent book, What a Great Idea! Key Steps Creative People Take, suggests this valuable list of evaluation idea questions.
Failure is the Mother of Innovation
The organization that implements lots of ideas will most likely have many failures but the chances are, it will reap some mighty successes too. By trying numerous initiatives we improve our chances that one of them will be a star, according to author Paul Sloane.