Is there a wrong way to innovate?
There are indeed pitfalls, trapdoors and "worst practices" associated with innovation.
2 frameworks for linking innovation and strategy
Describes a method for tying innovation efforts to the strategic framework of the firm
Learning about innovation from a bunch of kids
Sometimes the approaches used by kids to solve problems can provide a good model for all of us to follow.
The importance of linking strategy with innovation
The importance of integrating strategy and innovation processes.
How to Recognize Six Systemic Failures of Innovation
There are six potential types of failure within innovation systems. Are all of yours healthy?
To generate ideas, make time to “Dream, Dream, Dream”
Ideas are what drive innovation, but if you don't exercise your dreaming ability, you won't generate those ideas.
5 techniques for tapping team creativity
Everyone has heard of "writers block," but what happens when creative blocks impede individual efforts and innovation work in organizations? Many of the strategies that apply to individuals can also be applied to group and organizational situations. Here are five ways that Geoff Brennan recommends to harness creativity and break your team's creative blocks.
Articulating the value of your innovation
Now that you've created that next great thing, how do you convince your customers that it really is as great as you think it is?
Rethinking the role of HR as the Catalyst for Sustainable Innovation
With many companies downsizing, rightsizing and reorganizing lately, human resources is about as popular as bird flu these days. But savvy companies have a real opportunity to rethink the role of HR - into the engine that drives the cultural changes needed to achieve sustainable innovation, according to Rowan Gibson.
Peter Drucker on the essentials of innovation
While many articles, white papers and books have been written lately about innovation, Peter Drucker seems to have nailed it decades ago.
Six ways to make top executives understand innovation
It is a major challenge for an innovation leader to operate in an environment where the top executives don
Rapid Prototyping Technologies Enhance Innovation Opportunities
Rapid prototyping technologies enable innovative companies to quickly and inexpensively develop rough prototypes of new products and components - which can help them to nurture an innovative design through multiple iterations and bring the final product to market faster. As such, it represents a potentially potent innovation edge.
Purpose-Driven Innovation: The Key to Soliciting High-Quality Employee Ideas
You have doubtless visited a hotel or restaurant or other service business where a small box invited you to offer suggestions on "how can we better serve you?" Very likely, you never bothered to make a suggestion because, like most people, you sincerely doubted anything would happen to your suggestion. Indeed, I often wondered if such boxes were ever emptied and suggestions read! In other words, you probably didn't make the effort to offer a suggestion because there seemed to be no purpose to doing so.
Innovation strategy: Fight the fear of change
People are naturally apprehensive about change, especially in successful firms. But even successful companies are at risk if they stand still. Paul Sloane explains why it
Innovation: Waiting for the world to catch up
If companies give innovation the thumbs-down now, exactly how and when do they intend to renew their offerings
Tom Kelly explains how to cultivate personal innovation for life
Thanks to my friends on Twitter, I recently came across an excellent series of video clips from a lecture by Tom Kelly of Ideo to a class of college students at Stanford, in which he shares five essential strategies for cultivating and nurturing personal innovation throughout life.
10 innovation lessons from The Economist magazine’s Project Red Stripe
Author Andrew Carey shares with us the inside story of an innovation initiative at The Economist magazine that experienced a mixed bag of success and failure - and learned much in the process.
Unleash your creativity with random word stimulation
Random word stimulation is a powerful technique that provides a flexible, easy-to-use, self-guided method of generating new ideas by directly stimulating the brain
Innovation management: How to prioritize, filter and plan ideas
Once you have set up an integrated innovation framework and trained your employees in innovation tools and processes, they're going to generate a lot of ideas. What are you going to do with them? If you don't have a prioritization or "screening" process, you run the risk of being overloaded by poor quality ideas which may "jam" up your idea management system. Having a business-focused, structured prioritization process is central to the successful implementation of an integrated innovation framework within any business.
Be Careful: Downsizing your Workforce Downsizes Innovation, Too
There are two key reasons why downsizing is bad for innovation. Neither is immediately obvious, explains Jeffrey Baumgartner in this must-read article.
The impressionist’s approach to business creativity
Lessons on the competitive advantages of creativity can be seen from Google to Monet. Author Chad Cooper takes a scientific approach to how knowledge and experiences fuel creativity.
How to Generate Powerful Ideas by Thinking Laterally
What is lateral thinking and how can you utilize it to generate great ideas? Paul Sloane provides us with an informative overview.
Innovation strategy: What business are we in?
What is it that your business really sells? What is the true value that customers get from your products or services? When you know the answers to these questions you can start to conceive new ways to provide that value. It is the starting point for real innovation, according to Paul Sloane.
How do you Measure Innovation Results and Outcomes?
The sixth major issue to be tackled by our distinguished panel of innovation practitioners is the all-import issue of metrics: How do you measure innovation results and outcomes and motivate the organization to deliver across all stages of the process, and what are the best metrics for measuring innovation performance?