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JIM CLEMMER

Jim Clemmer is a bestselling author and internationally acclaimed keynote speaker, workshop/retreat leader, and management team developer on leadership, change, customer focus, culture, teams, and personal growth. During the last 25 years he has delivered over two thousand customized keynote presentations, workshops, and retreats. Jim’s five international bestselling books include The VIP Strategy, Firing on All Cylinders, Pathways to Performance, Growing the Distance, and The Leader’s Digest. His web site is www.clemmer.net.

Don’t let Market Research Myopia Distract you from Innovation

Customer and market research, competitive benchmarking, and focusing on market share could be detrimental to your organization's future performance. These approaches are critical improvement tools. Top performing organizations have turned them into a disciplined and useful science. But they can also lead to "me-too" followership or - even worse - commodity products and services that compete only on price.

Ideascale2021-12-02T18:02:44-08:00January 9th, 2012|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: business development teams, competitive benchmarking, consumer insights, creative, customer, customer engagement, customer research, empathic innovation, ethnography, focus group, hands on, innovation, management systems, market appeal, market intelligence, market research, market share, market understanding, network, organization competencies, patterns, planning sessions, Problem Solving, Product Development, tools, what if|

35 Ways to Cultivate Innovation and Organizational Learning

Innovation and organizational learning are inextricably connected. A company must learn from its mistakes and cultivate multiple pathways for recognizing and leveraging the best ideas effectively, whether those ideas come from inside or outside of the organization, says Jim Clemmer. Here are 35 ways to sharpen your organizational "innovation radar," to accelerate learning cycles and recognize and capitalize on opportunities faster.

How Strategic Planning Smothers Innovation: One Organization’s Story

The story of a once-innovative financial services firm illustrates the perils of substituting 'messy' innovation with a logical, orderly strategic planning process.

Ideascale2021-12-02T16:24:32-08:00October 26th, 2011|Categories: Front End of Innovation, Leadership, Organization & Culture, Report, Strategies|Tags: action planning, case study, enterprise innovation, entrepreneurial, finance, innovation planning, interactive, leadership, logical hindsight, management effectiveness, management systems, opportunistic, product leadership, strategic opportunism, strategic planning, strategy formulation, Technology, technomanagers|

A process for continuous innovation and controlled chaos

Continuous innovation stream comes from controlled chaos. According to Jim Clemmer, it's a tricky process that has four main stages.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-11-29T13:37:48-08:00February 22nd, 2008|Categories: Life Cycle Processes|Tags: chaos, continuous innovation, Innovation Management, innovation process|

Harnessing the energy of change champions

The most successful change and innovation efforts are often accomplished by a change champion, a 'mono-maniac with a mission,' according to Jim Clemmer. Here are some strategies that will help you to support your organization's change champions.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-11-29T10:13:07-08:00May 16th, 2007|Categories: Innovation Psychology|Tags: change champion, Change Management, innovation champion|

A process for continuous innovation is built on a service ethic

New products and services can be "knocked off" or copied. But it's much harder for competitors to duplicate a management system and corporate culture that produces a continuous stream of successful product and service improvements, innovations, adaptations and extensions. That continuous innovation stream comes from controlled chaos, which can be achieved through a four-stage process, according to Jim Clemmer.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-11-29T10:00:41-08:00November 28th, 2006|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: continuous innovation, ethics, experimentation, Product Development|

Customer Intimacy and Empathy are Keys to Innovation

Just because a company is spending money on research (such as markets, customers, or new technologies) and development doesn't mean they will get innovation. Innovation, as with advertising, training, or many other organization investments, depends on the quality of the investment as much as the quantity of resources put in it. A high proportion of innovative new products, services, and companies flop. That's often because managers build better mousetraps without first making sure there are any mice out there. Or that people still want to catch them.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-11-29T08:19:26-08:00August 16th, 2006|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Communication, customer engagement, empathy, ethnography, soft skills|

Innovation and Learning through Successful Failures

One key to successful innovation is to learn quickly from failure, according to author Jim Clemmer.

Sarah Vandenberg2021-11-29T08:18:22-08:00July 12th, 2006|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: Failure, lessons learned, Success|