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LANGDON MORRIS

Langdon Morris, author of Foresight and Extreme Creativity has led the innovation consulting practice of InnovationLabs LLC since 2001, where he is a senior partner and co-founder. He is also a partner of FutureLab Consulting. He is recognized as one the world’s leading thinkers and consultants on innovation, and his original and ground-breaking work has been adopted by corporations and universities on every continent to help them improve their innovation processes and the results they achieve. His recent works Agile Innovation, The Innovation Master Plan and Permanent Innovation are recognized as three of the leading innovation books of the last 5 years.

Innovation in the SME and Entrepreneurial Context

Innovation is as important for small business as for large ones, but most of the books and other writings available focus on the big firms. In his new book The Innovation Formula, Langdon Morris provides insights for the small business leader or entrepreneur about how to be fantastically successful at innovation even with very limited time and capital to invest.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:15-07:00April 21st, 2015|Categories: Strategies, Support for SMEs, The Innovation Formula|Tags: Change Management, entrepreneur, mind mapping, risk management, serialized book, SME, the innovation formula book|

Translating Unseen Needs into Innovations

The world is changing, yet people constantly assume, incorrectly, that tomorrow will be like yesterday. When business leaders make this mistake, the outcomes are generally bad because opportunities are lost. Competitive advantage is gained with the ability to transform insights into useful innovations by seeing the unseen. In this chapter excerpt of Agile Innovation, Langdon Morris explains how ethnography drives better innovation at a top-five U.S. financial services company.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:23-07:00February 5th, 2015|Categories: Agile Innovation, Leadership|Tags: agile innovation, agile project management, banking, Collaboration, education, empathy, ethnography, hidden needs, Innovation Culture, motivation, soft skills, Teamwork, training, unmet needs, Wells Fargo|

Transforming How We Work

The essence of agility is the ability to respond to new and different conditions. You cannot continue repeating the same old operating formula long beyond its utility or you will be left behind. Are you prepared to adapt to the profuse variety of new circumstances with new tactics and strategies? The principles of Agile that we examine in the next three chapter excerpts of Agile Innovation will help you understand what you need to do.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:24-07:00February 2nd, 2015|Categories: Agile Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: agile innovation, agile innovation book, brainstorm, Change Management, co-creation, culture, design thinking, disruptive innovation, education, ethnography, Ideation, Innovation Culture, Intel, Product Development, R&D, serialized book, Teamwork, training, unmet needs|

Adaptability and Collaboration for Sustainable Business Growth

The four simple axioms in the “The Manifesto for Agile Software Development” express the core values for getting work done efficiently. In the last chapter excerpt of Agile Innovation we looked at individuals and interactions as well how to create a rapid working prototype. Today we’ll continue discussing the next elements: collaboration and carrying out change in a corporate setting.

Ideascale2021-12-06T07:48:03-08:00January 29th, 2015|Categories: Agile Innovation|Tags: agile innovation, agile innovation book, Change Management, co-creation, Collaboration, Competition, culture, education, ethnography, Ideation, innovation, Innovation Culture, serialized book, Teamwork, training|

Becoming Agile Rapidly and Painlessly

To take advantage of today’s and tomorrow’s unique opportunities, and to rise above the intense existential challenges your firm will face in the months and years ahead, it will be supremely helpful and confer enormous advantages if your operations embody the Agile essence: quick, responsive, dynamic, innovative. You’ve got to learn to recognize opportunities and to act on them faster than your competitors do. In this chapter excerpt of Agile Innovation Langdon Morris explores what Agile means in detail, with a focus on the roots of the Agile movement and its many insights and implications for today’s organizations.

Ideascale2021-12-06T07:47:58-08:00January 26th, 2015|Categories: Agile Innovation|Tags: agile innovation, agile innovation book, Change Management, Competition, Failure, serialized book, software|

The Secret Sauce of Innovation

Could it be that today’s pervasive bad news, the news that causes everyone else to moan and complain—the economic malaise, the chaos that the digital revolution created, the impacts of outsourcing, political instability, global competition—can offer amazing opportunities to out- distance your competition? In this second chapter excerpt from the new book, Agile Innovation, Langdon Morris explores innovation-under-duress.

Ideascale2021-12-06T07:47:58-08:00January 22nd, 2015|Categories: Agile Innovation, Leadership|Tags: agile innovation, agile innovation book, challenge, challenge driven innovation, Change Management, Competition, crisis, economy, emerging technologies, Failure, lean, risk management, serialized book, Southwest Airlines|

Starting at Sprint Zero: A Better Way to Innovate

How is Agile changing the world? Let’s begin with a bit of background. If you are new to Agile Software technique, then the term sprint zero, as used in the title of this chapter, may not mean much to you, but for Agile practitioners it means the initial phase of work where you sort the project out to make sure you start properly when you’re about to tackle a large programming endeavor.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:27-07:00January 19th, 2015|Categories: Agile Innovation|Tags: agile innovation, agile innovation book, Change Management, Competition, Failure, innovation, IT, serialized book, software, sprint zero|

Agile Innovation: The Revolutionary Approach to Accelerate Success, Inspire Engagement, and Ignite Creativity

Charles Darwin said it quite well: “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” Innovation, collaboration, and improvisation are indeed essential forces shaping all of business and all of modern life, and they’ve become vitally important for the individual, the organization, and indeed for all of society.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:21:27-07:00January 12th, 2015|Categories: Agile Innovation, Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Strategies|Tags: agile innovation, agile innovation book, agile project management, Change Management, Collaboration, innovation portfolio, portfolio management, risk management, serialized book, speed of innovation|

Mastering the Innovation Process

The innovation system described in The Innovation Master Plan provides a comprehensive approach to a difficult, challenging, and significant problem for organizations, the problem of how to manage innovation in the face of excruciating change.

Ideascale2021-12-05T17:29:03-08:00September 13th, 2013|Categories: Serialized Book, Strategies, The Innovation Master Plan|Tags: Change Management, innovation life cycle processes, process innovation, serialized book, The Innovation Master Plan, the innovation master plan book|

The Creative Process

There is one aspect of the creativity that is not often discussed in the vast literature, but it’s essential to achieving consistent creative results. This is a detailed understanding of the creative process itself.

Ideascale2021-12-05T17:26:14-08:00August 29th, 2013|Categories: Serialized Book, The Innovation Master Plan|Tags: Creativity, serialized book, The Innovation Master Plan, the innovation master plan book|

Who Innovates: Creating the Innovation Culture with Geniuses, Leaders & Champions

Organizations that are successful at innovation naturally develop a strong innovation culture. But supposing an innovation culture doesn’t yet exist in your organization. Then how can you develop it?

Ideascale2021-12-05T17:22:45-08:00August 22nd, 2013|Categories: Leadership, Serialized Book, The Innovation Master Plan|Tags: innovation champions, Innovation Culture, serialized book, The Innovation Master Plan, the innovation master plan book|

How to Measure the Innovation Process and its Results

There are dozens of different metrics that you can apply to the innovation process. In this excerpt from The Innovation Master Plan, we look at the 12 that are useful to most organizations, as well as the entire set of 92 metrics.

Ideascale2021-12-05T17:22:38-08:00August 15th, 2013|Categories: Serialized Book, The Innovation Master Plan|Tags: measure innovation, serialized book, The Innovation Master Plan, the innovation master plan book|

How to Innovate: The Innovation Process

Many people assume that creating new ideas is the beginning of the innovation process, but actually that’s not true. Ideation occurs in the middle of the disciplined innovation process, which we present in this chapter.

Ideascale2021-12-05T17:22:26-08:00August 8th, 2013|Categories: Serialized Book, The Innovation Master Plan|Tags: funnel, innovation portfolio, innovation process, metrics, portfolio management, research, serialized book, strategy, The Innovation Master Plan, the innovation master plan book|

Taking Action: The Ideal Innovation Portfolio

To design the ideal innovation portfolio you begin with the strategic perspective to design the right portfolio. In this article we present the disciplined, 8 step process for portfolio management.

Ideascale2021-12-05T17:22:24-08:00August 1st, 2013|Categories: Serialized Book, The Innovation Master Plan|Tags: serialized book, The Innovation Master Plan, the innovation master plan book|

What to Innovate: Creating and Managing Innovation Portfolios

Investors in all types of assets create portfolios to help them attain optimal returns while choosing the right level of risk, and innovation managers must do the same for the projects they’re working on.

Ideascale2021-12-05T17:17:23-08:00July 24th, 2013|Categories: Serialized Book, The Innovation Master Plan|Tags: serialized book, The Innovation Master Plan, the innovation master plan book|