Engaging end users in co-creation deepens the bonds between the organization and them. The activity can deliver economic value to all parties involved. In this article innovation architect Doug Collins highlights the critical questions that campaign teams will want to address when they pursue externally focused collaboration.
Successful organizations worldwide realize how important it is to their success to nourish creativity and innovation. Innovation is, after all, the vanguard to increased competitiveness. In my years of experience in the development of innovative electronic products, innovation challenges have necessitated the gathering and practice of techniques from many arenas. Here are a few ideas that we have developed in my company. I hope that they will help you to expand and enable innovation in your organization, too.
You cannot expect your team to be innovative if they do not know the direction in which they are headed, warns Paul Sloane.
Here are five steps to help you develop your change strategy based on my work with innovation leaders and intrapreneurs.
Group brainstorming is common in organizations around the world. But more often than not, it delivers a disappointing quantity of so-so ideas. Here are eight ways to generate more and better ideas in these ideation sessions.
Setting moderate growth goals leads to incrementalism. To innovate, you need to set drastic goals that force employees to seek out new sources of revenues and to conceive new business models, according to Paul Sloane.
To what extent does an employee work – and innovate – to benefit the organization and to what extent does she work and innovate to benefit herself? Senior managers would like to believe that employees are a team of selfless workers who – in exchange for a monthly wage and odd benefits – work exclusively to the benefit of the organization. As the organization grows, the employee receives promotions, salary increases and additional benefits that encourage her to continue serving the company 100%.
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?
Can quality and creativity cohabit in the same house or are they natural enemies? Can a quality process be applied to innovation? Paul Sloane shares the answer in this insightful article.
All too often, hastily planned brainstorming sessions bring up a lot of good ideas that somehow never get used, while the boring kinds of ideas you are trying to get away from seem to be used again and again. One reason for this is the lack of an innovation plan, according to Jeffrey Baumgartner.
The brainstorming session is the most popular group creativity exercise in business. It is quick, easy and it works. But many organizations have become frustrated with them, because they say this form of ideation is old-fashioned and no longer effective. But the real reason for their frustration is that most brainstorming meetings are not facilitated properly. Read on for more details!
Goal setting can be a daunting exercise, but it doesn't have to be. Read on to learn how combining the 'SMART' model of goal-setting with mind mapping can supercharge your next goal-setting session.
The late self-help expert Earl Nightingale once explained that there are two types of people: river people and goal people. Both types of people can experience personal fulfillment and success in life -- read this article to learn how!
What traits and attitudes makes a person creative? Earl Nightingale sheds some light on the subject.
Want to supercharge your goals? Then consider mapping them out on paper, using a simple yet powerful visualization technique called a Mindscape.
