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Innovation Failure Points – Strangled in the Crib
Submitted by Blogging Innovation by Jeffrey Phillips Innovation Failure Points - Strangled in the CribI am going to start a multi-part post today thinking about innovation’s failure points. Too often...
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Rethinking the Role of a Manager
Your willingness to sit up and take notice needs to be just as strong as if a customer were to call and complain. If possible, drop what you’re doing, focus all of your attention on the idea generator,...
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Accountability – The Foundation of Sustainable Innovation
by Robert F. Brands with Jeff Zbar Accountability - The Foundation of Sustainable InnovationWithout accountability, there is no innovation. Action items won’t get done, programs will lose traction,...
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Is Dumb the New Smart?
by Mike Myatt Is Dumb the New Smart?How dumb is your business? At the risk of drawing the ire of corporate elitists, I submit to you that the dumber your business is, the better off you are. The truth...
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Innovation Perspectives – A Common Purpose
This is the second of several ‘Innovation Perspectives‘ articles we will publish this week from multiple authors to get different perspectives on ‘How should firms collaborate with customers and/or...
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Innovation Perspectives – Three Co-Creation Perspectives
This is the third of several ‘Innovation Perspectives‘ articles we will publish this week from multiple authors to get different perspectives on ‘How should firms collaborate with customers and/or...
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The Reason Behind the Success of Reverse Innovation
The road to reverse innovation In his article What is Reverse Innovation, Vijay Govindarajan outlines the following historical phases: 1. Globalization: companies designing and manufacturing in...
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Should the Era of Six Sigma End?
by Dr. Mike Shipulski Five percent here, three percent there. I’m tired as hell of continuous improvement. Sure there’s a place for it, but it shouldn’t be the only type of work we do. But,...
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Making the Leap to Disruptive Innovation
Does your organization struggle to innovate on a consistent basis? If so, you may want to get your customers involved. Innovative companies have always intuitively understood the importance of customer...
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The Romance of Creativity
If you are trying to bring something new into the world, know this: The creative process is very much like a relationship. And like most relationships, it usually begins with fascination — that curious...
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Seth Godin Interview (World Innovation Forum) / Article: Recommended Reading ;0)
by Braden Kelley Seth Godin Interview (World Innovation Forum)I had the opportunity to interview Seth Godin, author of “Linchpin”, “Purple Cow”, “Tribes” and nine other books, at the World Innovation...
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5-step Process for Business Transformation and Organizational Stability
During the past few weeks, I’ve spoken with many business leaders in the GCC. The topic on every one’s mind is, of course, the economy and how their business can weather the storm. Many of these...
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No Strategy – No Innovation
What kills innovation at the start, in the middle and at the end is the lack of a clearly defined, articulated and executed strategy. The reason is simple. If your firm can’t concisely define and...
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The Efficient Use of Ideas
Other “leaps” forward include the efficient use of labor (thanks Frederick Taylor) and the efficient use of capital, which has eventually brought us to the problems with financial engineering that...
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5 Signs Your Brand is in Trouble
Telling employee to not think but just act A disdain for thinking certainly runs through the other items on the list. When senior executives are telling people to not over-think and just get on with...
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Importance of Social Networks and Idea Execution
The first reason is that Darwin’s network was much, much better than Wallace’s. Darwin was friends with Hooker, Lyell and Huxley. It was Hooker and Huxley that arranged the joint presentation of...
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The Innovation Gap – Leaders versus Teams
Most large organizations are built to optimize a set of predictable processes which support and maintain a given set of products or services. Over time our management styles have migrated to the point...
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Look to Nature for a Creative Breakthrough
This is the first in a series of creative thinking techniques — simple ways you can spark new insights, ideas, and ahas. The techniques are excerpted from my award-winning book, Awake at the Wheel....
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11 Herbs and Creative Strategic Thinking
Kentucky Fried Chicken is celebrating its 70th anniversary with a promotional discount offer. A literally-oriented marketer (if they’re at least somewhat strategic), would be thinking about, “What can...
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No Child Left Creative?
Newsweek recently drew attention to the “creativity crisis” in the United States. In fact, a look at the results of E. Paul Torrance’s well-known creativity test – or “CQ test” – reveals a startling...
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Why Does the Creative Fire Have to Die?
Earlier this year I had a great idea for a web application. I mapped out potential site features, sketched out a design, and started researching how to put the thing together. I was completely immersed...
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Enhancing Creativity – Adult Games versus Kid Games
They typically have a complex set of rules that all of the players need to adhere to. If you break the rules you “go to jail,” are disqualified, or get penalized. Adult games end. The game is over when...
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Turning a Minor Innovation into a Major Innovation
John Sipe worked in an abattoir in the US in the 1920s. Like other workers there he found that he kept slipping on the wet and bloody floors. His shoes were too slippery, so he took his knife and cut...
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Three Simple Decision Making Tools
by Paul Williams We make decisions all the time. Big ones, small ones, easy and tough. Making the right choice can be obvious, and sometimes it requires time invested in thought. Luckily we have simple...
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7 Creativity Thoughts to Change Your Day
by Mike Brown Creativity scares the s#!t out of lots of authority figures! Hand them some toilet paper and keep going!!! Creative variation is more than okay. Creative variation is wondrous!!! Explain...
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50 Ways to Foster a Culture of Innovation
As your organization continues rebounding from the financial meltdown, here are 50 ways to ensure that it becomes increasingly conducive to ongoing innovation. Commit to a few of these today and make...
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Building a Marketing Strategy for Innovation Efforts
We’ve covered features, and the spectrum of innovation initiatives in our previous posts, so now let’s touch on a topic central to successful idea or innovation challenges- marketing. Properly...
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Rethinking Failure
Tried anything recently that didn’t quite work out? Congratulations! You’re on your way to a breakthrough. Bottom line, there is no innovation without “failure.” If your perception of failure is...
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Problem Solving Skills Different Than Intelligence
Professor Mylonadis suspects that the reason that our problem-solving ability in management is limited is because our models of problem-solving are devoid of people while actual problem-solving isn’t....
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Conscious Awareness
It goes on to posit that “technology is weaving humans into electronic webs that resemble big brains.” (It’s nice to see this concept going mainstream… we talked about that idea here last November in...
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Leadership and Change
First the bad news: If you’re not willing to embrace change you’re not ready to lead. Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the...
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Book Review and Innovation Summary – “Predictable Success”
A few weeks ago I received “Predictable Success” by Les McKeown in the mail. “Predictable Success” is an approachable 194 pages, and is an easy, and pleasant read. Les McKeown is the President &...
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Innovation and Porter’s Value Chain
First, let’s remind ourselves of the Value Chain Model. Portner’s insight was to identify all the primary functions of a business and all the support functions of a business and seek to understand what...
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The Value of Nothing
When children are born prematurely, they are placed in incubators until ready for the world. When fields stop producing, farmers let them lay fallow — until the soil’s nutrients are restored. When a...
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Blogging Innovation » What is an Innovation Culture?
by Roy Luebke Much has been written about what constitutes an innovation culture. Defining what that means may seem relatively simple, but is much more difficult to both define and achieve than one...
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