Innovation

In the Quest for Innovation, Are Customers an Obstacle?

The Web offers designers and innovators an unprecedented and powerful mechanism to test their ideas. They can mock something up, put it online, and get immediate feedback. The approach may be the ultimate experiment in letting users collectively design products. But experts say... [Read more...]

Initiate

Don’t Be Afraid to Start Innovation

Are you still talking about innovation, but not acting to make it happen? It is striking to look at the large number of companies in which the volume of chatter about being bold and innovative is in stark contrast to the deafening silence of their actual achievements in building... [Read more...]

Evaluate

Creating & Sustaining Innovation

The best way to assess the status quo in creating and sustaining innovation is to do a self guided Innovation Evaluation. The evaluation or audit will have you answer a series of questions and provide you an immediate image of your strength and potential weaknesses in creating... [Read more...]

Improve

Improve Innovation Efforts

Evaluate, improve, deliver… Once the evaluation or audit is done, and it has become clear what strengths and weaknesses there are in the current innovation efforts, it is time to improve the current efforts. No matter whether you are a skilled and experienced innovator or... [Read more...]

Deliver

Deliver Innovation

Once assessed against the 10 imperatives on how to create and sustain innovation and incremental or major improvements have been made or are underway it is time to deliver your next new product or service. Remember to approach innovation in an holistic or “total innovation”... [Read more...]