The Innovative Leader: How to Inspire Your Team and Drive Creativity
May 27, 2009
Author: Paul Sloane Date Published: 7/28/2007 Price: $12.21 Random Page from the Book Editorial Review Consumer Review Summary Description: The Innovative Leader is written to address, in a practical way, the questions of innovation that managers face: How can managers transform employees from cubicle dwellers into innovation warriors? Where can the ideas come from to fuel the supply of innovation? How does one find the time and resources to try new ideas? Sloane stresses the competitive advantage... Read more »
In the Quest for Innovation, Are Customers an Obstacle?
May 22, 2009
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 this crowd-sourcing approach has limitations and downsides. Continue reading “In the Quest for Innovation, Are Customers an Obstacle?” » Read More →
Don’t Be Afraid to Start Innovation
May 22, 2009
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 innovation as a value driving core competence. Why is rhetoric-performance gap so large? Continue reading “Don’t Be Afraid to Start Innovation” » Read More →
Creating & Sustaining Innovation
May 22, 2009
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 and sustaining innovation based on the ten imperatives of “Robert’s Rules of Innovation“. Choose between the Short or In-Depth evaluation. Once complete you can assess corrective actions, look for tips, find out best... Read more »
Improve Innovation Efforts
May 22, 2009
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 a new beginner, there is always room for improvement. Understanding your strengths and weaknesses as it relates to the 10 imperatives of Robert’s rules of innovation enables you to study tips, best practices and next practices for... Read more »
Deliver Innovation
May 22, 2009
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” like way and look at innovation and especially ideation as broadly as possible from process innovation to product innovation. Organize ideation in a regular and structured format for regular and consistent input. Keep the funnel... Read more »
Table Top Foamer
May 21, 2009
The foaming hand soap, which the Airspray Table Top Foamer creates, was hailed by one of the early users as ‘the greatest innovation in the soap market since the advent of liquid soap’. Continue reading “Table Top Foamer” » Read More →
Open Innovation: Why mindset matters most
May 21, 2009
Author: Stefan Lindegaard Date Published: May 2009 Many of you have brought up the subject of trust in our interactions on open innovation. I agree that trust is an essential component on open innovation. It also comes at many levels – internally as well as externally. Continue reading “Open Innovation: Why mindset matters most” » Read More →
Dyson Rollerball
May 21, 2009
Dyson says that its intriguing new sucker is the most manoeuvrable upright vacuum ever made. A ballsy claim…Dyson has revealed The Ball. This strange looking dirt-swallower rolls around on a big plastic ball, equipping the upright vacuum with some seriously slinky moves – it can whip round tight corners and snake through spaces with the mere flick of the wrist. We’ve yet to test-drive The Ball, but considering that your average upright usually requires a ten-point-turn to change direction,... Read more »
Terrafugia, The Flying Car
May 21, 2009
The start-up Terrafugia first popped up on our radar screens in early 2006 with a one-fifth scale model, $30,000 in prize money, and an urge to build a car that could fly. Or is that an airplane you can take on the highway? Some signs point strongly to the latter. Terrafugia describes its Transition vehicle as a “roadable aircraft” and is pitching it in part as giving private pilots an easy travel alternative when bad weather makes flying a bad idea, or simply to avoid having to take a separate... Read more »
Innovation Evolution
