The Real Recipe for Innovation
September 30, 2010
by Holly G. Green When I talk to business leaders, I always ask about the most difficult challenges they face day in and day out. Increasingly, I’m hearing about how hard it is to innovate on ... Read More →
The Core Challenge in Managing Innovation
September 30, 2010
by Tim Kastelle A consistent point of controversy is whether or not innovation can be managed. If you think of innovation only as generating new, novel ideas, then it is very difficult to see how this ... Read More →
A Strategy for Bringing Customers Into Every Meeting
September 30, 2010
by Mike Brown What’s your strategy for starting meetings? Here’s an innovative variation on the standard strategy of starting a meeting by re-stating an objective to ensure everyone present understands why they NEED to be present. One ... Read More →
Don’t Use the Same Network for Every Stage of Innovation
September 30, 2010
by John Steen Tim and I have recently edited a network focused issue of a journal called Innovation: Management, Policy and Practice. The really pleasing outcome from the submissions was the wide variety of applications that ... Read More →
Leveraging Fear and Failure
September 29, 2010
by Mike Myatt “Fear” and “Failure” are NOT dirty words, but you’ll find most leaders treat them as such. They go out of their way to hide their fears and explain away their failures rather than ... Read More →
Prospective Innovation
September 29, 2010
by Drew Boyd People can improve the quality, originality, and elegance of ideas by extensively forecasting the implication of those ideas during the generation phase. Researchers from The University of Oklahoma studied the effect of ... Read More →
The Value of Nothing
September 29, 2010
by Mitch Ditkoff 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 baseball player ... Read More →
What is an Innovation Culture?
September 29, 2010
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 might think. To ... Read More →
What is Open Innovation? Crowdsourcing? User Innovation? Co-Creation?
September 28, 2010
by Stefan Lindegaard Many people ask what open innovation is. I suggest that you should view open innovation as a philosophy or a mindset that you should embrace within your organization. In a more practical definition, ... Read More →
Healthy Innovation at Work
September 28, 2010
The Power of the Unconference by Jeff Benabio, M.D. If you want to witness the power of innovation, I recommend you check out a user-generated or Open Space unconference. I recently attended my first – HealthCamp ... Read More →
