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 »
Innovation Evolution
