Today’s business world is buzzing with talk about innovators and innovation. While it’s a good thing that innovation is on the forefront of people’s minds, popular thinking about innovation and the culture of innovation in business is often substantially misguided. There are widespread myths about innovation and innovators that lead to significant misconceptions and can ultimately even hinder or destroy ...
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Aligning Generation X, Y, and Flux for Innovation Implementation in 2015
2015 how can you best create an eco-system that allows today’s talent to flourish among Gen X, Gen Y and Gen Flux?
Read More »Innovate With Purpose – Idea Prioritization
Ideation and idea management pack the front end of the New Product Development (NPD) funnel with a wealth of viable concepts. One of the toughest processes in innovation is idea prioritization. Idea prioritization is about how you invest your company’s product development resources.
Read More »Swedish Electrolux Moves from Capital-intense to Talent-intense
Innovation should not be just R&D’s responsibility; all should be involved from customer, to sales, finance, customer service and operations.
Read More »Reframing Innovation Strategy
Innovation “strategy” is no longer king. In today’s business world, uncertainty is virtually inescapable. It goes without saying that without risk, there can be no innovation. Today’s climate requires that business leaders and innovation champions reframe how they approach innovation.
Read More »The Sharp Edge of Innovation
Running out of Blades...What do you think this means for Gillette in the long run? Have they given up on creating the next big thing in shaving? Are they at a dead end? Or are they simply evolving as a company?
Read More »Risk, Observation, and Measurement for the World’s Most Innovative Companies
Latest 50 Most Innovative Companies, but are they looking at Leading indicators?
Read More »8 Step Process Perfects New Product Development
A Stage Gate Process is a must as part of successful Innovation, here are 8 steps to refine and perfect the process.
Read More »If Ideas are the Seeds of Innovation…
Whichever form your ideas take, how you manage them dictates the outcome of each endeavor. Frequent and intelligently facilitated ideation sessions lead to successful new products… and the much sought after AHA! or Eureka! moment.
Read More »What Drives Innovation and Who Owns It?
Ownership key to Innovation Implementation and success, it's an imperative of Innovation. Most would agree that innovation is everyone’s responsibility, but employees can’t innovate unless their leaders empower them to do so.
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