You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

John Cage once said, “ I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. This notion kind of struck me while I was watching a movie about Charles Darwin who had, and developed, one of the world’s biggest ideas, one that, even now, creates much spirited conversation. I’m frightened of the old ones”.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

For example, Amazon , a company with about $75 billion in annual revenue and a $140 billion market value, relies on metrics like continually rooting out inefficiencies and, with a few well-known peculiarities like "desks with repurposed doors," underights cost effectiveness and abhors “social cohesion."

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

If you’re not too proud to admit defeat and seek inspiration and ideas from elsewhere, you might find that crowdsourcing is a breakthrough concept that can help you to break new ground and potentially disrupt a market. A cash sum was offered as an incentive. Retain a firm handle on your overheads.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The culture of "big" — big budgets, big campaigns, big reports — has driven marketing decisions and budgets for decades. In an age when consumers decide within seconds whether or not to abandon a web site, big marketers need to act more like agile startups, maneuvering and adapting in real-time.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 7, 2020

Let’s start with my experience: We decided to follow agile principles in our quest to implement an autonomous ‘idea generation’ process to fight boredom and channelize extraneous energy. Rather than run it through a market sizing exercise and then moving up to cluster mapping, we just ran the latter.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Business development. Adjustments must be periodically made to target markets, definition of terms and modification of strategies. Doing the things necessary to assure revenue (billings, sales, add-on’s, marketing). Readily measurable values: Time and cost of product development-service delivery cycles.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The culture of "big" — big budgets, big campaigns, big reports — has driven marketing decisions and budgets for decades. In an age when consumers decide within seconds whether or not to abandon a web site, big marketers need to act more like agile startups, maneuvering and adapting in real-time.

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Marketing Metrics Budgeting Agility 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Our past research highlights the promise of this trend: In the case of a major baby products firm, for example, the best user-generated ideas identified were even more innovative and provided better benefits to the consumer than the best ideas generated by the firm’s designers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2011

In our daily lives, moreover, we can see a very persuasive natural experiment playing out in the realm of marketing communications and advertising. Strapped for cash in an era of marketing budget cuts, they make innovative use of new — and cheaper — media. A Forever21 billboard now reaches out and grabs you.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

That's a topic, not a big idea. Once you've spelled out your big idea, generate lots of supporting material to give yourself more to choose from when it's time to pick your best stuff. Though they're important principles in the world of product development, they'd be a distraction in this particular talk.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

For example, we'll ask candidates to develop an innovation strategy for the CEO of a major beverage company, synthesizing insights from the market conditions outlined in a beverage industry trend report (which we provide). The offering should at once communicate the candidate's individuality and appeal to a broader market.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

I recently spent a couple days inside a large financial services company with a team that had been tasked with developing disruptive ideas. The team had been together for three weeks and had already come up with dozens of ideas. It's natural for people pursuing innovation to jump into idea-generation mode.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

In the early-1970s, the company's marketers were working themselves into a lather as they tried to compete with Colgate-Palmolive's popular new soap product, Irish Spring, which featured a green stripe and an appealing "refreshment" promise. It's not taught in MBA programs."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

At Apple (or at any innovative company), they take a little bit of this, sprinkle in a little bit of that and that and that to churn out market-busting ideas such as iTunes, and the iPod, iPhone, and iPad (along with a few market disasters like the G4 Cube computer). Shake it up.

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How To Creativity Innovation Disruptive Innovation 20

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Drawing on our findings, we have developed a framework that breaks the Corporate Innovation Unit’s (CIU) role into seven distinct tasks. The central Support Unit is typically a low budget, low staff corporate function in charge of developing guidelines and procedures to govern the innovation funnel (i.e.

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Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

Immigrants were responsible for significant innovation in the manicure business: They developed the idea of the stand-alone, inexpensive nail salon, which stimulated demand, which led to wage increases, which led to further economic growth. Idea generation will improve as people problem-solve together at meals.

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Advertising Idea Generation Innovation Diversity 15

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I have had more than a few engagements that have come about as a result of the need to repair the carnage and devastation that occurred from the implementation of advice put forth, or the ideas generated by a well intentioned yet unqualified “coach”.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

To become a complete man or woman, each must develop both sides of the psyche. He lays out the theory that has changed the way we think about innovation: disrupters enter the market with low-end or new market innovations and eventually upend an industry. You'll want to initially focus on reading about your own strength.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

That's a topic, not a big idea. Once you've spelled out your big idea, generate lots of supporting material to give yourself more to choose from when it's time to pick your best stuff. Though they're important principles in the world of product development, they'd be a distraction in this particular talk.

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Audience Brainstorming Sharpe Software 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

They have responded to these changes in their competitive environment and have started to position themselves as the most innovative firm in their market. Merchant’s argument is that the best way around this is to develop systems that allow strategy to be created collaboratively. And yet the potential rewards are also significant.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

These forces not only rob employees of time to concentrate on completing complex tasks or for idea generation, they also crunch the downtime that is necessary for restoration. His company’s product is now marketed as Microsoft Workplace Analytics and provides one way to estimate how employee time is spent.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Over the last few years, its big new product lines — including a healthy Veg Pot and its This Water line — have both come from ideas conceived and developed by mid-level employees. None of them involve idea-generation schemes. Rather, they are all about translating ideas into action.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

In his story about software company Rite Solutions' innovation engine, a stock market-like forum for new ideas and collaborative platform for channeling development effort around the best, Lavoie suggests that it's not technology but first principles that make every person feel relevant and fully invested in the future of the company.

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Management How To Open-book Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Some examples: how many employees have been trained in “lean startup” methodology, or how many new product ideas are currently being researched. Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. Number of ideas generated.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

You are going to hear Robin Wilson speaking about foursquare and how Buffalo can utilize this amazing marketing tool to direct traffic to your business! Speaking about When Ideas have sex. image by by je@n Related posts: Stop Marketing & Start Sharing: Social Media Workshop When Ideas Have Sex, What do the babies look like?

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Design by 12GrainStudio When Ideas Have Sex, What do the babies look like? Monday, November 22nd, 2010 Posted by: mike Honored to be part of The Wilson Edge ’s Marketing for the 21st Century Un-Book Tour. Below is the power point of my talk; When Ideas Have Sex, What Do The Babies Look Like? Give Ideas P.R.O.PS…A

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Team Building Idea Generation Learning-by-Doing Creativity 94

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. ” is not always evident. Recommendations.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. Then, both approaches move toward developing a theory about how to solve the problem or design challenge.

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