Innovation Excellence

MAY 7, 2020

With Mother’s day around the corner and a lot of us moms in lockdown (some wondering if we will even get our annual token lunch) we could all use some innovation hacks to cope with boredom, homeschooling and the compulsions of career transitions. Now, I am classically six sigma certified and innovation trained. 3) Too many choices.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

ABC Corp has a vision to become a more innovative company. The outcome of a key change initiative is to add more innovative products to its portfolio. For ABC Corp, the initiative will focus mainly on the new product development process, especially the idea generation phase. And, some may need to communicate differently.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

Is your business struggling to come up with a new idea or innovation to solve the latest industry challenge? 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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

How do Google, Facebook and IDEO jumpstart the process that leads to innovation? It's not complicated: The "how might we" approach to innovation ensures that would-be innovators are asking the right questions and using the best wording. Often by using the same three words: How Might We. or completely re-imagine Y.

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Innovation Creativity Cooper Idea Generation 22

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

These days, you're as likely to see "innovative" on any given job description as you are to see "strong communication skills" or "team player." But how do you hire innovators ? What exactly are you looking for , and more importantly, how do you identify the ability to innovate ?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2011

That's the number of invention methodologies my colleagues and I have perused in the course of assembling what we call The World Database of Innovation. In our daily lives, moreover, we can see a very persuasive natural experiment playing out in the realm of marketing communications and advertising.

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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

JULY 20, 2018

Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In the Economist review of our book, The Innovator's DNA , the reviewer wondered whether genius-level innovators such as Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs challenge the idea that working adults can really learn how to think differently and become innovators. Innovators excel at connecting the unconnected.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Richard Haasnoot presents another in a series of articles about how you can consistently generate at least 12 X more ideas than brainstorming Continue reading →

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Brainstorming Power Article Idea Generation 56

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

While I thought many of the ideas were legitimately interesting, after a few hours of working together, a nagging concern began to creep in: that the team hadn't quite formulated what question it was seeking to answer. It's natural for people pursuing innovation to jump into idea-generation mode.

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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. Feed Your Employees'' Minds and Bodies Innovation Excellence. Stock ownership among U.S.

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Advertising Idea Generation Innovation Diversity 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2015

Many companies today rely on content marketing and native advertising to gain visibility for their brand — after all, 70% of people say they’d rather learn about products through content rather than through traditional advertising. But is either content marketing or native advertising a surefire way to boost brand awareness?

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 8, 2010

Fear is one of the biggest impediments to idea generation. If someone fears that their suggestions will be summarily shot down in nearly every instance, that person will simply stop trying. A leader must be trusted with the ideas and dreams of their teammates, no matter how “off the wall&# they may be.

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Leadership Idea Generation Open-book BHAG 283

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In 2016, former American Express CEO Ken Chenault tasked chief human resource officer Kevin Cox with finding new opportunities that would drive innovation and revenue growth. They convened the program’s top 75 performers — many still fresh out of business school — for a three-day stint of idea generation and problem solving.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 24, 2020

They master challenges with a characteristic approach, and echo the habits of renowned innovators and entrepreneurs. Step One: Start with the idea generators 1. T he Outsider: This is person who finds novel opportunities in industries and markets you might not normally target. How do we know? Defy the experts.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. Here are just three lessons from our management innovators about leveraging social technologies to create truly social organizations: Trust your people with the future of the company. We announced the winners of the Management 2.0

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Management How To Open-book Bureaucracy 9

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

All day long, the power of bad governs people’s moods, drives marketing campaigns, and dominates news and politics. Creative Construction : The DNA of Sustained Innovation by Gary P. Blog Post ). * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. There's a better way. Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

When a company has a clear strategy for a new product launch, for example, a leader needs to provide firm directives to get the marketing, distribution, and sales people working together and moving in one direction. This creates a safe environment where team members feel respected and free to innovate and generate creative solutions.

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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. When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose. A New Name for an Old Method.

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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

Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 8, 2023

One of my favorite things to say in an idea-generation meeting is, “ Let’s invent now. Apparently, it takes time for innovation to ultimately find it’s true destination. Penicillin was invented in 1928, but didn’t arrive on the market for mass use until 1945. Hopefully you get the idea. I love that.

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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." Most Job Seekers Searchable Online.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

Some of the other initiatives revolve around work-life flexibility, recruiting veteran talent and building a more diverse talent pipeline – all of which support the company’s long-term growth and innovation. How do you measure the value these D&I programs bring to the company? People are at the core of this strategy.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

But for the masterminds behind these great ideas, the risk paid off and so too can your next great idea. Take two ideas and put them together to make one new idea. Think beyond the obvious connections to come up with something truly innovative. After all, what is a Snuggie but the mutation of a blanket and a robe?

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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. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

This dangerous obstacle to innovation is described by Nilofer Merchant in The New How as “the empty void in an organization between the high-level strategy conjured up in the stratosphere and the realization of that vision down on the ground.”. This is a fairly typical profile of innovation capability within a large firm.

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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

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen (which is also on John Coleman's list) builds on the notion of a growth mindset more specifically within a business context. Whether disruptive innovation involves a product, service, company, or especially, an individual, Christensen provides a robust theory for learning how to lead.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. But innovation is an elusive beast. We can look to companies renowned for innovation — like Apple and Google — and try to learn from them. So what to do? But that's a flawed approach.

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