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Category Archives: Innovation Perspectives
Co-creating Future-fit Organizations
GUEST POST from Janet Sernack In our second blog in this series of three, we opened the door to a threshold for a new kind of co-creative, collaborative and cohesive team spirit that catalyzes change through “innovation evangelism”. Focusing on building both … Continue reading
Posted in Change, collaboration, Creativity, culture, Digital Transformation, education, eLearning, Innovation, Innovation Perspectives, Leadership, Open Innovation, Strategy, Training
Tagged Business Transformation, change, change leadership, change management, collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Customers, digital transformation, future, future-fit, HR, Innovation, innovation coaching, innovation teams, organizational change, Strategy, Talent, teaming innovation, Thought Leadership, training, Workshops
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Innovation Teams Do Not Innovate
Guest Post from Janet Sernack In our first blog in this series of three blogs, we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration. We then described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and … Continue reading
Posted in Change, collaboration, culture, Digital Transformation, education, Innovation, Innovation Perspectives, Leadership, Training
Tagged Business Transformation, change, change leadership, change management, change planning, collaboration, Customers, future-fit, Innovation, innovation coaching, Innovation Culture, innovation teams, organizational change, teaming innovation, Thought Leadership, training, Workshops
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Avoid the Addition Bias
Guest Post from Paul Sloane Have you noticed that almost every photo that you take with your camera or mobile phone can be improved by cropping? As we take away extraneous background details, we bring the subject into clearer view. … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation Perspectives
Tagged addition bias, crop photo, nature magazine, paul sloane, subtract
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Three Actions to Become More Innovative
‘What are three specific actions that a non-innovative company can take to become more innovative?’ Sometimes I think that people out there talking about innovation try and make crafting a good innovation process sound harder than it is and the … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Innovation Perspectives
Tagged collecting, commitment, connecting, failure, planning
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Social Media is the Glue of Innovation
Social media serves an incredibly important role in innovation. Social media functions as the glue to stick together incomplete knowledge, incomplete ideas, incomplete teams, and incomplete skillsets. Social media is not some mysterious magic box. Ultimately it is a tool … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Innovation Perspectives, Social Media
Tagged Accelerator, collaboration, communications, Engagement, Tools
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Where is your Innovation Friction?
How should firms develop the organizational structure, culture, and incentives (e.g., for teams) to encourage successful innovation? When it comes to creating an innovation culture, often people make it far too complicated. If you’re part of the senior leadership team … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Finance, Innovation, Innovation Perspectives, Management
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Trendspotting Trifecta
‘Who should be responsible (if anyone) for trend-spotting and putting emerging behaviors and needs into context for a business?’ I believe this question should really be broken up because there are three VERY different (and incredibly important) pursuits intermingled here: … Continue reading
Educating Tomorrow’s Workforce
Not much has changed since 2010 when on Blogging Innovation (which has now become Innovation Excellence) we asked the following question as part of a series of Innovation Perspectives: What product or sector is in desperate need of innovation?‘. Here … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, education, Innovation Perspectives
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Innovation – Marketing versus Engineering
What are the roadblocks and critical relationships between marketing and engineering in the cause of advancing innovation? Let me start off by recommending that you watch the movie I’ve embedded, as it does a great job of describing how there … Continue reading
Who should own innovation?
When I think about who should ‘own’ or manage innovation, and where it should reside in an organization, I believe the answer is obviously “It depends.” There cannot be a single answer for these questions because every organization’s strategy and … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Innovation Perspectives, Leadership, Management, Strategy
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