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10 Practices That Drive Innovation

Innovation means more than just new products or services. It means improving the process of creating those products, or selling them, or experiencing them, or even improving the ways we manage the people who do all of the above. Perhaps my favorite definition [...]

Innovation pitfalls

The innovation pathway hides many pitfalls. Here is choice of actions or omissions which will guarantee "The Poor Innovation Management Prize": Do not communicate with employees about innovation objectives, goals, etc. Make clear to staff that innovation is [...]

What is your innovation intent?

Vijay Govindarajan and Jatin Desai published, last September, an interesting article on innovation intent : Innovation intent answers the question, “What will innovation give me that nothing else will?” It clarifies strategic direction for your innovation [...]

How non-customers can help innovation

HBR has recently published a really interesting post on the potential non-customers is generating innovation in an organization. Some of the most successful and disruptive innovations stem from a company’s ability to tap into demand from non-customers in its [...]

IS MORE PRODUCT INNOVATION REALLY NECESSARY?

Innovation has long been an important part of business. No matter what industry you’re in, innovation is often what sets your business apart from the crowd. See on www.forbes.com [...]

Successful product development : unique, coherent... and rare

Consumer product companies with consistently successful product innovation, like SodaStream and Dyson, appear to have two factors in common. A study by Booz & Company on the attributes that are going to make a new product successful in the market. The [...]

NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE FAILURE – HOLLAND HERALD

An interesting article about the "power" of failure with great examples. We have to accept failure to succeed! People with a ‘growth’ mindset, however, who believe that success is based on effort and continual learning and that intelligence can change, [...]