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Culture of Innovation
What are the building blocks of a organization's culture of innovation? The people behind it!
Why Innovation Is Beginner's Luck
Your boss has been an industry expert for decades. He keeps talking about innovation. Your gut tells you he is about to fail again. Your gut is right By G. Michael Maddock and Raphael Louis... More »
Innovation Needed: The Baltimore Orioles
For the Birds and every other organization that needs a groundbreaking insight, here's how to find it By G. Michael Maddock and Raphael Louis Vitón Pity, please, the Baltimore Orioles, as we come out of... More »
Coming up with ideas is easy - it's the insights that are tough!
How many times have you heard, “I have a great idea!” or seen presentations loaded with concepts that purport to be the next big thing? Have you seen many of these ideas move forward only... More »
Through the Lens of Insurance Agents: A Case For Asking Consumers Directly
There's a cool opportunity right in front of the eyes of the life insurance industry. The trouble is, their glasses are a little dirty. In a business that is so distribution focused, or in hipper... More »
Creative Destruction, Eco-Frivolity, and 67 Other Innovations I Saw This Week
The Trendwatching Brief should be considered mandatory reading, providing a refreshing perspective on international creativity and challenging you to rethink consumption, values, and human behavior. So it was with great interest I opened the latest... More »
An Innovation Needs Three Parents - BusinessWeek
As you will remember, we are big fans of idea parenting . We believe the people who come up with a clever innovation idea should be the ones to shepherd it through the entire execution... More »
Creating Great Ideas Takes Empathy
We’ve all been there: Brainstorming sessions with a bunch of wise guys who rain ridiculous ideas on the room like a WWII blitzkrieg. It never fails, just as the room starts cooking and folks are... More »
How Do You Stack Up? Evaluating Sustainability Leadership
Note to CEOs and Industry Innovators: if your CSR department reports to the PR department instead of directly to you, you're bypassing your innovation pipeline and missing a big business opportunity for innovation. Consumers are... More »
What Business Are Insurance Companies REALLY In?
Theodore Levitt wrote a famous paper on the subject of Marketing Myopia in the 1960’s at the beginning of the modern marketing movement. After re-reading an excerpt, it became clear to me that the insurance... More »
Are You Overlooking Simple Innovations Because You're Too Smart?
Can a checklist change an entire industry? Well, according to an article from the Harvard Business Review’s Healthcare Innovations Insight Center, checklists are one of the ten innovations that will transform the future of medicine... More »
Recent Discussions
| Title | Replies | Most Recent Post |
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5 Ways to Advance Your Career with Innovation |
new | Nicholas Kinports August 13, 2010 10:42 AM |
OfficeMax's CMO on Creating Innovative Marketing Cultures |
new | Raff Viton July 6, 2010 9:53 AM |
"Why" Are You Innovating? |
new | Roy Luebke June 15, 2010 12:44 PM |
Idea and Innovation Management Tool Roundup - Top 5 + others |
1 | gallian1 May 27, 2010 8:33 AM |
The New Paradigm of Advantage - Allocative & Creative NOT Extractive & Protective |
new | Raff Viton May 21, 2010 9:54 PM |
10 Innovation Lessons From Steve Jobs |
1 | AdamRobertMiller May 19, 2010 3:50 PM |
Ideas from anywhere - said differently... |
2 | Raff Viton May 12, 2010 2:27 PM |
Four Ways Of Seeing That Set True Innovators Apart |
new | Golli Hashemian April 30, 2010 2:58 PM |
I Think - Therefore I Snack |
1 | Maciej Kokot April 26, 2010 3:29 AM |
Top 11 Ways to Implement a Culture of Innovation |
5 | Bnice April 20, 2010 11:00 AM |
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