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Innovation Pointers: Don't kill ideas - Create killer ideas instead

What’s the point of innovative thinking if our egos get so wrapped up in the “newness” we’ve created that we can’t handle some constructive criticism?

What’s the point in creating the basics of an idea if it dies on the vine because we don’t have a good tool to fertilize it to Agricultural Fair quality?

What’s the point in evaluating an employee if we can’t find a way to help them?

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Innovation Leadership - 6 Values that Foster an Innovative Climate

Demystifying Innovation Culture Efforts is a comprehensive eBook that distills Bob Eckert's and Natalie Jenkins' research and experience down to 12 Strategic Action Areas that leaders need in order to build a sustainable culture of innovation. In this series of articles, we will take each of the 12 Strategies in turn. Recently we featured:

Skills, Accountability, Key Measurements, Technology, Environment, Experimentation, Focus, Strategy, Governance

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 Series 10:  Deep dive into LEADERSHIP

LEADERSHIP: Leadership actions demonstrate support for innovation fostering activities.

Göran Ekvall’s research on innovation dynamics demonstrated that between 40% and 80% of the statistical variance for a climate of creativity in an organization is accounted for by...

Innovation Strategy: Blind Spots are Dangerous!

 

Demystifying Innovation Culture Efforts is a comprehensive eBook that distills Bob Eckert's and Natalie Jenkins' research and experience down to 12 Strategic Action Areas that leaders need in order to build a sustainable culture of innovation. In this series of articles, we will take each of the 12 Strategies in turn.  Recently we featured:

 Skills, Accountability, Measure, Technology, Environment, Experimentation, Focus

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Series 8:  Deep dive into STRATEGY

STRATEGY: Clarified goals for profit generated from current offerings, new offerings and efficiencies.

“Strategy” - as we intend you to think about it here - links directly back to “Measurement” (Read more on Measurement.) Get your measurement system right first, then make some clear, mature, and as bias-free as possible decisions about what your specific goals need to be in the four measurement areas: (Efficiency, Incremental, Radical and Transformational). And, do this in every aspect of your business:

• Finance
• Processes
• Offerings
• Delivery

As we've repeatedly written, in our current cultural understanding of innovation, the perception is that it is all about new offerings, aka products and services. The dangerous blind spot within this point of view is...

The Innovative Brain - March 2015 - Overcome Innovation Fatigue

Innovate!  Faster, better and with no risk.  

This call to action is one we hear all too often. Frankly, it gets old and it's not all that inspiring. The reality is that innovation can be slow, "better" is relative and it can be risky.  Also, it can be exhausting-mentally and physically.  

Our most recent edition of the Innovative Brain, provides some tips and inspirations to help overcome innovation fatigue.  

• Tip:  3 tips for winding up your innovation 
• New Article:  Innovation Leadership:  4 Common Mistakes that Stifle Innovation
• Inspiring Video:  Innovation is more than products
• 12 Strategies Series:  Deep dive into Experimentation and Focus
• Upcoming Events:  Conferences where you can meet other Innovative Brains

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Building a Culture of Innovation: It takes more than wishful thinking

 

 Demystifying Innovation Culture Efforts is a comprehensive eBook that distills Bob Eckert's and Natalie Jenkins' research and experience down to 12 Strategic Action Areas that leaders need in order to build a sustainable culture of innovation. In this series of articles, we will take each of the 12 Strategies in turn. 

Recently, we featured:

Skills, Accountability, Measure, Technology, Environment and Experimentation.

 

Series 7:  Deep Dive into Focus

FOCUS:  A group responsible - with active executive involvement - to foster a culture of innovation.

Innovation efforts, like any other, whether it be safety, quality or ethics, will experience a decline in effectiveness through entropy unless there are...