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My innovation journey (so far)

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been leading innovation work for close to 20 years, writing about it on this blog and in my book (Relentless Innovation). I've made some great friends along the way and been influenced by a range of great innovation thought leaders. Too much time at the innovation coal face was making me a bit cynical.

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Training Your Team to Innovate

Innovation in Practice

To drive innovation across your company, you must train your employees how to innovate. Innovation is a skill, not a gift, and it can be learned like any other skill. Go back to your innovation competency model. Start there to think about the training needed to get employees up to speed.

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Innovation 101

Gregg Fraley

Three Hour Virtual Training, February 5th, led by Innovation Master Trainer Gregg Fraley. Dodge the Pitfalls & Establish an Innovation Cycle. There are more pitfalls in an Innovation Initiative than the moon has craters. Does one need to take a Stanford course or read 35 books about innovation to get started?

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Tony Hsieh – The Remarkable Cultural Innovator at Zappos

Destination Innovation

After graduating Hsieh worked for Oracle Corporation but quit in 1996 after just five months, to co-found the LinkExchange, an advertising network. The company gained a reputation for extraordinary customer service. This is useful training because in busy times all employees are expected to be available to man the phones.

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Why you should work with an innovation consultant

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm an innovation consultant. I've been working in the innovation space for over 12 years. I have a somewhat (cough) vested interest in writing a blog post about why you should work with an innovation consultant. The real purpose of this blog is to answer the question: why should I work with an innovation consultant?

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The appropriate innovation speed: slow, then fast

Jeffrey Phillips

However, I could not help going back into my archives to dredge up a post I wrote almost ten years ago, which was entitled Innovation Fast and Slow. At the time I was writing this post, I was concerned that too many companies were under too much pressure to speed up their innovation activities and generate some interesting new ideas.

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Innovation Confidence Course

Jeffrey Phillips

Recently I read a nice article in Inc Magazine about 10 Innovation Killers. That factor was "create an obstacle course for ideas". Now, being a natural contrarian (I know, strange attribute for an innovator) I thought: the only ideas that matter are those that can make it through a number of hoops and hurdles, internal and external.

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