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How to Spot Your Innovation Blind Spot

Phil McKinney

A culture that doesn't reward or recognize creative thinking can stifle innovation and make it difficult to see outside the established norms. Be curious and invest in learning about new industries, trends, and technologies. It was a far-fetched idea that posed too many technical and legal challenges to pursue.

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Top 3 Alternative Assets for your Business Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

By establishing a clear process that allows people to share their ideas, it creates an opportunity for creativity. Creativity then facilitates out of the box thinking. This increases the amount of ideas submitted, creativity, and employee satisfaction. This can then cause audience disillusionment and fewer idea submissions.

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The Importance of Persistence: Building an Innovation System for the Long-term

The Inovo Group

A 2007 study by M. CEOs who focus their attention on future events and external activities lead their firms to early adoption and invention of new technologies and greater and faster development of innovations. For some companies this can be up to 10% of their ‘creative’ budget (R&D, NPD, design, etc.). Prabhu, & R.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates (and 20 th century’s other creative icon -Walt Disney) shared the same blind spot: They suggested execution executives as their successors. How to Miss the Boat – Five Times.

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Designing for Harmony

Boxes and Arrows

In 2007, Scott Cook had another important insight: He realized that he’d never be Steve Jobs. In 2007, Bennett stepped down and the current CEO, Brad Smith, took over. At the time, the technology was not up to the task of translating the desktop environment to the browser, so the experience suffered.

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