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How to Spot Your Innovation Blind Spot

Phil McKinney

We all have blind spots in different areas of our lives. The same applies to innovation. We all have areas where we are unaware, uninformed, prejudiced, or unappreciative of certain things, and this makes it difficult to recognize an innovation. This is referred to as an innovation blind spot.

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Celebrate Pride Month by Recognizing the Role of Diversity in Innovation

IdeaScale

Overview: Diversity in your innovation team is crucial for finding unique ideas, improved decision-making, and better execution of those ideas. Pride Month emphasizes that different perspectives have always been key to innovation. This underscores that diversity is needed throughout the innovation process, not just at one point.

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Eleven Reasons for the UK’s Poor Productivity

Destination Innovation

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) UK productivity has fallen to levels it held in 2007. Ironically we may need labour shortages and higher wages to provide incentives to find smarter and more productive ways to do things. We have critical skill shortages in engineering, software, data analysis and IT.

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9 Way Bailey’s Irish Cream Can Help You Innovate

IdeaScale

On December 3rd, 2007, Diageo announced the sale of the billionth bottle of Baileys since it was first introduced in 1973. If we assume that every bottle of Baileys delivered eight generous servings that suggests that over 12 billion glasses of Baileys have been poured since it all began! In another 45 minutes the idea was formed.

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Innovative Businesses Prioritize Creativity

Daniel Burrus

One problem we witness too often in society is the treatment of creativity and business innovation as mutually exclusive occurrences. One problem we witness too often in society is the treatment of creativity and business innovation as mutually exclusive occurrences. And why might a company lack innovation?

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Shifting innovation from a vague buzzword to a mechanism of progress

Christensen Institute

Today’s guest blog post comes from Todd Dunn, Vice President of Innovation at Advocate Health. Below, Todd shares his three-step process, grounded in Christensen’s theories, on how to shift innovation from a vague buzzword to a clear way to make progress. Consumer-driven business model design is not a skill set in most organizations.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | As we seem to heading towards economic downturn, leaders find themselves trying to reduce costs and foster growth at the same time. We have seen this happening during the last economic crisis, when merely 10% of companies performed better at the end of the crisis than they did before it.

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