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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

In these early stages of product development, it can sometimes seem like all of the good ideas have already been taken. When you apply this train of thought to innovation, it becomes apparent that some of the most successful products and services in human history were developed by recycling existing ideas.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company). The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. Now, how about these?

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company). The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. Now, how about these?

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. Most of them were organizations that ‘make and sell’ products (Abbott Laboratories, Kimberly-Clark, Philip Morris, and Gillette Company). The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. The title of this piece is ‘Great to Good’.

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The General Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

Project Management for Stakeholder Interviews. Note that it’s as important for in-house teams to ask most of these questions as it is for consultants; you may know one answer, but do you know this particular stakeholder’s answer? What’s your role with respect to this product? What is this product or service supposed to be?

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IA Summit 09 - Day 2

Boxes and Arrows

IA Summit 2009 Podcasts The IA Summit was held in Memphis, TN from March 20-22. See the Slideshare “IA Summit 2009&# :[link] page for up-to-the-minute lists of available presentations. Just as important, attendees learn to avoid failures Nathan and his team have experienced along the way. Is Interaction Necessary?

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When innovation led to a reversal of fortunes

hackerearth

It was a case of too many products and not enough profit.” On top of structuring management and operations, every new idea was to be consistent with the company’s goals. That is the lesson learned at Lego — just in time,” says David Robertson, Professor of Practice teaching Innovation and Product Development at Wharton.