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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. Take the iPod for example.

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Innovation is a team sport

Cris Beswick

At OUTCOME , we believe innovation is a system game, meaning it’s a team sport. The challenge is that many organisations have lost sight of the true definition of a team. 1] Let’s also differentiate between a department or group inside an organisation, as a group does not necessarily constitute a team. Pearson/Prentice Hall.

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How To Lead Through Crisis

Innovation Excellence

As if the real news isn’t bad enough, unimaginably crazy stories start getting passed around. I called my senior team into an emergency meeting and told them, “This is bad. I called my senior team into an emergency meeting and told them, “This is bad. Really bad. Certainly mistakes were made.

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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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The General Stakeholder Interview

Boxes and Arrows

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? There may be variation due to a poor understanding of who the users are. What’s your role with respect to this product? Who are those people?

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Alignment Diagrams

Boxes and Arrows

Bad experience. See the original details of the event from 2009 [1] ). Indi Young developed this technique and detailed it in her book Mental Models (Rosenfeld Media, 2008) [2]. For some things I used their website, for others I had to call. There were emails, regular mail and even a fax involved as well. Why does this happen?

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Between 1996-2001, Jim Collins’ team researched and wrote a bestselling book called Good to Great. did a follow-on study that found 32 of the 50 companies described in these books to only matched or underperformed the market over their subsequent 15-to-20-year period. The title of this piece is ‘Great to Good’. The question is “Why?”