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You need a red team, not a red pill

Jeffrey Phillips

What often happens in an innovation setting where new ideas are presented is that everyone not fully behind or read into a new idea becomes the red team, trying to discover reasons - valid and self-serving - that the idea won't succeed. What should happen next, and rarely does, is the creation of a disinterested red team.

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How to Create a Culture to Capitalize on Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Creating a Commercialization Culture A presentation by Jay Morgan, VP Global Innovation Bayer Consumer Care given at the back end of Innovation Conference, October, 2015. It begins in 2011. Jay Morgan shared his story of how Merck Consumer Care (now Bayer Consumer Care) began its innovation journey.

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Good Ideas Often go Nowhere: Here’s What You Can Do About It

The Inovo Group

Yuan was Cisco’s vice president of engineering and in 2011 he pitched a new smartphone-friendly video conferencing system to Cisco management. While the leaders clearly see new product development as the best market entry strategy, that sentiment is clearly not shared by a large majority of others within the organization.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. Unicorns, Decacorns and Hectocorns are the theme of the present era. Never has the world experienced so much wealth, consumed so much resources, collected so much assets, and generated so much wastes.

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Great to Good Innovation

IdeaSpies

Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. Unicorns, Decacorns and Hectocorns are the theme of the present era. Never has the world experienced so much wealth, consumed so much resources, collected so much assets, and generated so much wastes.

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Great to Good

IdeaSpies

Books such as Consumptionomics (2011) by Chandran Nair and Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (2012) by Peter H. Unicorns, Decacorns and Hectocorns are the theme of the present era. Never has the world experienced so much wealth, consumed so much resources, collected so much assets, and generated so much wastes.

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What is innovation management and why your organization needs it

hackerearth

Linda Beltz, organizational structures for open innovation, 2011. The focus area (new markets, new uses, the source of ideas, line extensions, product development, etc.) for a consumer-product company or a business-product one or the best practices for product development in low-tech and high-tech firms will be different.