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Innovation fails because humans have emotions

Idea to Value

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. Not because of a lack of process in a powerpoint strategy deck. So what can we do about it?

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

The holistic approach of how a company is implementing a strategy and works its way towards its vision is described by the logic of all dimensions of its business model – the WHO, WHAT, HOW and VALUE. In opposition a strategy is a plan to achieve a unique, differentiated positioning over the competition.

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

Bezos took a strong stand that the company must not create a business strategy designed only to protect their existing business when their customers clearly wanted something else. They did just that, and by 2011, e-books sales surpassed sales of print books. In fact, by April 2011, Amazon became the world’s largest e-book retailer.

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Best Practices are Stupid

Stephen Shapiro

I previously started posting the 40 strategies from my Best Practices are Stupid book. As you read this and the other chapters, please remember that this book was published back in 2011. Although a workable solution may have been found using this strategy, it is unclear if that was the case.

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Best Practices for Internal Crowdsourcing: Lessons Learned from NASA

IdeaScale

Learn innovation and crowdsourcing strategy from NASA. The center was created in 2011 by the federal Office of Science, Technology, and Policy to foster innovation at NASA and throughout U.S. This is due to fear —of the unknown, change, the possibility that making the change might be too hard or take up too much time, etc.

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Smart Service Canvas

ITONICS

Services that aggregate and analyze data through intelligent technical systems or platforms to create customer value are called smart services. The service provider has to find out which Interaction Level is requested and appreciated by the customer and feasible from a technological point of view. Ecosystem Perspective.

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

March 2011: I submitted the final manuscript to Penguin for Best Practices are Stupid. It covered a wide range of topics related to innovation: strategy, organization structures, measures, technology, and more. April 2011: Almost immediately after submitting the manuscript, I conceived the concept of a “Challenge Toolkit.”