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Innovation, NASA-Style: 1% Inspiration, 99% Perspiration

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Launching Excellence Much of the work at NASA is about tiny, tiny details: how to shave a little weight off a battery, how to eliminate parts in a machine to reduce the risk of failure, or how to make a system more intuitive. The post Innovation, NASA-Style: 1% Inspiration, 99% Perspiration appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Innovation-Led Transformation: delivering the next, now

Idea to Value

By any measure of success, this sort of failure rate shouldn’t be allowed in large, established companies which. By confusing creativity and the generation of ideas with successfully delivering innovation, companies are blinding themselves from the real reason for their failure to innovate. Why is this?

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99% Failure

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I don’t subscribe to glorifying failure which is often talked about in innovation circles. However one of the Team GB 4x400m runners who was disqualified talked about success in sport being a result from 99% failure. In other words was it the right result for the wrong reasons ?

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#1,406 – Heart Patch

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Right now one of my arteries may even be 99% clogged and I’d have no idea. And because survivors’ hearts are damaged, more than a third face an increased risk of future heart failure. Because the problem with a heart attack is that it could come out of nowhere to kill you. According to Futurism , “Each year, 735,000 people in the U.S.

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Do You Want To Make A Point Or Do You Want To Make A Difference?

Innovation Excellence

However we should remember that #Occupy was a massive failure that achieved little if anything at all. Declaring, “We are the 99%,” they captured the attention of the nation and then the world, eventually growing to encompass protests in 951 cities across 82 countries. Clearly, our government has failed us, but it goes far beyond that.

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How to indentify and justify the ROI of innovation

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A cooperative, delusional mindset ending in failure and frustration for all involved. 99% of life insurance policies don’t pay, much to the joy of those living their lives without disruption. This is what David Binetti , a six-time entrepreneur and pioneer of the Innovation Options framework, calls “a race to ridiculousness.”

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50 Quotes on Risk Taking

Idea Champions

I can accept failure. Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. 99 percent of success is built on failure." -- Charles Kettering. That is quite different from being rash." -- General George Patton. Everybody fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. Fear is an illusion." -- Michael Jordan.