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My Innovation Management Summer Reading: Ideas are Free.

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These eight characteristics are similar in function and structure to the four-stage loop Kindling uses to prepare clients to launch their innovation programs : Discover, Discuss, Evaluate, and Decide. These authors take a stance on participation over rewards when the goal of the organization is to create a long-term innovation machine.

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The Value of One Good Idea

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Most companies obviously won’t hit on something so revolutionary as these three, but the benefits from a single good idea justify the cost of investing in an innovation program surprisingly often. Southwest isn’t the only airline to benefit from one good idea. Less than a year later they posted profits for the first time.

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