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Book Review - Built to Innovate by Ben Bensaou

Jeffrey Phillips

Since I am an innovation consultant, working with Fortune 500 companies to build innovation capacity, and I regularly blog on this site about innovation topics, I often have the opportunity to review new books about innovation. In this blog, I am going to be reviewing the book Built to Innovate by Ben Bensaou.

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Where can you get Fresh Ideas?

Destination Innovation

Do you need some novel ideas for the problems and challenges you face? Here are some places and methods to help you find them: Read Widely : Books, magazines, and online articles are great sources of inspiration. Different perspectives can trigger new ideas. Talking to people from different backgrounds can spark fresh ideas.

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Crafting the Path to Success: Designing Leadership Team Offsites for Strategic Planning Triumph

Leapfrogging

By stepping away from daily operations, you and your team can focus on long-term goals, engage in deep discussions, and forge stronger bonds. Engaging Participants For your leadership team offsite to be a triumph in strategic planning, engaging the participants is non-negotiable.

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

Six years ago, when Amazon sold primarily print books, company research showed that customers liked e-books—a new product that threatened Amazon’s core business. 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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7 TENETS OF CREATIVE THINKING

Michael Michalko

This principle helped Walt Disney bring his fantasies to life and also enabled Albert Einstein to engage in thought experiments that led to revolutionary ideas about space and time. Therefore when trying to produce new ideas, do not evaluate them as they occur. Both are energizing. The only certainty in life is uncertainty.

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Idea Generation in Business: Eight Techniques to Supercharge Creativity

Qmarkets

When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. Reverse brainstorming is a method for idea generation in business that capitalizes on that.

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5 Misconceptions to Avoid When Building Your Innovation Strategy

Qmarkets

Similarly, strict top-level decision-making increases the opportunity for groupthink and lessens the chance of fluid idea generation throughout the organization. This, in return, removes any hesitancy or fear around idea generation amongst the employees. However, it leaves very little room for new possibilities.