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Six Best Books on Creativity: The Classics that Teach the How and Not the Why

Innovation in Practice

If you like creativity and innovation, there are a lot of great books out there that cover just a wide range of topics. This book contains many great stories, jokes, and metaphors. In the book, de Bono introduced the idea of thinking in a reverse direction, which dramatically increases your odds of hitting a valuable idea. .

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Innovative Strategies for Effective R&D Budgeting

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Dreaming big and balancing the books by taking a different approach to R&D budgeting at Siemens Energy. Now, imagine that something special is a groundbreaking innovation that could change the world. But here’s the catch: you don’t know how much that innovation will cost, or how long it will take to achieve.

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Manufacturing Isn’t Dead, It’s Just Transforming Before Our Eyes

Leapfrogging

Large scale 3D printing farms will create the next industrial revolution. 3D printing promises to do for industry what the internet has done to the information world. No longer relegated to trinkets or prototyping, 3D printing is now going into full-scale mass production. It also promises to reshape competition.

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My innovation journey (so far)

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been leading innovation work for close to 20 years, writing about it on this blog and in my book (Relentless Innovation). I've made some great friends along the way and been influenced by a range of great innovation thought leaders. I think a re-introduction is in order. Most managers will ask: why take the risk?

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Designing Unique Workshops is hard work

Paul Hobcraft

A great book, written by Bill Sharpe, explaining the Three Horizons often comes to mind. Innovation is our 100% of our focus and we can, without question , advance your knowledge and insights across all of its complexities to be simplified through our workshops, dialogues and discovery approaches. For example: 1.

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Ignite Collaboration: 10 Virtual Team Building Activities for Success

Leapfrogging

Improved Productivity : Teams that communicate well and have strong interpersonal relationships tend to be more efficient and productive. Innovation and Creativity : Virtual team building can stimulate creativity by encouraging members to think outside the box and bounce ideas off one another.

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What Did the Pandemic Teach Us About New Product Development?

Planview

The bulk of the webinar is based on a recent research paper— Accelerating innovation: some lessons from the pandemic —published by Dr. Robert Cooper in the Journal of Product Innovation Management.