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The Fallacy of the Aha Moment & Overnight Success in Innovation

Idea to Value

While the visit unquestionably left an impression on him, the theory was actually only developed through the many conversations he had years after the visit with people who had also done research on the topic. It took another 17 years before he actually published his findings in his book on the topic, On the Origin of Species.

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Create a Culture of Innovation with the 10 Laws of Trust

Leapfrogging

I wrote extensively about how to create a culture of innovation in my last book, The Invisible Advantage. One such person is JetBlue Chairman, Joel Peterson, author of the book The 10 Laws of Trust. It means dealing openly with bad news as well as good news. With proper metrics, people learn to trust the system.

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Unit Economics: How to Calculate CAC & LTV – It Depends

IM Insights

Elijah Eilert speaks to Paul Orlando about his book Growth Units to discover how to best calculate Customer Acquisition Cost and Lifetime Value. Understanding revenue and cost on a per unit basis for Startups/innovation projects is vital but even established businesses have a lot to gain from doing it right. Get the Book.

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The Fallacy of the Aha Moment & Overnight Success in Innovation

Innovation Excellence

It took another 17 years before he actually published his findings in his book on the topic, On the Origin of Species. The end result was an adhesive that was very weak but reusable as it peeled off without leaving stains. Sometime later, the team realized that they could apply the adhesive directly on the paper.

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Does culture eat strategy for breakfast?

Innovation 360 Group

Because Sherlock draws from such a massive, diverse dataset, the development team at Innovation360 understood that Sherlock couldn’t come online until he was 100% contextual and tuned to the language of innovation management. Successful innovators don’t try to be world champions in what they know they are not yet good at.

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Why you need extreme constraints to fuel innovation

hackerearth

The team calls itself a curiosity driven research group at Stanford, trying to invent novel technologies with clinical applications with a current focus on resource-poor settings. Amazing, cost-effective and extremely useful innovations come out from this frugal science advocate’s lab. Have you heard of the “Prakash Lab”?

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Why organization matters for Innovation Success

Innovation 360

Because Sherlock draws from such a massive, diverse dataset, the development team at Innovation360 understood that Sherlock couldn’t come online until he was 100% contextual and tuned to the language of innovation management. Successful innovators don’t try to be world champions in what they know they are not yet good at.