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An innovation culture or a culture of continuity

Jeffrey Phillips

If innovation is not a permanent component of the operation, why change the culture of continuity for an activity that will have a very short lifespan and introduces risk and variation? To do all of this work effectively, innovation needs to be fully embedded in the regular, day to day operations. Isolate it.

Culture 252
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Innovation Strategy – 40 Articles on Fostering an Innovative Workplace Culture

BrainZooming

9 Critical Steps Before Your Innovation Strategy Gets Sexy. #2 Throw open innovation to encompass perspectives from throughout the organizations AND outside the organization. Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives.

Strategy 151
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Tune-In To Taster Tools On Thursday

Gregg Fraley

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. Thinking Differently Takes Tools. At some point everybody needs to think differently.

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Training is an Innovation Accelerant II

Gregg Fraley

Your innovation efforts will fail without training. Yes, you can train people in creative thinking, Front-End-of-Innovation (FEI) frameworks, and in meeting facilitation. You need focused imaginative, divergent, visioning, strategic, and conceptual thinking. Creative training is the fuel for innovation fire.

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Gregg Fraley - Untitled Article

Gregg Fraley

Importance of thinking diversity. Measuring creative thinking preferences. Long term innovation road-mapping. Looking for innovation opportunities in new digital technologies. Involving and engaging a wide group (Open innovation concepts and use of virtual ideation platforms). Challenge Mapping.

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Top 10 must-read books on Innovation

hackerearth

Being innovative or creative looks like an inherent trait to most of us, doesn’t it? However, if you’ve been one of those lucky ones who had “creativity” as an academic discipline at school, you’d know that it can at least be nurtured. And now, we are back to finding ways to use our creative energies to build something of value.

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11. To Compete or Not To Compete (part 1)

Stephen Shapiro

Kevin Boudreau and Karim Lakhani wrote an article on this topic in the MIT Sloane Management Review that examined the merits of each form of open innovation. On the other hand, competition is most effective when “an innovation problem is solved by broad experimentation.”. Consider your typical group brainstorming session.