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Can Small Teams Run Innovation Programs?

KindlingApp

We generally call that last kind an “innovation program.” Let’s talk about a fourth kind: programmatic innovation on the scale of a small team, such as a startup or a department within a large company. Desiree’s blog post last week about innovation tools throughout the 20th century was interesting in this regard.

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Culture Jolt #28 - Lean into myths, not just methods

Values Centered Innovation

Myths are stories, whether historical or fictional, that can be essential to how an organizational culture strives to enable innovation with every person, in every job. Being innovative is not always easy. It can take a heroic effort to identify a new goal, birth innovative solutions, and put those solutions to work.

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Mindset Jolt #11 - Begin with the inhale, not the exhale

Values Centered Innovation

The same is true for the innovation process, which also has a breathing rhythm. First comes an inhale, where you define a goal or intention and gather the "raw materials" you need to innovate by gaining new perspectives and knowledge. Both of those rhythms are unnatural and unhealthy.

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Process Jolt #11 - Begin with the inhale, not the exhale

Values Centered Innovation

The same is true for the innovation process, which also has a breathing rhythm. First comes an inhale, where you define a goal or intention and gather new perspectives and knowledge – the "raw materials" you need to innovate. What would happen if you habitually inhaled quickly and shallowly, and over-emphasized your exhale?

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Process Jolt #11 - Begin with the inhale, not the exhale

Values Centered Innovation

The same is true for the innovation process, which also has a breathing rhythm. First comes an inhale, where you define a goal or intention and gather the "raw materials" you need to innovate by gaining new perspectives and knowledge. Both of those rhythms are unnatural and unhealthy.

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Training is an Innovation Accelerant II

Gregg Fraley

Inexperience in: the kind of divergent thinking necessary to innovate, in specific meeting behaviors and facilitation skills, and in innovation process, approaches and frameworks. Here are details regarding innovation courses you can attend in the near future, Denver, August 28 – 31.

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Innovation Training Under Utilized

Gregg Fraley

Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. How can you innovate if you don’t actually know how it’s done? Maybe that’s one reason why 94% of managers are unsatisfied with innovation performance? Your innovation efforts will fail without training.