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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

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These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. Strong innovation usually emerges from collaborative, hands-on or observational experiences that take place on the front lines with customers. Your team, unit, division, and even enterprise should know what is most important to your customers.

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The dos and don'ts of innovation shared by 10 global leaders

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Co-owner of Koch Industries and one of the top ten billionaires in the world according to Forbes, Charles Koch believes that you should “embrace change, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.” Easily the first lesson in the innovation handbook, asking “why” and “what-if” will set the ball rolling.

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Top 10 must-read books on Innovation

hackerearth

He believes diverse teams with an array of perspectives should collaborate to bring ideas from various fields to create the Medici Effect. It is a fantastic buy for creative people who need help sorting tasks, figuring out whether they are dreamers, doers, or incrementalists, and deciding how much energy to invest to execute their ideas.

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