Michael Michalko

AUGUST 25, 2022

Engineers working for a power company in the northwest were struggling with the problem of how to de-ice power lines during ice storms so they don’t collapse from the weight of the ice. How can a beehive be the clue to a solution? The conventional approaches to the problem were proving to be very expensive and inefficient.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 14, 2017

They work from a mind-set that making connections and reaching out to others will help all involved, including the company and its customers. Getting out of the office to interact with other leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, educators, artists, or thinkers from around the world enhances creativity and innovation skills.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. Six years ago, when Amazon sold primarily print books, company research showed that customers liked e-books—a new product that threatened Amazon’s core business. Begin with the End .

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IdeaScale

MARCH 28, 2017

Getting to a place where courage, creativity, and collaboration is the norm for addressing problems or pursuing opportunities can be difficult. It can help to link your innovation culture to your overall company culture. It is often said, “the soft stuff is the hard stuff.” And the costs are real.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Often, managers are required to play the role of a barrier buster to ensure the team’s creativity delivers bottom line results for the business. Champions and sponsors give up or leave the company because it is too hard to get everyone onboard with ideas. There is not enough funding to form and facilitate innovation projects.

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The BMI Lab Blog

JULY 28, 2022

But what is the “secret sauce” of winning athletes and companies? His continuous improvements were mainly creative re-combinations of previously existing concepts far away from cycling sport. In the early stages the main differentiators among companies are the quality and features of products.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Champions and sponsors give up or leave the company because it is too hard to get everyone onboard with ideas. Download the complete chapter of Leading Innovation Ten Essential Roles for Harnessing the Creative Talent of your Enterprise for the full text on mentorship. If you’d rather not wait, download the entire chapter today.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

Shared and easy-to-use innovation practices and tools can enable everyone in a company to work together to develop ideas that deliver compelling customer value. Other times, by limiting responsibility for innovation for a specific department, organizations underutilize the creative capabilities of other employees.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 10, 2017

Shared and easy-to-use innovation practices and tools can enable everyone in a company to work together to develop ideas that deliver compelling customer value. Other times, by limiting responsibility for innovation for a specific department, organizations underutilize the creative capabilities of other employees.

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System Design Innovation Handbook 100

hackerearth

OCTOBER 17, 2017

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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Open Innovation EU

APRIL 19, 2017

LifeSense’s goal for this year it to be the fastest growing medical company in Europe. Over the years, many different works have been published that deal with creative research methods : there are so many great alternatives for finding that real gap in the market and iterating your product to its final stage. 101 Design Methods.

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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

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. Perhaps, like renowned educationalist, Sir Ken Robinson says, “We got educated out of creativity.”

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Planview

AUGUST 3, 2022

Although business transformation is complex, its impact isn’t: Research from McKinsey clearly shows that the more transformation actions a company takes, the greater its chances for success financially, culturally, and organizationally. That agility helps companies react quickly to stay ahead of the competition. Cultural Change.

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IdeaScale

JANUARY 24, 2017

Venture capitalists are good at finding, choosing, and bringing the creative ideas of others to market. You understand that not every idea will develop into an innovative solution, bring the company new customers, or generate greater return from existing customers. Most companies aren’t only bottom-line driven.

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Be-novative

APRIL 21, 2021

Purpose answers an all-important question, “ Why does a company exist? ”?—?and Companies that were already purpose-driven have been pivoting and expanding to include new areas and specialties. They are also healthier, more resilient, and more likely to stay at the company.

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Open Innovation EU

MAY 17, 2017

In essence it is nowadays recognized as the difference between creativity (Schumpetarian) and alertness (Kirzner) – creation versus discovering. When to be creative, when to be managerial. Practice of Empathy: can be taught using creative research methods. A framework that has been validated is the FINCODA-framework.

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CorporateIntel

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

If all a mission statement is meant to do is fill a half page in your human resources handbook, it is probably not worth the time to write it down. Any answer to this presupposes a complete lack of faith in the common sense of why we are employed by our company and not another. Once more I ask, where’s the question?

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Open Innovation EU

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Greiner discussed in his work Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow that all of the before are true, but change over time for a growing company. It helps in explaining differences between organizations and it helps in understanding why some companies mature in innovation and other don’t. Larry Greiner (1989). Walters, H.,

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Innov8rs

JANUARY 16, 2023

During our recent The Innovator’s Handbook 2023 launch event, Apoorva Shah (Vice President of Innovation at Wiley) and Cassandra Galloway (Head of Strategic Workforce Transformation at Zurich Insurance) dove into the crucial topic of innovation culture, as summarized below. What's needed to build high-performing innovation teams?

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