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Are you a Positive Role Model for Innovation?

IdeaScale

You’ll know you need to improve if you start receiving feedback that says you are too cautious and don’t seek to be bold or different, prefer the tried and true, bring too narrow and tactical a perspective, don’t connect with ideas outside your own area, use old solutions on new problems, or stifle the creativity of others.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 2: Why Business Model Innovation Matters

The BMI Lab Blog

Learnings from sports competitions Competition in business is similar to sports competitions – there are winners and losers. His continuous improvements were mainly creative re-combinations of previously existing concepts far away from cycling sport. But what is the “secret sauce” of winning athletes and companies?

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Culture Creator = Sustainable Innovation

IdeaScale

As products, technologies, business models become commodities over time, your corporate culture can become the source of reinvention and your only enduring competitive advantage. Getting to a place where courage, creativity, and collaboration is the norm for addressing problems or pursuing opportunities can be difficult.

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Creating Innovation Connections as the Customer Advocate

IdeaScale

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. As the customer advocate, you’ll need consistent habits that help you: Stay informed about customer satisfaction and the competitiveness of your offerings. They need to understand which problems, if solved, would have the greatest positive impact.

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50 Research Methods for Innovation Infographic

Open Innovation EU

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. The Handbook of Online and Social Media Research. To get to this list I used the following sources: Research Map.

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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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Be the Architect: Designing an Integrated Innovation System

IdeaScale

Other times, by limiting responsibility for innovation for a specific department, organizations underutilize the creative capabilities of other employees. What is your competitive Advantage over alternatives? By answering six basic questions, CO-STAR can turn an inexact concept into a well-honed value proposition.

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