Michael Michalko
MAY 14, 2022
In school, we learn about geniuses and their ideas, but how did they get those ideas? The following are seven principles that I’ve learned during my lifetime of work in the field of creative thinking — things that I wish I’d been taught as a student. 2 Creative Thinking Is Work. It’s producing a result.
InnovationTraining.org
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
The Jobs to be Done Playbook: Align Your Markets, Organizations, and Strategy Around Customer Needs. In this related read by Tony Ulwick, you’ll learn about an “outcome-driven” innovation approach that turns innovation from an art into a science that produces actionable results. Get it here. Get it here. Get it here.
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IdeaScale
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
A mentor enables innovators to focus on their project results while also learning about themselves along the way. Leaders can mentor innovators through any of the practical business steps in the value creation process itself: Connecting to emerging market trends and identifying the most significant opportunities.
Planview
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Read Next: Agile Transformation: 10 Lessons Learned (so far) on our Agile Journey. Read Next: The Agile Manager’s Handbook. Or identify a specific, critical initiative that is a pain point for the business – such as the misalignment of product teams or sales and marketing teams — and can be undertaken quickly.
Michael Michalko
AUGUST 25, 2022
Using a technique I described in my book Thinkertoys (A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques) on how to find and force connections between a challenge and random stimuli, they randomly picked a picture of “Beehives.” The result was that teams of marketers and researchers now meet quarterly to learn Ahow to talk to each other.@
Innov8rs
JANUARY 16, 2023
How to address innovation within the current market conditions? What we've learned since then is that, just like everything else, competitive advantages have a life cycle. And, in Rita’s words, “that cuts short the learning and what might be a great innovation going forward”. "We Those days are over.
IdeaScale
FEBRUARY 28, 2017
Barrier busters know the difference between the market saying “no,” and an organizational obstacle saying, “no.”. A leader might have learned from the VC role to let go of struggling projects, where customers don’t respond as expected or where the market does not respond positively, in order to move the resources to fund innovation winners.
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