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Choose Your Own Innovation Adventure Infographic

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Overview : Innovators face a number of challenges, as detailed in our choose-your-own-adventure infographic , including leadership buy-in, resources, and team-building. Leadership. The first step in building an innovation culture in any organization is to develop the idea of innovation as a priority.

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Why diversity is important to innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

We had a good turn out and I think a good panel of speakers, and I found that even though I've been doing innovation related work for over 15 years there are still plenty of things to learn. I've long believed in the concept of diversity and what a strong and diverse team can bring to an innovation program.

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Strengthen 5 Dimensions of Your Culture for Innovation, Recovery and Resurgence

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He wanted his executive team to experience what it means to “manage” the risks it took to maintain industry leadership. So he had them join in a set of team building exercises – one of which involved climbing a 30’ pole with a safety harness on, and then standing on a 12” disk at the very top (with nothing to hold on to!).

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What NASA Can Teach Us About the Intrinsic Value of Connecting to Other Innovators

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Numerous organizations run crowdsourced innovation programs, because companies can find better new ideas and take action on those ideas faster. The post What NASA Can Teach Us About the Intrinsic Value of Connecting to Other Innovators appeared first on Innovation Management.

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Innovation Training Under Utilized

Gregg Fraley

Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Poor knowledge of innovation process, approaches and frameworks. Gregg Fraley , founder of GFi, is a master innovation trainer.

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Building an Idea-Driven Organization at HCA

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I instantly knew that the book contained the foundation of the culture I would hope to build in MidAmerica—my only question was whether the MidAmerica team was ready for it. From these “simple truths”, my team and I worked to develop a structure that would support an Idea-Driven Organization.