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Innovate on Purpose
http://innovateonpurpose.blogspot.com
Ideas to support sustainable, repeatable innovation and to help you Innovate on Purpose (TM)
- Added on: Dec 6th, 2005
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Listed in: Innovation
Recent Posts
One (Thousand) ways to innovate
OK I made up the number. But lately it seems on Twitter and Facebook and other social media sites people are claiming "N" number of ways to innovate. That may be true. There may, in fact, be an infinite number of tools and technique...
Conditions that can create an innovation culture
I've been thinking a lot lately about "creating a culture of innovation", which is what a lot of firms suggest they want to do. Of course this is a very lofty goal. Changing a corporate culture doesn't happen easily, and it certainly does...
How customer insights lead to new innovations
I guess my kids are just too old for crayons anymore, so I missed the CrayonMaker when it was first released, but I'd like to use it as an example of understanding customer needs and identifying lead users, and how an innovation can open up an entire...
Innovation and Goal Setting
Typically one of the most significant strategic challenges for any innovation effort has to do with goals. When executives ask their teams to "be more innovative" it's often unclear how innovative and what the ultimate goals for innovation shou...
Innovation and the "chip away" theory
I'm a sports fan, and as such I've managed to learn a number of theories about winning and losing. One of my favorite theories is the "chip away" concept. This is the hallowed method for a team on the wrong side of the score to catc...
Now, brainstorming is dead
Last year in an effort to be provocative, Bruce Nussbaum of BusinessWeek proclaimed that innovation was "dead". That elicited the usual outcry and defense of innovation, from yours truly and others. Bruce wasn't really trying to argue tha...
