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Charles Leadbeater on innovation. The Best Practices of Technology Brokers. Companies that are best at developing out-of-the-box thinking on new products employ four successful work practices. An excerpt from the new book, How Breakthroughs Happen. by Andrew Hargadon Technology brokers have discovered how to bridge the disparate worlds they move among outside their boundaries, and how to build new ventures from the technologies and people they come across.
In the process, they have developed four intertwined work practices that help them do this: capturing good ideas, keeping ideas alive, imagining new uses for old ideas, and putting promising concepts to the test. Capturing good ideas The first step is to bring in promising ideas. Designers at IDEO, for example, seem obsessed with learning about materials and products they have no immediate use for. Technology brokers capture even more ideas from doing focused work on specific problems, especially when studying new industries or visiting new locations. The result? Most Innovative Companies | The Fast Company Blog.