The 3 Biggest Barriers To Innovation, And How To Smash Them. [This is the third post in a series of excerpts adapted from Luke Williams’s Disrupt: Think the Unthinkable to Spark Transformation in Your Business.
The first excerpt is here and the second is here.] How do you transform an opportunity into an idea? Well, the first thing is to get comfortable with the belief that any old ideas won’t do. What we’re interested in are disruptive ideas; that is, ideas with the power for great impact and influence. Ideas that challenge assumed boundaries and inspire a sense of what’s possible. 1: Feeling overwhelmed, directionless, and without focus In my experience, this is the direct result of relying on traditional brainstorming approaches, which, by the way, have been around since the 1930s, when ad-man Alex Faickney Osborn first popularized them in his book, Applied Imagination. [How are you gonna find the needle in there?!
2: Thinking in terms of isolated products, services, and information 3: Getting stuck at the water-cooler Forcing Connections. 15 ways of innovation by combinations. 1.
Historywatching When Gutenberg was asked how he arrived at the invention of the printing press, he confessed it was as simple as seeing a new connection between two existing products: the wine press and the coin punch. 2. Combine products with services 3. Temporary combinations 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Introduction to Innovation - Basics of Innovation - Innovation 101. Innovation Essentials: 10 Basic Principles of Innovation – Everyone Should Know. After 10 years of working in the trenches of innovation, I have attempted to distill down the ten MOST important concepts that I believe anyone working in this field should be aware of: 1.
Product vs Process Innovation – In my opinion, this is the highest level break-out of the painfully broad term “Innovation”. Product innovation is developing a new product (iPhone). Process innovation is improving the processes employed to produce or deliver the product, and to make it more efficient or productive (eg. Robot welders on the factory floor at GM). 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
What is innovation? What is sustainable innovation? How to be sustainable in this challenging business environment.
Imagine today we are celebrating India’s first day of independence and think back of that one transformative leader who was named as the second most important person in the 20th century Mahatma Gandhi, he had the same country we all have today, people spitting on the street, throwing the garbage outside the garbage cans, but he transformed those people into a match less army through the power of his transformative mantras and those mantras, even today if we hear, it will ignite your blood and make you want to stand up and cry out for freedom, he said “do or die” he said “Vantha Matharam” he said “be Indian, buy Indian” he said “Sathyam Ava Jayatha” he said all these things and when we heard all these words – when ordinary people like us heard those words, they became extra ordinary, who could become matchless warriors, who have over thrown the most powerful nations on earth at that time.
What does an innovation strategist do? The opportunity to become an “Innovation Strategist” catches people’s attention.
Since our initial posting for the role in Toronto, we’ve received over 120 resumes from dynamic, brilliant young individuals all interested in joining the Idea Couture team. From the outside looking in, innovation strategy sounds incredibly sexy (and it certainly looks good on a business card). But if you ask a typical applicant what exactly they think an innovation strategist does, what usually follows is blank stares, buzz words, or my favorite, “They strategize innovation”. None of those are good answers.
There’s nothing worse than expecting one thing and getting another. You Innovate Only if Doing Nothing is a Bigger Risk. How to Spot Disruptive Innovation Opportunities. The Innovator’s Curse. When Clay Christensen discusses innovation (for example his talk at BoxWorks here) he puts forward theories on the causes of success and failure of innovation.
Through a repertoire of case studies evoking David vs. Goliath he offers a convincing alternative to the management orthodoxy which prevents innovation, especially the meaningful disruptive kind, in established organizations. More importantly he asserts that innovation is not something that happens randomly or only through the incantations of a Chief Magical Officer. There is a process and even perhaps a repeatable process for successful innovation.
25 Most Essential Insights About Innovation. Innovation is difficult.
You are not the only one who thinks it’s a challenge. It has been a struggle for me the last 25 years as manager, consultant, facilitator and as founder of the FORTH innovation method. That’s why I love it actually. I love to do difficult things. My personal goal is to make innovation less complex so others will be able to innovate their product – and service portfolios and organizations – themselves. The Eight Pillars of Innovation. Google Reveals Its 9 Principles of Innovation. Ever wonder what makes the Google the holy grail of productivity and creativity?
There's no magic in the drinking water at the Mountain View, CA company. The tech giant draws from what Google's chief social evangelist, Gopi Kallayil, calls the nine core principles of innovation. Kallayil shared his insights at this week’s San Francisco Dreamforce summit. Here are the nine rules that any enterprise, large or small, can adopt to steal Google’s innovative culture. 1.
It can come from the top down as well as bottom up, and in the places you least expect. The 9 Corporate Personality Types And How to Inspire Them to Innovate.