Innovation Through Design Thinking | MIT World Networked Insights — About Us Jim Harris Founder and CEO, The Wall Street Journal Office Network Mr. Harris has a 25-year track record of achievement in consulting, brand management, and integrated marketing communications. During his career, Jim has also served as an advisor to several leading technology companies including Google. Home 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?
NewEdge Market Research and Strategy Startup Professionals Musings Innovation; Innovator's DNA A major new study has highlighted the key skills that innovative and creative entrepreneurs need to develop. According to Hal Gregersen, an INSEAD professor and co-author of a six-year-long study into disruptive innovation involving some 3,500 executives, there are five 'discovery' skills you need but, he says, you don't have to be 'great in everything. A major new study involving some 3,500 executives has highlighted the key skills that innovative and creative entrepreneurs need to develop. The six-year-long research into disruptive innovation by INSEAD professor Hal Gregersen, Jeffrey Dyer of Brigham Young University and Clayton Christensen of Harvard, outlines five 'discovery' skills you need. But, says Gregersen, you don’t have to be ‘great in everything.’ Some well-known business leaders such as Apple’s Steve Jobs and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos rely on their own particular strengths since innovative entrepreneurs rarely excel at all five discovery skills. The five key discovery skills
Sheep: Home