7 Steps for Building a Sustainable Innovation Process: Step 1 – Align with Your Organization’s Goals

November 11, 2015 By

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As we discussed in our last post, 7 Steps for Building a Sustainable Innovation Process, innovation is essential to the sustained success of your organization.  You can achieve sustainable innovation through a strong Innovation Initiative.

Why is this important? Implementing a sustainable innovation process can help you avoid the vagaries of the traditional “hit-or-miss” innovation. This will help you break away from your competitors, and achieve or grow your market leadership.

In this blog post we will discuss Step 1: Align with your organization’s goals…

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Top Innovation Blog Posts: Week of September 28, 2015

October 2, 2015 By

Top IM Blog Posts (seafoam green)Looking for some great reads on Innovation? Here is a roundup of the top blog posts I read this week. I hope you find them helpful!

1. From Startup to Maturity: How to Un-Kill Creativity: Yoram Solomon explains how to bring startup creativity back to your mature organization.

2. Innovation is How We Adapt to Change To flourish and grow, we need to innovate: Tim Kastelle shows that a lack of innovation limits an organizations ability to change.

3. 5 Traits that Make a Good Leader: In this article, Brigg Patten lists the 5 traits that make a good leader. How can you apply these characteristics to your innovation leadership?

 

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Top Innovation Blog Posts: Week of April 13, 2015

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Top IM Blog Posts (yellow/green)Looking for some great reads on Innovation? Here is a roundup of the top blog posts I read this week. I hope you find them helpful!

1. Do Work Worth Doing: In this post, Tim Kastelle discusses the difference between innovating things that people want vs making people want your innovation.

2. Innovation Strategy – 16 Keys for Innovating with Few Resources: Mike Brown goes through the Who, What, Where, When, Why, How of innovating with few or no resources.

3. Rules of the Garage: Idea Sandbox describes the spirit of Hewlett-Packard and the importance of using their spirit in your organization.

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Top Innovation Blog Posts: Week of March 30, 2015

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Top IM Blog Posts (yellow)-2Looking for some great reads on Innovation? Here is a roundup of the top blog posts I read this week. I hope you find them helpful!

1. The 10 Personas of a Really Effective Brainstorm Facilitator: The Heart of Innovation authors list the 10 personas that you will have to take on to spark more creativity.

2. Why Big Businesses Fail at Innovation: Jacqueline Zhou goes through the most common reasons that big business struggle with innovation and how to remedy those issues.

3. State Your Strategy In a Sentence: Matthew E. May informs readers the importance of, and how to write your innovation strategy in a clear sentence to prompt necessary questions.

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3 Basics Every Innovation Manager Should Know

April 2, 2015 By

back to basicsAre you currently managing the Innovation program at your organization, or will soon do so? There are a few basics that are important for every successful Innovation Manager to know & understand.

In this article, I cover 3 of those basics. Let us get started…

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