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In most organizations, there’s an incredible amount of talent everywhere, and often that talent is more connected to the marketplace and the world. There’s a clear and real role for senior leadership, but it’s not to have the ideas—it’s to create the framework for the ideas to exist.

Content: Quotation | Author: Tim Brown | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Creativity, Innovation

We have to rely both on analysis and synthesis. Analysis—taking complex things and studying and understanding them—is very useful for knowing how well something is going to work and how you might improve it or make it more efficient. It’s not very good for coming up with major new ideas. There we have to be able to synthesize many competing ideas or competing insights—even if … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Tim Brown | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Design, Innovation, Trends / Analysis

There’s another thing that organizations often miss: They assume that the things you go out and study should be the things that are right in the middle of the market, so they talk to customers who are in the middle of the bell curve about the products that the company already makes. That’s usually the least useful form of observation. The most useful is to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Tim Brown | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Innovation, Market Research

In recent years, many of the most significant corporate success stories have been because of IT innovations. Despite the gloomy economic mood, success stories like Amazon’s Kindle demonstrate that the value of IT innovation has not diminished. In fact, leading executives understand that IT innovation is a major factor for their companies’ bottom lines and future growth.

Content: Article | Source: Kearney | Subjects: Innovation, IT / Technology / E-Business

Multinational corporations have a lot of good things going for them. They have built up a rich store of knowledge over the years, allowing their subsidiaries to share ideas and best practices in ways that smaller companies can only dream of. They also exploit their vast global reach and on-the-ground knowledge to sniff out new concepts or products being used by rival companies in other … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: L. Felipe Monteiro | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior

Scott Wilson of Deloitte Research met with Eric von Hippel of MIT’s Sloan School of Management to find out how established companies are — or could be — managing in the face of the open innovation phenomenon.

Content: Thought Leader | Author: Eric von Hippel | Source: Deloitte Review | Subject: Innovation

Rajesh Chandy, Professor of Marketing and Tony and Maureen Wheeler Chair in Entrepreneurship discusses why managers need to focus on the future in order to help an organization remain innovative through difficult and prosperous times.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Rajesh Chandy | Source: London Business School | Subjects: Innovation, Management, Organizational Behavior

Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers — and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that tripled its stock price) appeared to be struggling. [Hat tip to Brad Feld]

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Simon Sinek | Source: TED Conferences LLC | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

This report summarizes the findings of BCG’s latest annual global survey on corporate innovation. Topics covered include objectives, tactics, and perceived strengths and weaknesses. The report concludes with thoughts on how companies can improve their return on innovation spending and long-term competitive position.

Content: Related Content | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subject: Innovation

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When Hugh MacLeod was a struggling young copywriter, living in a YMCA, he started to doodle on the backs of business cards while sitting at a bar. Those cartoons eventually led to a popular blog – gapingvoid.com – and a reputation for pithy insight and humor, in both words and pictures.

MacLeod has opinions on everything from marketing to the meaning of life, but one of … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Hugh MacLeod | Subjects: Innovation, Personal Development

MacLeod, an advertising executive and popular blogger with a flair for the creative, gives his 26 tried-and-true tips for being truly creative. Each point illustrated by a cartoon drawn by the author himself.

Content: Article | Author: Hugh MacLeod | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Innovation, Personal Development

Executives say innovation is very important, but their companies’ approach to it is often informal, and leaders lack confidence in their innovation decisions. Top managers and other professionals agree that the biggest challenge is talent but disagree on why. Nonetheless, executives agree on some steps to improve innovation.

Content: Article | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Innovation

One way to stimulate a creative mindset is to avoid the typical focus of organizations on what is and to ask, instead, what if questions. Doing this regularly tests your ability to see things anew.

Content: Quotation | Author: Patrick Harris | Source: Global Focus | Subjects: Creativity, Innovation

A recent McKinsey Global Survey shows that companies are satisfied, overall, with their use of metrics to assess innovation portfolios – though many findings suggest that they shouldn’t be. The companies that get the highest returns from innovation do use metrics well; these organizations tend to assess innovation more comprehensively than the others.

Content: Article | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Best Practices, Innovation

We all want breakthroughs; it’s just that we can’t know exactly which of the bold new ideas will break through. It’s is also hard to get traction for ideas that are so far ahead of their times that the infrastructure or human habits do not yet support them.

As many technology companies have seen to their peril, you can leap much too far into the future … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subject: Innovation

The important thing is that over time, scientific progress transforms things that used to have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode down to the pattern-recognition space; and from pattern recognition into the rules-based mode. This is the mechanism by which less-trained people are enabled to do more sophisticated things. This is always the way disruption happens. It enables a larger population of less-experienced … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Clayton M. Christensen | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, Innovation, IT / Technology / E-Business

It has long been assumed that new product innovations are typically developed by product manufacturers, an assumption that has inevitably had a major impact on innovation-related research and activities ranging from how firms organize their research and development to how governments measure innovation. In this synthesis of his seminal research, von Hippel challenges that basic assumption and demonstrates that innovation occurs in different places in … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Eric von Hippel | Subject: Innovation

Of course, innovations are exceptions because the system is built for something else; the system is built for perpetuation, control, and efficiency…To encourage innovation, to create a real constituency for What Could Be, companies need to unleash ideas, passion, and commitment across the company. We have to move from innovations as exceptions; move beyond innovation as a specific role or structure, beyond innovation as a … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Gary Hamel | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Innovation

A new sense of direction doesn’t come from a few smart people, who have all been in the company for 20 years, getting together and thinking about it. You have to dramatically increase the strategic variety that’s there, create thousands of new ideas out of which you can look for new themes and directions. And then the role of top management is to be the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Gary Hamel | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Innovation, Management, Organizational Behavior