Innovate How You Get Consumer Insights
If you want new customer insights, change how you ask questions. Many enterprises rely on focus groups. For a better perspective of what propels customers to buy or seek out a product or service, ask...
View ArticleInnovation: Beyond Problem-Solving
Don’t you hate it when you are dealing with some critical personal problem that seems to be of gargantuan proportions and your “friend” tells you that it is really an opportunity for you? That got me...
View ArticleThe Power Of Expectations And Personal Growth
Expectation breeds inspiration in the workplace. When the expectation is to do better, be better, create better, team members become inspired to meet those expectations. A great example is Steve Jobs....
View ArticleLeaders can create a creative culture
The thing about personal growth is it’s personal. Inspiring it in others can be a tricky proposition, but there are things you can do as a manger to foster an innovative spirit in your team members....
View ArticleStage Gates: Friend or Foe?
Recently, I was traveling to an important meeting in Boston and had a critical flight connection to make in Washington, DC. If I missed that connection, I would miss my meeting. To my delight, our...
View ArticleConstructive Collaboration
It’s not true that “every idea is a good idea.” Of the tens of thousands of ideas that I have seen come out of brainstorming sessions, a majority of them are what most people would consider bad ideas....
View ArticlePermission for Creativity in the Workplace
“…and outside of my job, I’m a professional clown.” We were doing a standard round of introductions in a training course I was running a couple of days ago when one gentleman revealed to the group...
View ArticleInnovation: the World of Creative Wisdom
“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” came up in a conversation I was having recently. This is an old proverb passed down for many generations about the choice between what you have and what...
View ArticleCulture of Efficiency or Innovation?
My wife mentioned to me the other day that a piece of trim had broken in one of our closets and asked if I could fix it. It is a job that I have done a number of times before. So, using the tools I...
View ArticleInnovation: Seeing the Invisible
Innovating is not the same as problem solving. When you solve a problem, you start with something visible and negative, and try to find a way to make it go away. We like problems because we can see...
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