I must say, I’m highly experimental. So when I saw the tweet below, I was a little skeptical about the content.
5 ways to champion learning in your organization
December 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
How do leaders go about creating an environment for innovation and innovative thinking? In five ways:
Insights and steps for making innovation a larger part of your culture
December 10, 2013 By 3 Comments
Partnership, visibility, and relevance: critical components to driving innovation #innovationcafe — Spigit (@Spigit) December 4, 2013 Innovation can be taught. That is a given. But, just like everything else that matters, it takes work.
Customers don’t care if you’re innovative or not
December 9, 2013 By 1 Comment
They don’t care about your business strategy, your marketing strategy, your supply chain, your approach to human resources; nothing. They also don’t care about your latest innovation program. And, unless you’re Apple, they don’t care about your latest product extension. Seriously, they don’t. A recent post on the Wall Street Journal has pretty much put [...]
Innovation What Not To Do: Asking the two deadliest words in business
December 4, 2013 By 1 Comment
A few days ago I mentioned that I had been receiving a lot of inquiries about developing an innovation capability, cultural development, and why this matters to avoid systemic failure. My post touched upon feedback as the shortest path to innovation and how people need it to learn. This is the essence of agility, the [...]
What innovation and customer loyalty have in common
December 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Customer loyalty. Oh my, today it is as important as the topic of innovation. Customer loyalty is the key to profitability. The reason is simple: It costs more to acquire a new customer than to keep a current one. Without customer loyalty, customers leave. I’ve had the opportunity to work with companies of all sizes, [...]
The shortest path to innovation
November 27, 2013 By 3 Comments
In the past week I’ve had some interesting conversations with colleagues, friends and random people about culture and innovation capability. There are a couple of themes that have come up, one of which I’ll touch on here: feedback as it relates to innovation. First, let’s put one thing on the table: there is no innovation [...]
