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Innovation must reads of the week: How to find the best innovators in your company

Why we often can’t self-disrupt. #innovation #innovate #pureinsight bit.ly/ZfB0Rf — Paul Hobcraft (@Paul4innovating) March 21, 2013 How To Really Measure a Company’s Innovation Prowess s.hbr.org/Y1PKYi — Harvard Biz Review (@HarvardBiz) March 21, 2013   Who should drive #business #innovation? Is it the #CEO, #CMO, #CIO, or the Innovation Officer? fastcompany.com/node/3007152 — Faisal Hoque (@faisal_hoque) March [...]

What is the most important innovation skill I should practice?

This the eighteenth of a series of weekly posts where I will answer a few common questions about innovation. Please feel free to add your own response. Also, if you have any questions you think we should discuss, let me know. On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to interview the authors of The Innovators DNA. [...]

Failure isn’t the goal for innovation

What if you could predict with certainty that people will love your new product or service? What if there was a huge scoreboard that would tell you that a massive amount of people will like what you are cooking up before the expensive launch? Business owners, and managers, tell me that they would love to [...]

Innovation must reads of the week: The Right Ideas in All the Wrong Places

This post from @andrewhargadon is right on the money: #Innovation, #Strategy, and your Innovation Strategy – bit.ly/XcXPFI — Ralph-Christian Ohr (@ralph_ohr) March 15, 2013 RT @sniukas: The Right Ideas in All the Wrong Places via @stratandbiz buzz.mw/-GLu_y #innovation — strategy+business (@stratandbiz) March 14, 2013   Interesting:Is The ‘Innovator’s Dilemma’ About To Get Disrupted By ‘Big [...]

10 ways leaders can ignite innovation

Here is a short article I wrote for a Mexican Business Magazine that will be published in a few weeks. What would happen if your company could innovate consistently? This is a worthy challenge, and, one not many can meet. But, if you have the will and drive, you will. Innovation is the only source [...]

Innovation must reads of the week: How to be the ‘disrupter’ and not the ‘disrupted’

New blog post: Strategy Outside the Zone of Mediocrity by Kevin Hendry buff.ly/XXCgZI — Tim Kastelle (@timkastelle) March 7, 2013 MIT Sloan’s Michael Schrage: Invest in Your Customers More Than Your Brand – @harvardbiz blogs.hbr.org/schrage/2013/0… — MITSloan ExecEd (@MITSloanExecEd) February 26, 2013 10 Things Every Leader Should Challenge – my latest column on @forbes: onforb.es/Zf3gr2#Leadership [...]

Anyone can innovate, but not everyone can

Yes, anyone can. But now everyone can. Here’s why… It is very simple. First of all, to innovate, you need skill combined with will. The skills needed are very straight forward, to begin you need to identify a problem, understand it and then have access to people and information that can help you solve the [...]