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Innovation must reads of the week: Overcoming resistance to innovation

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Innovation must reads of the week: Overcoming resistance to innovation

Storified by Jorge Barba · Sat, Nov 17 2012 15:05:19

Overcoming resistance to #innovation http://innovateonpurpose.blogspot.com/2012/11/overcoming-resistance-to-innovation.html using Gleicher’s Formula. Most important, creating concrete steps toward a visionJeffrey Phillips
Is there a truth? The Truth about Innovation Culture http://shar.es/Gi2wG via @sharethis #innovation #innochat @innovatePaul Hobcraft
On finding inflection points for #innovation: http://trib.al/99PA6EFast Company
RT @julieanixter: The New 6Ps of Radical Innovation for Large Companies – #2 Potential – http://su.pr/5hO4gw – Kevin McFarthing #innovationKevin McFarthing
Gary Hamel: Are you really serious about innovation? | Management Innovation eXchange http://shar.es/Gbggr via @sharethisHolly G. Green

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What can innovators do to improve the chances they’ll encounter serendipity?

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This is the ninth 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.

Here is a question from yesterday’s #innochat about Serendipity and Innovation. People contributed some great answers, some of which I aggregated below.

My response: Let loose, discover, follow your nose not what people say, embrace chance in every single way. Adopt a “so what, let’s do it” mindset and see what happens. No holding back!

What can innovators do to improve the chances they’ll encounter serendipity?

Question two of yesterday’s Serendipity and Innovation #innochat weekly discussion

Storified by Jorge Barba · Thu, Nov 15 2012 18:37:15

A3: If everyone in the room looks at you with incredulity, stick with it. You could be on the edge of innovation. #innochatShelly Lucas
@jorgebarba frustration and roadblocks often lead to serendipity #innochatKevin McFarthing
Brilliant! "@CreativeSage: Yes, #intuition is very important: RT @InnovationFixer: Listen to the sixth sense – intuition #innochat"Sunil Malhotra
My view is that under the radar iteration of ideas is critical to serendipitous discovery. Lower the stakes! #innochatMatt Kingdon
RT @DrewCM: Another pattern of preparing for serendipity I see today is being open enough to witness it. Be still. Listen. Learn. #innochatCathryn Hrudicka
A3 – be open-minded, have a game plan but not cast in stone, look in the right places, listen to diverse inputs #innochatKevin McFarthing
RT @jmass: If you are curious, serendipity will find you. #innochat [great one!]Thierry de Baillon
RT @marcio_saito: Serendipity requires diversity. Parallel lines never cross. #innochatKellee O’Reilly
One of the best innovation tips I ever learned: Think Backwards. Here’s what I mean: http://bit.ly/WaTdnb #innochatJoe Stanganelli
“@mattkingdon: My view is that innovation is allergic to ‘overthink – it’s a doing not thinking sport #innochat”Brenda Johima

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crappy scissors

Uninnovation: Stuff that sucks is ripe for innovation

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Innovation is about fulfilling needs. And there are common products we use everyday that don’t completely fulfill those needs. Take the scissors in the picture above. They cost me $3 USD and they broke after 10 minutes of use.

No way to fix them because what held them together was a screw through a piece of plastic!

Maybe Office Depot made these scissors for the “less than ten minutes of use” market. Or maybe they didn’t care who or what they are going to be used for. Maybe the said “we don’t need to do 3 million hours of real world testing” to make sure they work under all circumstances like Jawbone did with Up.

Or maybe, like most, they’re not in it to make the best product out there. Which is probably true.…

Innovation must reads of the week: Change consumer behavior with these 5 levers

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Innovation must reads of the week: Change consumer behavior with these 5 levers

Storified by Jorge Barba · Sun, Nov 11 2012 12:01:44

How To Disrupt Yourself http://p.ost.im/p/dBhQGcGreg Satell
Great post by Julian Birkinshaw: Making #Innovation a Reality in Your Company http://buff.ly/XuatE8Tim Kastelle
Change Consumer Behavior with These 5 Levers http://s.hbr.org/SRKHqFHarvard Biz Review
How should companies co-create their future with customers? http://qr.ae/8eHEyArie Goldshlager
Hypotheses instead of requirements – RT @ericries: Enabling #Innovation using #LeanStartup http://ericri.es/UBSoOgRalph-Christian Ohr

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What question would you ask your company to spark innovative thinking?

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This is the eigth 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.

Via Quora: What are some of the first questions you would ask your employees and colleagues to spark innovative thinking, or positive change within and without the company?…

Innovation must reads of the week: The folly of trying to spend your way to innovativeness

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Innovation must reads of the week: The folly of trying to spend your way to innovativeness

Storified by Jorge Barba · Sat, Nov 03 2012 21:03:44

How Apple, Samsung, And Google Take Different Approaches To Innovation by @maxnisen http://read.bi/RAJNdRSAI
The folly of trying to spend your way to innovativeness http://onforb.es/U3F2Qc #imd_mitbill_fischer
What Are The Most Popular #Innovation Tools? Here Are The Results From Our Recent Survey. http://zite.to/V6YJXh via @zitePaul R. Williams
Great post by the always wonderful @nilofer Innovation Isn’t Tied to Size, but to Operating Rules http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/10/innovation_isnt_tied_to_size_b.htmlMark Truelson
The Five Cs of Opportunity Identification http://ow.ly/eOQDT by @ScottDAnthony – worth following!Stefan Lindegaard

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What are the big unanswered, but answerable, questions when it comes to innovation?

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This is the seventh 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.

Last week Michael Raynor, of Deloitte and author of  The Strategy Paradox, contacted me because he wanted to ask me a big question: What are the big unanswered, but answerable, questions when it comes to innovation? To answer this, he asked me to share three questions or topics which are unanswered but that are answerable when it comes to innovation.

Here’s my answer:…