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Nudist Camp of Thinking
Corporate innovation is often limited by unconscious preconditions we bring to the sessions. Our thinking and creativity is limited by our own approach to what we expect we are supposed to do in the company as well as by what we suspect the company is all about. We cannot change the whole company, its vision and strategy, in the brainstorming. But if we are unable to break the (...)
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The greatest innovation inhibitor
We've been recently looking at Nokia's struggle in changing their strategy and finding new alliance to compete in a changed environment. There are quite a few examples of companies that have been very successful in the past and are now struggling with their business. Some say it is just a normal cyclic nature of business and that's how life works. They conclude that nothing rem (...)
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Do you want your product to be unique and cool?
There are plenty of research available which claims that about 90% of the thinking of 5-6 years old children is creative. This includes creativity itself, alternative thinking and surprising ideas. The picture changes a bit when they get older. Namely the creativity of 9 years old children has decreased to 20%. When we reach 40 years of age, only 1% of our thoughts are creative (...)
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Strawberries and Champagne
(At least) Two strategy approaches are at the moment very much affecting the business life: sense of urgency vs. Blue Ocean
THE strategy guru everybody refers to is John Kotter. Especially his 8-Step Change Model has become the mantra of change management. The first step is to create Sense of Urgency.
That's basically what you usually hear, like just recently when Nok (...)
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Do you have an Innovation process?
If someone asked you if your company had an innovation process, you may say "Yes we have" - based on the fact that you may well have a very sophisticated process for managing R&D projects all the way from the idea through many stage-gates to the commercialization in the end.
OK, fine. Has it crossed your mind that no, you do not have an innovation process? Ye (...)
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