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Pushing Back on The Chronic Innovation Critics
Pushing Back on The Chronic Innovation Critics
Chronic innovation critics are people and processes that kill new ideas before they can thrive. They prevent you from trying new things and learning from failures. The criticisms may result in your organization getting stuck in its current state. Innovation critics love to point out why an idea will fail. These people are often the…
Thomas Edison inventing and discovering innovations
Are Innovations Invented or Discovered?
Are innovations invented or discovered? We have debated this question for many years. Some people believe innovations are inventions, while others believe they are discoveries. With people's growing curiosity to understand how to be more creative, more innovative, there is a strong desire to learn the answer to this question. To understand if innovations are…
innovation arms race is not really a race
Innovation Arms Race: The Invisible Risk
The innovation arms race is the race to be the most innovative company in the world. It's a competition where the prize is market share, customers, and profits. And the cost of entry is high. This is a competition where there is no finish line. To compete, companies must invest heavily in R&D. But not…
Innovation Storytelling
How to Use Innovation Storytelling
Innovation storytelling helps capture people’s attention and connect with them on an emotional level. This connection allows you to get your message across in a way that is both memorable and meaningful, leading to lasting change. Storytelling can help build an innovation culture in an organization, inspiring people to ideate and take action. Additionally, it can help create…
thinking skills
The Thinking Skills Needed For Success
How often do we step back and think about how we think? Probably not often enough. However, understanding how we think is important if we want to improve the quality of our ideas and, as a result, our innovations. Periodically throughout my career, I have benefited from reflecting on how I think. It's important for…
Barrier to Innovation
What is the Biggest Barrier to Innovation?
This episode is a commencement speech I virtually gave on the biggest barrier to innovation. The  Biggest Barrier to Innovation Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous and likely to cause pain or a threat. For humans, fear tends to build on itself. Fear stands for false evidence that…
Innovation Strategy
You Need an Innovation Strategy
An innovation strategy is a plan outlining how a business will create, develop, and bring new products or services to market to gain a competitive advantage. A strategy guides the efforts of individual employees or entire teams and tailored to the organization's unique needs. It also helps ensure the organizations' innovation initiatives remain competitive and relevant. Businesses without…
Innovation Agency
Why Do Organizations Hire An Innovation Agency?
Let's continue our series about the innovation agency and explore why organizations hire them. Hire an Innovation Agency To help with creative problem-solving. An innovation agency can help organizations find new solutions to their problems. These agencies bring new perspectives and stimulate creativity, allowing companies to overcome roadblocks and generate new ideas. To help with…
Innovation Agency
What Is An Innovation Agency?
Let us explore what an innovation agency is and how it can help bring you more success in the challenging innovation process. Why Hire An Innovation Agency? Innovation Agency is a term created to distinguish agencies that specialize in innovation from the agencies such as advertising, design, marketing, and PR agencies. An innovation agency specializes in helping…
dropping thru as a result of a failure of imagination
(Preparing For) A Failure of Imagination
With organizational failures, the imagination is often at fault. We can't imagine things going wrong, so we don't plan for them. Organizations can't imagine that their employees would do something unethical, so they don't have policies in place to prevent it. Owners can't imagine that a natural disaster could destroy their business, so they don't…

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