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Innovation Front End: January 2012
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Ideas, stories, and practices for driving growth through innovation. Friday, January 27, 2012. Eight Foundations for the Front End of Innovation. How do you know if you have a good front-end of innovation? You’re generating lots of ideas. There’s a steady stream of great concepts coming out that mirror your strategic intent. The organization is energized by each concept’s potential and is motivated to drive effective implementation. A good front-end should help the organization achieve these outcomes.
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Innovation Front End: Creative Destruction: Why Microsoft Can't Innovate Part 1
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Ideas, stories, and practices for driving growth through innovation. Friday, February 26, 2010. Creative Destruction: Why Microsoft Can't Innovate Part 1. If you’re wondering why Microsoft is no longer bringing us the future like it once did, read the Dick Brass op-ed, “ Microsoft’s Creative Destruction. 8221; in the February 4th New York Times. It’s a good question. Why isn’t Microsoft coming out with breakthrough innovations? Brass gives us part of the answer. Microsoft had a tablet in its pipeline alm...
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Innovation Front End: Ideation tip #1 - “How to” turn negative thinking into positive energy
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Ideas, stories, and practices for driving growth through innovation. Tuesday, March 23, 2010. Ideation tip #1 - “How to” turn negative thinking into positive energy. So while I wouldn't argue the economics, I did take issue with the speaker’s second point, which was that you don't have to worry about. Someone disrupting your online ideation session with comments like, “that will never work here,” or generally being negative and sapping the energy out of the group. The facilitator works with the team lead...
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Innovation Front End: June 2012
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Ideas, stories, and practices for driving growth through innovation. Tuesday, June 26, 2012. Beyond Tilting at Windmills. Breaking the “quick fix” innovation cycle through technology discovery. Tight budgets, limited time frames, reduced headcount, quick to market. Pressures – all are part of the new R&D normal; especially post the great recession. Finding quick answers to today's burning performance problem is systemic and fueled by management's demand for instant reporting. Technology rather than consi...
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Innovation Front End: The Internet of Things – Disruptive Technologies that will Transform our Lives
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Ideas, stories, and practices for driving growth through innovation. Tuesday, February 9, 2010. The Internet of Things – Disruptive Technologies that will Transform our Lives. A few years ago, I visited a commercial printing firm in the United Kingdom to conduct a Voice of the Customer site visit. While interviewing a senior executive, I introduced the topic of emerging technologies and the future of the “printed piece,” and started to listen. According to the National Intelligence Council. Vehicles will...
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Innovation Front End: Creative Destruction: Why Microsoft Can’t Innovate Part 2
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Ideas, stories, and practices for driving growth through innovation. Friday, February 26, 2010. Creative Destruction: Why Microsoft Can’t Innovate Part 2. So, how do you organize your company for innovation? You need to match the organizational structure to the innovation strategy. Microsoft failed to do that, and that was a big part of the problem. Let’s take a look at the company’s lifecycle. Strategic Intent: Incremental or Breakthrough? A key question corporate innovators need to ask is how to nurtur...
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Innovation Front End: Eight Foundations for the Front End of Innovation
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Ideas, stories, and practices for driving growth through innovation. Friday, January 27, 2012. Eight Foundations for the Front End of Innovation. How do you know if you have a good front-end of innovation? You’re generating lots of ideas. There’s a steady stream of great concepts coming out that mirror your strategic intent. The organization is energized by each concept’s potential and is motivated to drive effective implementation. A good front-end should help the organization achieve these outcomes.
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Innovation Front End: August 2010
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Ideas, stories, and practices for driving growth through innovation. Tuesday, August 24, 2010. Too Old to Innovate? Newsweek recently reported in their article, “ The Golden Age of Innovation. 8221; that “despite stereotypes of entrepreneurs as fresh-faced youngsters, new research has found that older workers are more likely to innovate than their under-35 counterparts.” Here are a few highlights:. The highest rate of entrepreneurship in the U.S. is in the 55-64 age group. Even within established compani...
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Innovation Front End: February 2010
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Ideas, stories, and practices for driving growth through innovation. Friday, February 26, 2010. Creative Destruction: Why Microsoft Can't Innovate Part 1. If you’re wondering why Microsoft is no longer bringing us the future like it once did, read the Dick Brass op-ed, “ Microsoft’s Creative Destruction. 8221; in the February 4th New York Times. It’s a good question. Why isn’t Microsoft coming out with breakthrough innovations? Brass gives us part of the answer. Microsoft had a tablet in its pipeline alm...