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Enterprise Innovation



Spur innovation by setting boundaries
To succeed, companies need to go beyond isolated wins and develop the capabilities to repeatedly disarm disruptive threats and seize new growth opportunities. How can companies do this? They must begin by planning for innovation well before they need to. 
  (4/18/2008)
Why statistics kill innovation
Which will help your business to be more successful: statistics or probability? If you want to play it safe, use statistics. If you want to win big, use probability, says author Stephen Shapiro. 
  (4/4/2008)
Where do successful innovations come from?
To understand how breakthroughs in innovation arise, managers first need to be aware of the different factors that shape the highly skewed distribution of creativity. 
  (3/18/2008)
10 rules for creative teams
Under the right circumstances, a team can be significantly more creative than any individual team member and is often better able to push creative ideas through the implementation process so that they may become innovations. Here are ten quick rules for ensuring your teams are effective creative teams from Jeffrey Baumgartner. 
  (3/13/2008)

Archived Articles

Ten top tips for the innovative leader 3/7/2008  
A process for continuous innovation and controlled chaos 2/22/2008  
Opening up innovation at P&G 1/18/2008  
Overcoming customer resistance to innovation 1/10/2008  
Finding the right job for your product reveals innovation opportunities 12/14/2007  
Set drastic expectations for growth, innovation 11/27/2007  
Five mistakes companies make when measuring innovation 11/15/2007  
When to kill an idea 10/18/2007  
Innovation strategy: Battlefield lessons for business leaders 9/27/2007  
Back to the garden: An 8-step process for creating a culture of innovation 9/12/2007  
New insights into measuring the culture of innovation 9/6/2007  
Creating a culture of innovation 9/5/2007  
Being innovative in a big company 8/8/2007  
Framework innovation and detail innovation 6/27/2007  
The innovative leader: Be an arsonist and a fire fighter 5/25/2007  
Harnessing the energy of change champions 5/16/2007  
How to avoid 'boomerang innovation' 2/21/2007  
Leverage disruptive innovation by following TRIZ principles 1/18/2007  
To identify opportunities for innovation, focus on the 'customer chain' 12/8/2006  
Put your best people on innovation 12/7/2006  
A process for continuous innovation is built on a service ethic 11/28/2006  
Don’t be a 'one-innovation wonder' 11/28/2006  
Embracing innovation 10/24/2006  
Open innovation sounds good, but how can scientists apply it in the lab? 10/12/2006  
Questioning: An underutilized innovation strategy 10/11/2006  
Cultivating idea stakeholders 8/23/2006  
How to foster innovation using corporate imagination exercises 7/19/2006  
Innovation and learning through successful failures 7/12/2006  
The greening of innovation... and profit 6/21/2006  
Innovation by subtraction 5/24/2006  
Innovation strategy: Are your ideas audacious enough? 5/16/2006  
Thinking the unthinkable 4/12/2006  
Innovating to benefit your company - and your employees 3/24/2006  
How strong is your idea capital? 2/22/2006  
The manager as idea coach 12/28/2005  
The great innovation lie 12/7/2005  
Need breakthrough innovation? Resist the temptation to 'build a better mousetrap' 11/16/2005  
Who is crushing creativity? 10/18/2005  
How to connect corporate objectives and investment in innovation 10/5/2005  
Strategies for evaluating radical innovations 9/22/2005  
Quality and creativity: Enemies or allies? 8/29/2005  
Lights, cameras, action: Innovation 'reality TV' style at Quill Corporation 8/22/2005  
A process for innovation planning 8/10/2005  
Putting the customer first in innovation 7/21/2005  
Brainstorming techniques for new product development 7/15/2005  
Innovation: A leadership issue 6/13/2005  
7 strategies for sustained innovation 6/9/2005  
Why a systems approach to innovation is critical 4/20/2005  
The power of principles in innovation 4/12/2005  
Permission to innovate 4/6/2005  
Innovation movement reaches critical mass 2/11/2005  
Empowering innovation 1/5/2005  
How to use TRIZ to bring clarity to the 'fuzzy front end' of innovation 12/9/2004  
The ten personas of a brainstorm facilitator 11/23/2004  
Imagination: The number one tool for innovation and creativity 11/23/2004  
Failure is the mother of innovation 10/13/2004  
Six great ways to ruin a brainstorming session 8/23/2004  
Innovation strategy: Does your new product idea really solve a customer problem? 7/16/2004  
Innovation strategy: Who killed your business? 6/23/2004  
Show me the numbers: A look at innovation metrics 6/23/2004  
'Golden nuggets' and 'fool’s gold' from the Front End of Innovation Conference 6/1/2004  
Innovation strategy: Is ROI the wrong question? 4/30/2004  
Innovation strategy: The care and feeding of idea practitioners 3/25/2004  
Innovation strategy: To uncover great ideas, generate a large quantity of them 3/9/2004  
Spark your creativity to boost your company's bottom line 2/26/2004  
American manufacturers: It's time to innovate or evaporate 2/5/2004  
Innovation spectrum: The trouble with tribbles 1/8/2004  
Ten great ways to crush creativity 1/6/2004  
How to survive and make an impact as an innovation champion 11/17/2003  
What is TRIZ and how can it be used in problem solving or brainstorming? 10/20/2003  
World Creative Forum explores key questions about creativity in business 10/10/2003  
Presenting Innovation in a Way That Gets to 'Yes' 10/2/2003  
Selling your ideas: A critical executive skill 7/15/2003  
Business Weblogs help companies collaborate, share ideas 3/31/2003  
Seven strategies for generating business ideas 3/11/2003  
Innovation: Creating the best practices of tomorrow 3/11/2003  
Sparking growth systematically: How to turn innovation into a discipline 2/12/2003  
Innovation vanguard firms show the way to beating the downturn 2/10/2003  

 

 
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RECOMMENDED READING

Here are some of the best books on business innovation available today, which should be on every entrepreneur's bookshelf:

Awake at the Wheel
by Mitch Ditkoff
Creativity Inc.: Building an Inventive Organization
by Jeff Mauzy and Richard Harriman
Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity
by John Kao
A-ha! 10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great Idea
by Jordan Ayan
 
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