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Enterprise Innovation



How to increase supplier innovation
When customers collaborate with suppliers they can build trust, reduce relational stress, and increase innovation-related activities. 
  (2/2/2010)
Innovators share the lessons they've learned during 2009
In December 2009, I posed this question to InnovationTools readers: "What is the most important lesson you learned regarding innovation during 2009?" Here's what you had to say. One of the recurring themes is the idea that opportunities lurk in crisis. In other words, appears to be a good time to innovate. 
  (1/26/2010)
The critical role of trust in the innovation process
The innovation process requires considerable amounts of trust. The innovation process involves risk both for the firm running the process and employees participating in the process. Jeffrey Baumgartner outlines some practical ways to increase the level of trust, and therefore the level of innovation, in your firm. 
  (1/19/2010)
The innovative leader needs passion
To mobilize your workers to support innovation, you can't just tell them to be passionate. You must model passion every time you speak, instructs Paul Sloane. 
  (1/5/2010)
Allocate time for innovation
One of the most common barriers to innovation is lack of time. People are just too busy doing their day job to spend time trying new things. Here are some common-sense strategies to help your people to be creative, from Paul Sloane. 
  (12/14/2009)
Does your company have a process for nurturing ideas?
Ideas are just the front end of innovation. Without the back end of innovation – the capacity to effectively screen ideas, align them with strategy, allocate resources to them and manage them successfully toward commercialization – all of those light bulbs and eureka moments will never add up to much, warns Rowan Gibson. 
  (12/1/2009)

Archived Articles

Is your company's IP strategy crippling its open innovation?  12/1/2009  
If Innovation is so important, then why isn't everyone doing it? 11/24/2009  
The basics of open innovation 11/17/2009  
21 great ways to innovate 11/3/2009  
Innovation strategy: Matching what is possible with what is needed 10/28/2009  
How to align innovation with your corporate strategy 10/21/2009  
To nurture innovation, focus on what went right 10/21/2009  
Become a better manager (and innovator) by thinking like a designer  10/13/2009  
The legal side of open innovation 10/6/2009  
When no one wants to change: 6 questions that lower the defenses to improving innovation 10/6/2009  
The innovative leader vs. the command-and-control leader 9/30/2009  
Tips for generating innovative new product ideas from the electronics industry 9/21/2009  
Does your firm have an innovation czar? 9/15/2009  
To be more innovative, think like a venture capitalist 9/1/2009  
How to manage outside innovation  9/1/2009  
More innovation lessons from childhood: The 5 whys 8/18/2009  
How to develop a vision for innovation 8/10/2009  
How companies can transform the innovation process by embedding themselves in society 8/4/2009  
Collaborate to innovate: How leading firms use open innovation 7/21/2009  
Building a company’s innovation capital  7/14/2009  
Are you ready for open innovation? 7/14/2009  
Innovation lessons from past downturns 7/7/2009  
Motivated to innovate 7/7/2009  
To re-invent your company, reinvent yourself 6/23/2009  
Are too many ideas killing your innovation efforts? 6/16/2009  
Prospect theory, risk and innovation 6/10/2009  
An innovation lesson from childhood 6/2/2009  
Innovation strategy: How to make mass customization work  6/2/2009  
Innovation: Back to the basics 5/12/2009  
Necessity is the mother of sustainable innovation 5/5/2009  
How to make sense of weak signals  5/5/2009  
Innovation strategy: How to ask effective questions 4/21/2009  
Innovating on slender means 4/14/2009  
Rethinking the role of HR as the catalyst for sustainable innovation 3/31/2009  
Rapid prototyping technologies enhance innovation opportunities 3/17/2009  
Purpose-driven innovation: The key to soliciting high-quality employee ideas 3/10/2009  
Innovation strategy: Fight the fear of change 3/10/2009  
Innovation: Waiting for the world to catch up 3/3/2009  
7 strategies for innovating your way out of the recession 2/23/2009  
10 innovation lessons from The Economist magazine's Project Red Stripe 2/11/2009  
Innovation management: How to prioritize, filter and plan ideas  2/5/2009  
Be careful: Downsizing your workforce downsizes innovation, too 2/3/2009  
To survive a recession, focus on opportunity recognition 1/27/2009  
Innovators share the lessons they've learned during 2008 1/20/2009  
MySQL chief Marten Mickos talks about the dynamics of open-source innovation  1/6/2009  
Innovation strategy: What business are we in? 12/22/2008  
Innovation strategy: Thinking beyond positioning 12/2/2008  
The innovation 'war room' 11/25/2008  
Innovating in the 'perfect storm' 11/14/2008  
An inside view of IBM's Innovation Jam 11/4/2008  
To spur innovation, break down internal barriers 10/20/2008  
Utilizing consumer feedback for improvement and breakthrough innovation 10/14/2008  
Effective idea selection is critical to systematic innovation 9/29/2008  
To increase innovation, reduce fear 9/22/2008  
Innovation check-up: Is your company dying from root rot? 9/19/2008  
Bad attitudes can lead to good innovation - so hire some rebels 9/16/2008  
Building an effective framework for innovation 9/15/2008  
What's the small idea? 9/9/2008  
How to start a revolution by changing how we discuss ideas 9/4/2008  
The best strategies for dealing with disruptive innovation  8/29/2008  
Facing recession? Reductive innovation can help 7/29/2008  
Eight critical ingredients for successful corporate innovation 7/3/2008  
Predicting the future and focusing your innovation program 6/28/2008  
Why social networking is not innovation 6/26/2008  
To achieve radical innovation, break the unwritten ‘rules’ 6/25/2008  
How virtual customer environments help companies to innovate 5/23/2008  
How to evaluate ideas 5/18/2008  
Spur innovation by setting boundaries 4/18/2008  
Why statistics kill innovation 4/4/2008  
Where do successful innovations come from? 3/18/2008  
10 rules for creative teams 3/13/2008  
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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