Innovation in the News

Shifting from occasional to relentless innovation

Innovate on Purpose (January 31, 2012) - While many firms may need to make a switch from sporadic or occasional innovation, innovators need to provide a roadmap. Here are six factors that must change in order to support this transition.

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How Scenario Planning Can Help You Innovate Better

InnovationManagement.se (February 1, 2012) - In these uncertain times, are you ready to take advantage of the opportunities that will arise in the next few years, or are you paralyzed by indecision? Scenario thinking can help you to be part of the first group.

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How to Build Your Innovation Skills, and Why You Need to Do So Now

InnovationManagement.se (January 30, 2012) - In the 21st century economy, having strong innovation skills is critical. This year, instead of the proverbial New Year's resolution to lose weight or get a new job, why not commit to building your innovation ability? This article discusses the urgency for building your innovation skills, and outlines some simple and effective ways for doing it.

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Social Product Innovation Predictions for 2012 and Beyond

InnovationManagement.se (January 26, 2012) - It's clear that social media has had a huge impact on our personal and professional lives. What predictions can we make for the use of social media and related social technologies to improve product innovation?

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How Great Leaders Create Innovation by Breaking Away

PhilGerbyshak.com (January 30, 2012) - Breaking Away by Jane Stevenson and Bilal Kaafarani is a fantastic book about how great leaders create innovation, and it's filled with tips on how your business can be more innovative without breaking the bank. What follows are some questions that can help your business be more innovative and learn from all the research the authors did for this book.

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How to Encourage Ideas: The Magic Sentence

Yahoo Voices (January 10, 2011) - The next time someone comes to you with a wacky, half-formed idea which you can immediately see is riddled with faults, bite your tongue and say the following.

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Mentors: A Young Entrepreneur's Secret Weapon

Entrepreneur.com (January 26, 2012) - You need a good idea. Startup cash can make a real difference. Business experience and savvy also help, of course. But to take advantage of the most powerful weapon an entrepreneur can have, find a mentor. A good mentor helps you think through a business idea, suggests ways to generate that startup capital and provides the experience and savvy you're missing.

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Innovation's Plateaus: Lessons Learned From Wikipedia

Forbes.com (January 30, 2012) - Our mental models play a big role in the pace of innovation. Organizations that breach mental barriers first often outmaneuver their competitors.

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Insight from Davos: How Global Thought Leaders Talk About Innovation

Forbes.com (January 28, 2012) - The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, or Davos, rounds out its last full day of sessions today in Davos, Switzerland. For the last three days, 2,500 of the world's leaders convened to discuss global poverty, political upheaval, climate change and whatever else keeps them up at night. The term that is mentioned in the agenda more than any other this year is innovation.

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Jazz as an inspirational metaphor for innovation: John Kao

New York Times (January 26, 2012) - IN the hunt for innovation, that elusive path to economic growth and corporate prosperity, try a little jazz as an inspirational metaphor. In business as in jazz, the tension between training and improvisation can result in great new works, says John Kao, innovation adviser to corporations and governments. Jazz, Mr. Kao says, demonstrates some of the tensions in innovation, between training and discipline on one side and improvised creativity on the other.

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