Supporting innovative ideas
“We don’t put any bureaucratic tape around ideas”, “We give people the opportunity to take action”, “Anyone can bring up any idea […]
Tag: Idea generation
How to follow up after an idea campaign?
You launched an idea campaign. The results were fantastic. Lots of buzz around innovation and a boatload of creative energy floating around. […]
Innovation campaigns; The good, bad and ugly
Innovation campaigns are popular. They are an excellent way to get your organization engaged in innovation activities. The yield in numbers of […]
An Innovation Fest for Summer Interns
How do you give your interns a meaningful experience in the brief period that they are part of your organization? Have you […]
The Life of an Idea
What happens with an idea, after it pops up in your head? You think about it. You read about it. Do some […]
Organizing for Innovation: A Balancing Act
When in charge of organizing innovation in a professional service organization, you have the challenging task of both catalyzing innovation and overseeing the innovation process. Keeping these two objectives in play can be a strenuous balancing act, but it does not have to be.
Innovation Management Dos and Don’ts
There are many names for the Innovation Management function in professional service firms. It can be identified as new business development or quality improvement, or hidden in the marketing department. How to make sure the innovation function—whatever it is called—enables innovation to thrive in your organization?
How Professionals Innovate
Engineers, lawyers, clinicians, educators and many more, are all professionals. Most had to study for years to get into these professions. Now that you are in, how do you contribute to advancing your profession? How do you innovate?
Imagineering
Imagineering is the design and development arm of the Walt Disney Company. It is the methodology used to create the magic in each Disney theme park and kingdom worldwide. Although few professionals will consider their job entertaining, there are a few lessons to be learned from the Imagineering concept.
Idea Contests
The Food and Drug Administration offers $500,000 for the best breakthrough idea it receives for detecting salmonella on fresh produce. Including coaching for the five finalists. The Washington Post called it “The Voice, but then for science geeks”. Are Idea Contests indeed tapping into the wisdom of crowds, or is this another fad of groupthink?
Scary Ideas
This add of GE says it all. Ideas are scary, messy, and fragile, but under the proper care, they become something beautiful.
Innovating in Collaboration
How convenient would it be to have someone else innovate on your behalf? You point out the issue that needs to be resolved or improved, and someone else will do the work and come up with a new product, service that will do exactly what you asked for. Then you only have to …, well what parts of the process would you still have to do?