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Monthly Archives: January 2012
You’re Unemployed, Now What?
A dear friend of mine wakes up today finding himself unemployed for the first time in his professional career. After more than 10 years of distinguished and oft-commended service with the same global company, historically poor profits have resulted in … Continue reading
A Philosophy Too Important Not to Share: Futures Mindset. Complete Chapter from Saving Innovation
An American legend, Kodak, has filed for bankruptcy. A key lesson from Saving Innovation details how to change the way employees think about problems by instituting a futures mindset. Could thinking with a futures mindset have saved Kodak? That’s too … Continue reading
How Kodak Bankruptcy Could Have Been Avoided by Using a Futures Mindset
With Kodak filing for bankruptcy business analysts will spend countless hours analyzing how the American corporate giant finds itself in this position. Few industries have changed as much as photography over the decades – scratch that – all industries change … Continue reading
Picking Appropriate Idea Generation Tool Depends on Idea Generation Goal
The following is an excerpt from Saving Innovation: There are countless tools and techniques to help you generate ideas and wading through them all to find the right one for your group and your challenge seems incredibly daunting. Like everything … Continue reading
Defining an Innovative Corporate Culture
The following is an excerpt from Saving Innovation: Remember how I defined culture: a core set of values that become fully integrated and regularly practiced as behaviors within an organization – core values, fully integrated, regularly practiced as behaviors. The … Continue reading
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Which is More Important to Innovation: Culture or Tools?
The following is an excerpt from Saving Innovation: Once a commitment to innovation has been made the natural inclination is to start grabbing for tools and holding brainstorming sessions and meetings to generate ideas. That seems reasonable enough. Tools generate … Continue reading
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How the iPod Indirectly Leads Companies to Abandon Innovation
The following is an excerpt from Saving Innovation: In the 1990’s and 2000’s, we all saw companies making billions of dollars thanks to incredibly innovative ideas. Businesses were enamored by the potential for astronomical economic returns from new products and … Continue reading
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The Conversation Which Led Me to Write Saving Innovation
An excerpt from Saving Innovation: The seminar went exactly as every other one I had taught recently: great energy, jokes, fun, ideas were generated and everyone enjoyed getting to know each other. For as much as I like to kid … Continue reading
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