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At Creative Realities, we have identified five essentials for innovation. These are attitudes and behaviors that will make even the best-planned and best-executed innovation processes easier to pursue. In our experience, no innovation effort can reach its full potential without these five innovation essentials:
Topics: Learning From Failure, Educated Gut, Innovation, Cross Functional Teams, Pursuit of Ideas, Essentials for Innovation
Where do ideas come from? I recently came across this fascinating interview from Wired Magazine in which authors Keven Kelly and Steven Johnson discuss the "natural history" of innovation and technology. Together, Kelly and Johnson provide what I can only describe as an evolutionary/biological/anthropological perspective on the history of new ideas. I highly reccomend reading the entire article, but here are a few key insights to keep in mind in any pursuit of innovation.
Topics: Chris Dolan, Core Competencies, Innovation, Collaboration, connection making
Topics: Clay Maxwell, Innovation, innovation consulting, breakthrough, new product development
Understanding what's working and what's not, to improve and refine your creative thinking and to solve problems.
Topics: critical ideation skills, creative problem solving skills, developmental thinking
Topics: Mark Sebell, Bat and Bow, Corporate Rain Dance, Leadership-Empowerment Fable
Last night on Monday Night Football, the much-hyped Jets got thumped by the Ravens. This came after an offseason in which the team acquired several marquee players, were in the news for all the wrong reasons, allowed HBO's Hard Knocks cameras into their training camp, and entered the season among the favorites to win the Super Bowl. Much of the attention surrounding the Jets stemmed from the swagger and confidence they exuded as they publicly announced their goal was to win the Super Bowl. What can their Monday night let down teach us about innovation? I am going to indulge in a little Tuesday Morning Quarterbacking and explore 5 lessons the Jets experience can teach us about setting a strategic roadmap for an innovation team.
Topics: Innovation Roadmap, Chris Dolan, Strategic Goals
Topics: Jay Terwilliger, Innovation, leadership, strategic innovation, strategy, growth, implementation
Making mental links between things that are not normally or have not previously been recognized as the source of a new idea
A core skill of brainstorming and creative-problem solving is learning how to make connections; those "a-ha" moments when two or more seemingly unrelated, even irrelevant signals in the brain suddenly come together to create a powerful new insight, idea, or conclusion. Connections almost always require a lot of developmental work to make them real, but the core of the idea/solution is embedded in the connection.
Topics: critical ideation skills, creative problem solving skills, connection making
Topics: Jay Terwilliger, breakthrough innovation, approximate thinking, connection making, developmental thinking
