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Innovation Mindset

Kodak : Would Innovation Performance Measures Have Helped?

3rd Feb 2012

As Kodak files for Chapter 11 Protection so that it can avoid bankruptcy while it restructures, the accusations fly.

“Too slow to change!”

Of course they were. Kodak is a company, companies are made up of people… and most people don’t like change – especially far-reaching change.

Open-mindedness : A Key Trait for Successful Innovators

15th May 2011

What are the important personal qualities and character traits that an innovation manager should have?

The list is potentially a long one - future orientation, interest in novelty, leadership, resilience and so on. However, if I were pushed to determine the single most important quality, I would say open-mindedness.

The Innovation Vision Of The Lone Entrepreneur.

18th Mar 2011

Many markets appear saturated these days. Analysis may reveal that established players dominate and that the required marketing spend to compete presents a high barrier to entry. It’s enough to put off many potential entrants.

But look again and you may be able to see such markets with ‘fresh eyes’. You might be able to spot the traditional business model, predictable marketing strategy and well worn distribution strategy...and find scope to innovate.

Innovation Mindset: What Really Stops You From Innovating?

12th Nov 2010

This year’s winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics made their breakthrough discovery of super thin flakes of carbon while ‘mucking about’ in their lab. This continues a long list of discoveries, insights and inventions from over the years that have been attributed to ‘organisational slack’, or employees having the time and space to pursue their own areas of interest creatively. Have you got enough ‘slack’ in your organisation to innovate? Or is it something else that’s stopping you from innovating?

Innovation : Learning From Failure.

13th Sep 2010

Most of us at some stage have been encouraged to ‘reframe’ failure as learning or feedback. But to what extent do individuals, teams and organisations actually do this?

Now, new research from the University of Colorado Denver Business School confirms that we can grow our ability to innovate through learning from our failures.

Measuring Innovation part two : How Innovation Coaching Can Help.

9th Mar 2010

Last month we outlined how innovation metrics and the innovation audit can play a key role in evaluating innovation performance.

We also touched on how intrinsic motivation or passion is one of the key factors that influences innovation success, and how innovation metrics are not generally very good at measuring it.

This month we consider the subject of innovation coaching, what it is and the key role it can play in helping to build levels of intrinsic motivation among individuals and teams.