Focusing on User Needs to Drive Innovation
There is no question that Google has brought us some great products – from Google Maps to You Tube and Chrome. They also continue to try to solve some very …
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Is Walmart About to Help Make the Smarthome Mainstream?
The recent launch of Apple’s HomeKit app as part of iOS10 and the success of Amazon’s Echo has put the news spotlight back on the smarthome. Perhaps the entrance of …
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Setting Up a Quick-Turn Innovation Team – Part 2
Part 2: Training, Tools and Support In the first blog post of this series we covered some basic things to consider when putting together a quick-turn innovation team to address …
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Setting Up a Quick Turn Innovation Team – Part 1
Part 1: Picking the Right People We love the innovation strategy work that we do and are big proponents of helping companies incorporate innovation into every part of the organization, …
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Top 10 Innovation Infusions: Conduct a Team Visioning Exercise
Our Top Ten Innovation Infusions are fun and effective actions you can use along with your other innovation efforts. Most are quick and easy, some require a little more planning, …
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Top 10 Innovation Infusions: Create an Online Innovation Campaign
Have you ever thought of crowdsourcing your innovation challenge? Creating an Online Innovation Campaign is a great way to engage employees in ideating – in a collaborative, online environment. Innovation Campaigns …
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Top 10 Innovation Infusions: Build a Team Journey Line
We’ve pulled together 10 tips to help company’s jump start innovation that we would like to share with our colleagues to help as they explore new innovation efforts. These tips …
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IBM and Design Thinking
Fast Company hosted a huge Innovation Festival this past November in NYC and I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to participate. It was a five day event that …
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Top 10 Innovation Infusions: D.School Crash Course
Our Top Ten Innovation Infusions are fun and effective actions you can use along with your other innovation efforts. Most are quick and easy, some require a little more planning, …
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Do You Need a Lightning Bolt or Just Some Good Brainstorming?
Many companies sit around waiting for the lightning bolt to strike to give them the next “big idea”. I recently read this article called Where Ideas Come From on Fast …
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