Why You Need An Innovation Coach
Today, organizations routinely ask their people for innovation, and then prevent it from happening. Costa Michailidis, Co-Founder of Innovation Bound Tweet You’ve gone through training or read about things like design thinking and lean startup. Now you’re ready to innovate with your team. But somehow the project doesn’t go as smoothly as the exercises and […]
Avoid These Pitfalls when you Measure and Reward Innovation
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” doesn’t apply anymore. If it ain’t broke, its obsolete. Bill Gates Tweet Let’s face it, companies are comfortable investing in incremental innovation – fix what is broken, adopt new technology to make their operation more efficient, train their people to increase their productivity. Outputs are the goal for […]
Invention vs Innovation – 4 Must-Have Skills
“Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.” — Jonathan Schattke, scientist Innovation and invention are often used interchangeably yet they are two very distinct practices. Invention is the discovery of a new process or device. Invention is more likely to be patentable and […]
Viability – the Unexplored Innovation Variable
While existing companies execute a business model, start-ups look for one. – Steve Blank Much has been written about desirability, how it is important to learn about how your customer views the world and design solutions that really fit their needs. Eric Reis and Steve Blank introduced good frameworks for prototype and testing in their […]