21 Common Innovation Myths & Misconceptions Debunked Idea to Value / As all of us working on innovation know, it’s quite an opaque topic that many innovators and organizations don’t talk about openly. As a result, innovation is an area that’s fraught with many common myths and misconceptions. That’s unfortunate, because those less experienced in innovation often end up going about it all wrong, and as a result, we as customers, and as a society, get less bang for…
THE YEAR OF LIVING CREATIVELY: Next Course Begins on Sept. 12th The Heart of Innovation / The Year of Living Creatively is a highly engaging, eight-week online course that helps aspiring innovators transform their inspired ideas into new products, new services, new forms of expression, new businesses, and breakthrough ways of living. Previous graduates describe the course in a variety of colorful ways: — A GPS for the creative process — An incubation chamber for bold, new…
Video Quick Take: SAS’ Kalliopi Spyridaki on Curiosity Driving Innovation – SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SAS HBR.org / Sponsor content from SAS.
3 Ways Innovation in Asia is Different Board of Innovation / How fostering innovation in Asia needs to be different from Silicon Valley’s benchmark. The post appeared first on Board of Innovation .
Lessons on Resilience for Small and Midsize Businesses HBR.org / A look at some companies that thrived during the pandemic.
Podcast S5E118: Mark Herschberg – The career skills they don’t teach you in college Idea to Value / In this episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with author Mark Herschberg, helped to start the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program at MIT, dubbed MIT’s “career success accelerator,” We speak about the skills which are necessary to succeed in the future, but which aren’t taught well enough at college. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:30 – The types of skills which are…
What is the difference between Innovation, Invention and an Idea? Idea to Value / I am a big fan of the TV show Dragon’s Den (UK), also called Shark Tank (USA). It is always entertaining to watch the inventors trying to get support for their new ideas and inventions, which they are convinced are going to change the world. However, an invention is not the same as an innovation. It is also significantly less likely to succeed than an innovation. Invention is the development of a…
Returpen: Bringing Circularity into Healthcare Board of Innovation / Novo Nordisk’s pilot project, Returpen, is designed to collect used insulin pens in order to recycle the materials. The post appeared first on Board of Innovation .
DNA of an Innovative Business: Is It Yours? InnovationManagement / With the acceleration of modern economic, societal and environmental changes, new opportunities are created everywhere, and often where we least expect them. The post appeared first on InnovationManagement .
How Leaders Can Encourage Imagination HBR.org / A conversation with BCG’s Martin Reeves on encouraging imagination at work.
La disrupción y los proyectos suicidas Innolandia / Si hay una palabra manoseada hasta el infinito en innovación es DISRUPCIÓN. Ya lo comenté en un micropost que aparece en el ebook «20 aprendizajes de la innovación real», que podrás encontrar en Innolandia VIP , nuestro nuevo proyecto. El problema es que se habla sin saber. La disrupción, según la teoría del profesor Clayton Christensen , es un proceso. No un evento. La disrupción en un sector…
Creative Process: 5 stages which ideas go through Idea to Value / What happens in the brain when we are having an idea? Why is it that we sometimes get our best ideas when we are not even thinking about them, like in the shower ? What is actually happening in the brain a complex combination of conscious and unconscious activities that interact with one another, trying to find creative solutions to a challenge. Only when a possible solution is found does the..
Despide a Fernando INNOVACIÓN 6.0 / Existe un curioso fenómeno psicológico asociado a la tecnología: cuando nos acostumbramos a ella, nos parece que siempre ha estado ahí. Hoy no entenderíamos el mundo sin internet o sin móviles. Si en 1990 era impensable imaginar que tendríamos toda la información del mundo en casa, hoy no podríamos vivir sin ella a golpe de click. Subimos al coche y una voz sintética nos dice “200 metros y gira a…
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs & creativity Idea to Value / Can everyone be creative all the time? No. First, before a person can focus their energy on being creative, they need to satisfy their more basic needs. In 1943, Abraham Maslow came up with his groundbreaking Hierarchy of Needs, published as A theory of human motivation . In it, he outlined the theory that people need to satisfy their most basic needs before they can focus on more complex needs.
What Your Future Employees Want Most HBR.org / Three trends — and how to prepare for them.