by Jeff | Jun 18, 2016 | Innovation, Innovation Book
Innovation team collaboration: a 3-legged stool and a bunch of glue and additional metaphors. The stool analogy runs out of steam after a few pages and the author’s turn to another metaphor: the heart. What is the heart of collaboration and teamwork? Trust. I’ve read...
by Jeff | Jun 18, 2016 | Innovation Book, Uncategorized
Innovation team collaboration: a 3-legged stool and a bunch of glue. Remember from last post: the following 3 elements are critical to successful innovation teams: shared strategic vision, unique and complementary skills, and shared rewards. Funny idea is a stool from...
by Jeff | Jun 18, 2016 | Innovation, Innovation Book
Innovation team collaboration: a 3-legged stool and a bunch of glue. Whether it’s a 3-legged stool, a tripod, or the 3 amigos, there is no shortage of teams and/or systems requiring 3 effective elements. In this book, they go with the following 3 critical elements to...
by Jeff | May 16, 2016 | Innovation, Innovation Book
The fourth discipline is the innovation team. The sections in this discipline are: 1. Genius of Teams 2. Forming the Innovation Team 3. Overcoming Blockages to Innovation, and 4. Innovation Motivators. The authors start by talking about “exponential improvement” as...
by Jeff | May 15, 2016 | Innovation, Innovation Book
Let’s get reoriented here for a moment. Innovation – the 5 Disciplines: IMPORTANT NEEDS – What is important to the customer VALUE CREATION – General and specific tools for creating customer value INNOVATION CHAMPIONS – Be a champ INNOVATION TEAMS – Similar to many...
by Jeff | May 15, 2016 | Innovation, Innovation Book
If you’re making an innovation plan (a more detailed and fleshed-out summary of your value proposition which also includes some business plan insights and risk discussion), make a prototype of your product or service. That’s it. Make the prototype. No excuses. A...
