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Strategy Innovation

Jamie Notter

Take a look at your strategy and see if there are any opportunities for innovation. For a project I’m working on, I dug out my old copy of Blue Ocean Strategy. Here’s where you identify parts of the industry where competition has been jumping over each other so much that customers end up being “over-served.” premium seating).

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The Two Best Practices for Innovation in Times of Crisis

Association Freak

An Expert in Innovation in Nonprofit Organizations I spoke with Dr. Peter Temes, Founder and President of The Institute for Innovation in Large Organizations (ILO). He launched the Institute in 2005 to bring together senior executives leading innovation worldwide. So how are innovation leaders attacking this crisis?

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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

.orgSource

At.orgCommunity’s recent Innovation Summit, Sharon explored how Blue Ocean Strategy can help you bypass the sharks and find your way to offering unique and powerful member value. Before their book was published in 2005, the authors “studied over 150 strategic moves spanning more than 30 industries over 100 years.”

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: The Cost of Not Being You

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. The Cost of Not Being You. "We When we stand out from the crowd, when we do not conform to others expectations, we often have to pay a cost. So yes, the cost of being you will sometimes be great.

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The Feeling of Failure

Jamie Notter

But as Seth Godin points out in a recent post , what we are actually afraid of is the FEELING of failure, not the actual impact or costs of the failure. The feeling of failing will hit you whether that experiment cost you $10 and 15 minutes of time, or if it cost you $100,000 and two FTEs for a year. December 2005 (5).

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Crowdsourcing.

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Engaging Members to Crowdsource Solutions and Innovations. Companies increasingly look to customer-generated innovations, co-creating products and services with the input and effort of end users. Nov 2005 (1).

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The Hourglass Blog: Learning Innovation from the Mayo Clinic

The Hourglass Blog

Learning Innovation from the Mayo Clinic. Heres another great HBR post describing another set of "principles of innovation." I say "another," of course, because of my work with the WSAE Innovation Task Force, where we helped define four key principles of innovation from the case studies we examined in the for-profit sector.