There are many ways to help an organization spark creative breakthroughs. Developing your inner creative resource is part of the very fabric of creativity. And it’s never too late to start, because creativity is a journey, not a destination. For most people, the idea of creativity may be associated with artists and fashion designers. Yet […]
Read MoreHow Design-driven Innovation helped Intuit grow to #1
The current issue of the Harvard Business Review (January-February 2015) features a great case study about the amazing growth and success of Intuit, and how the company focused on design-driven innovation as it’s platform for success. I have a personal interest in Intuit, since I’ve helped them recruit some of their UX Design Directors, and […]
Read MorePilot or perish, part 2.
By Lavrans Lovlie. Designers bring ideas to life and are able to convince organisations to build services that their customers will love, but fail to communicate how these will bring value to business. At the same time, businesses spend millions to communicate their ideas through business cases that fail to convince customers. Neither beautiful designs […]
Read MoreSeeking stories of changing innovation culture.
By Tamara Carleton. How do you change culture to support change? Whether it is open innovation, portfolio management, or customer-centered innovation, implementing a new innovation framework often means changing an organization’s culture. I have teamed up with William Cockayne, who oversees the Foresight and Innovation program at Stanford University, and Yuriko Sawatani, a professor at […]
Read MoreHow to cut through complexity to create a cohesive strategy.
By Lavrans Lovlie. When the hospital region of Vestfold and Telemark in Norway set out to create a new strategy for re-habilitation services, they faced a daunting organizational challenge: How to capture and understand user needs, and form a coherent view of opportunities, for a handful of hospital and local councils spread over a large […]
Read MoreInnovation tip: Flipping the meeting.
By Lisa Solomon. What does it take to create sustainable cultures of innovation? Let’s start by Flipping the Meeting. Ten years ago, Sal Khan started tutoring his niece using homemade online video tutorials. Fast forward to the present, and the Khan Academy is widely recognized as one of the most innovative forces in classroom education in […]
Read More7 Ideas for Improving Carry-on Luggage.
Although this post is not about Innovation Culture, it is about innovation and design. I am a blogger for Fast Company Design, and an editor recently asked me to write about how design can make travel less painful, for a feature series they are working on. I’ve been traveling over 100,000 miles a year for […]
Read MoreThree ways to build an abundance mindset.
By Tamara Carleton. One feature of great innovation cultures is an abundance mindset. An abundance mindset is a way of thinking expansively about future opportunities. People with an abundance mindset believe that there are limitless opportunities for everyone to train for, pursue, and propose. An abundance mindset leads to feelings of empowerment, commitment, and generosity. […]
Read MoreDesigning management systems for breakthrough success.
By Heather Fraser. It’s an exciting time of reawakening – with a rich stream of design-inspired frameworks, methodologies and tools being brought to market right now. That’s a welcomed, and direly needed, stream of new thinking. While team creativity, collaboration and ingenuity can lead to remarkable breakthroughs in terms of innovative solutions and distinct strategies […]
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