TY - BOOK AU - Wright, Howard TI - 100 Great Innovation Ideas: from leading companies around the SN - 9789388247573 U1 - 658.4063 PY - 2012/// CY - Mumbai PB - Embassy Books KW - Great Ideas N1 - Introduction The ideas Part 1 Approach 1 Take a break from technology 2 Reward innovation and creativity 3 Acknowledge and celebrate progress 4 Take your time 5 Be prepared to fail and learn from it 6 Take chances 7 Make a movie of the problem or situation 8 Be open to new ideas 9 Plan for action 10 Live the future 11 Keep things simple 12 Brand your team or project 13 Spread the word 14 Look for the silver lining Part 2- Creativity & Ideas 15 The 20:20:20 technique 16 Using 8:3:3 - finding your passion! 17 Have fun! 18 Heroes and villains 19 Be childlike, not childish 20 Generate as many ideas as you can 21 Read science fiction 22 Look back at history 23 Media storming 24 Biomimicry - how would nature do it? 25 Make things look ridiculous... on purpose 26 Stop telling yourself you're not innovative 27 Carry a camera 28 Listen to classical music 29 Be a visitor in your own world 30 Think in new areas 31 Try snowballing 32 Read as much as you can 33 Practice creativity 34 Fight your fear of failure 35 Think about the environmental impact 36 Understand your biorhythms 37 Create an ideal competitor 38 Take a bath 39 Bring in diversity Part 3 - People 40 Excite your team 41 Foster enthusiasm - it's infectious 42 Ask someone new for coffee 43 Communicate, communicate, communicate 44 Become an evangelist for innovation 45 Who are you innovating for? 46 Attend conferences that are 'off-topic' 47 Follow interesting bloggers and twitterers 48 Think like a venture capitalist 49 Learn to listen 50 Break your routines 51 Change your attitude 52 Make a list own your life 53 Role-play 54 Believe in yourself 55 Get rid of self-limiting habits 56 Create the right environment 57 Understand the problem 58 Set up an ideas wall 59 Set up an ideas bank Part 4 Process 60 Stand in other people's shoes 61 Understand what you mean by innovation 62 Think the unthinkable 63 Use random objects 64 Map the process 65 Alternate business models 66 ABC leadership 67 Explore the 'givens' 68 Make it real create a model of your idea 69 Expect the unexpected 70 Learn from every step 71 Anticipate problems, obstacles, enemies and processe 72 Feed on failure Part 5 Research 73 Set up a blog 74 Competitive analyses 75 Apply constraints 76 No constraints 77 Consider the big picture 78 Create a vision for your idea 79 Plan for action 80 Amplification through simplification Part 6 - Technique 81 Most ridiculous ideas 82 Work backwards 83 Recycle old ideas 84 Focus on the customer 85 Seek solitude 86 Benchmark your innovation 87 Look for what people aren't doing 88 Harvest ideas from unusual sources 89 Suspend judgment 90 Stimulate innovation and insight 91 Try writing differently 92 Morphological modelling 93 Ask challenging questions 94 Actively seek out the opposite 95 Ditch group brainstorming 96 Think of the good and the bad 97 Trim the fat 98 Tolerate ambiguity 99 Find the spaces 100 Keep on trying Appendix Weekly innovation activity list N2 - "Companies that fail to innovate will eventually disappear from the face of the earth. The era of focusing on incrementing sales has passed. The buzz word now is, disrupt yourself or be disrupted! Innovation has become critical in today s highly volatile business environment. The 100 great innovation ideas in this book will make you an idea factory, giving you the power to transform your workplace. The author doesn't stop at just giving you these ideas but also arms you with suggestions on how you can execute them in your own life or organization. The secret to successful innovation is to remain curious, stay positive and retain your enthusiasm. The ideas in this book will give you the ability to do just that. " ER -