100 Great Innovation Ideas: from leading companies around the / by Howard Wright
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- 658.4063 WRI
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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
"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. "
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