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Creativity & Innovation

Innovate Like a Three Year Old – One Little Question that Can Increase the Number of New Product Opportunities You Uncover.

by Michael Dalton

Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes Innovate Like a Three Year Old – One Little Question that Can Increase the Number of New Product Opportunities You Uncover. In a previous post, I wrote about some of the innovation lessons we learned while we were in kindergarten. That included focusing on one task at a time [...]

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Time Keeps on Ticking – What’s a Day of New Product Delay Costing You?

by Michael Dalton

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes Companies that try to improve return on new product investment by managing project expenses are pulling the wrong lever. I’m not saying cost isn’t important. But once staffed, project cost is largely driven by the length of time the project team takes to finish. Managing project completion dates is [...]

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Are You Ready for Open Innovation?

by Michael Dalton
Open Business Models

Reading time: 5 – 8 minutes Open innovation, or partnerships for outside sources of new technology and market access, has become one of the most talked about movements in innovation. There are over half a million Google citations for open innovation, and Amazon lists no fewer than 4,500 books referencing the subject. One such quote [...]

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Are Too Many Ideas Killing Your Innovation?

by Michael Dalton

Reading time: 5 – 8 minutes Are too many ideas killing your innovation? How can having too many ideas be bad for your new product success; sounds counterintuitive doesn’t it? Well, the problem isn’t actually the number of ideas generated. The problem is allowing too many of them into the product development process at the [...]

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Want a Better Environment for Innovation?

by Michael Dalton

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes Want to create a better environment for innovation: Get out of yours and into theirs I had an interesting discussion recently with a company vice-president about the role of facilities design in innovation. He asked me what he could do in terms of layout and aesthetics to make the [...]

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Innovation Lessons from Childhood

by Michael Dalton

Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes Did you learn all you really need to know about innovation in kindergarten? Funny thing, but as we grow-up and get “smarter”, we tend to make things more complicated than they need to be, and innovation is no exception. Innovation is complex enough to begin with; so let’s look [...]

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Creativity – Declining as We Age?

by Lynn Dessert
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Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Creatively Selling in Today’s Marketplace….it can be your cup of Tea is the topic of a meeting I attended today facilitated by Karen A. Galvin, Founder and President of Vision Enterprises. This is not the first time I have seen the ‘director’ in action. The approach Karen’s organization takes [...]

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Is it Time To Break The Rules?

by Lynn Dessert
First Break All The Rules

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes Conservatism is getting the upper hand, and to be frank, it scares me. When things get tough, people take less risk. They look for the rules to follow and figure if they keep their head down, the next lay off might just miss them. Companies slash budgets, employee raises [...]

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