Innovation inspires motivation! Innovation is a motivator to take action. �We love to come up with that new idea. We love to figure out how to do something better, or solve a problem. We love to take these opportunities and make something positive happen. So, what is your reason to innovate? What kind of future …
Responding to Change In many cases, we need to innovate because we must respond to some kind of change. This change could be something we perceive as bad and we want to fix. It could be something we don’t know whether it is bad or good. It could be something we know is good, so …
To successfully innovate and develop our ideas to high-impact levels, we need to approach it with systems thinking and go through stages. After working on innovation projects with a lot of organizations and institutions; reading many books, articles, and blogs; and launching my own innovations on a frequent basis, I’ve synthesized an innovation system that …
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The American Management Association (AMA) surveyed 2,115 managers about the most important skills needed in our organizations. It is not the 3Cs but now a different set of 4Cs: Critical thinking/problem solving, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity/innovation skills. Why are these 4Cs skills the critical skills? According to the survey of 2,115 managers, 91% rated the pace …
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Authored by Darin J. Eich, Ph.D. If growth is a top priority, innovative thinking skills should be encouraged and developed at all levels of an organization. Sure, there should be a great emphasis on external or open innovation and many of innovative ideas can come from your customers or other subject matter experts. Nonetheless, it …