Posts Tagged ‘innovation’
A Safe Space to Innovate – More Prevalent than Ever?
Many organizations have some sort of defined innovation processes. They each use their own language and bucket the steps a little differently, but the main concepts and the flow are often quite similar. Leading by DESIGN’s steps, for example, look like this: Identify the opportunity Discover as much information as possible about the opportunity Incubate Generate…
Read MoreHow To Help Your Organization Be an IFZ
Change is hard. Innovation requires change, but change is scary. So I feel I can serve you best today by giving you a few suggestions to make sure your organization can stop innovation in its tracks. What are some easy ways you can head innovation off at the pass to make sure that your organizational…
Read MoreInnovating Innovation, Part 3
This is the third in my mini-series on creating new value, also known as innovation. The first post took a deep dive into the concept of value—what it is and how it should be core to the existence of every organization—especially for-profit organizations. The second post took a deep dive into into the first of…
Read MoreInnovating Innovation, Part 2
Last week I shared my contention that innovation is nothing more, and nothing less, that finding new ways to bring real value to others. (Value being defined as some perceived benefit divided by some perceived cost). I promised in that posting to share the two elements that I think are important if you want to…
Read MoreInnovating Innovation, Part 1
You may know that we’ve been redesigning some modules of LEAD 365 this year (along with changing its name to LEAD 24/7). Some of you went through a version of the program before we even started exploring innovation. Over the past two years some of you participated in our innovation session, which was taught, at…
Read MoreHow To Succeed in Business? Value Wins the Day
(This post was first published here on October 19, 2015.) I have a key belief that affects the way I live. I believe the basic premise of business is to bring real value to the world and then be compensated for that value, usually in the form of money. This is the underlying foundation of business.…
Read MoreUpside Down and Inside Out
Back in December I shared a music video from the band Ok Go. I so highly value creativity, art, and music that I could post on something like that every week, but I hold back. Recently, though, our Leading by DESIGN team has been talking about innovation, which we define as creativity that brings value.…
Read MoreHow To Succeed in Business? Value Wins the Day
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD365, although all are welcome to read it.) I have a key belief that affects the way I live. I believe the basic premise of business is to bring real value to the world and then be compensated for that value, usually in the form of money. This is…
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