Better Insights, Better Results
I'm a fan of learning from the best. What are the high-leverage strategies that the leaders in innovation use? In "Smart Spenders, the Global Innovation 1000," an article in strategy+business magazine, Barry Jaruzelski, Kevin Dehoff, and Rakesh Bordia write about the successful strategies that the 94 high-leverage innovators use.
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” — Steve Jobs Innovation objectives are how you realize the potential for your business. Innovation is how you change the gam either in the marketplace, your product, or your processes. From what I’ve seen, the people that do best with innovation are the ones that can effectively …
This post is an index of my book nuggets from Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition), by Michael Michalko. In this book, the author, a former Disney Imagineer, provides expert creative-thinking techniques for approaching problems in unconventional ways. You can apply the techniques to create original ideas to improve your personal life and …
How do you create predictable results in your business? Once you’ve figured out that an innovation is useful and you’ve quantified its impact, how do you implement it in your system? You orchestrate it. Orchestration is the elimination of discretion to help produce predictable results. Orchestration is about creating order, standardization, and quality in a …
"The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen." — Charles Lamb How do you know whether your innovations are working? You need to quantify your results. This is how take a business from good to great. You experiment, you innovate, and you measure your results. …
