Innovating by simplifying: Seven ways to make things better
Sometimes you innovate to create whole new markets and capabilities, and sometimes you just want to make an improvement - in many cases, such improvements come as a result of simplification.
Networking for Innovation: Partners, sponsors and smart people
Building a good personal network, by exercising good people skills, contact management and building social capital, is an essential key to successful innovation.
Rethinking measurement: More than evaluating performance
Management should focus on using measurement frameworks that show the hypothesized relationships between desired outcomes and the drivers (or leading indicators) of those outcomes; what's more, developing the right measures and using measurement data must be iterative and highly interactive.
Innovation leaders need to have all the attributes and skills of a good leader, but the extent of their success will depend acutely on how they handle their roles in respect to people, goals, politics, climate, challenges and character.
Unlike their counterparts in sales, most innovation teams tend to work in an atmosphere that resembles the world of the aristocratic amateur, with something approaching disdain for conflict.
