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Continuous Innovation via the Service Ethic

By Jim Clemmer - New products and services can be "knocked off" or copied. But it's much harder for competitors to duplicate a management system and corporate culture that produces a continuous stream of successful product and service improvements, innovations, adaptations and extensions. That continuous innovation stream comes from controlled chaos, which can be achieved through a four-stage process, according to Jim Clemmer. (Added: 5-Dec-2006 Hits: 398 )

Open innovation Sounds Good, But How Can Scientists Apply It In The Lab?

By Ali Alwattari - Open innovation expands opportunities for success by encouraging innovators to look outside their organizations for potential technologies and solutions that could be adapted to the challenge at hand. However, its utility and value to R&D teams depends on the ability of scientists to make sense out of open innovation. (Added: 5-Dec-2006 Hits: 491 )

The Shining Diamond Of Creativity: Five Doorways Into Brilliance

By Mitchell Ditkoff - The creative process has been studied for decades by truckloads of psychologists, social scientists, and business leaders looking to cut through the Gordian knot of human behavior and understand the inner workings of where true brilliance comes from. The research done on this topic has resulted in the formulation of many models (not the high fashion kind) in an attempt to demystify creativity for �the rest of us.� Is there room for another model? (Added: 3-Feb-2006 Hits: 980 )

Innovation by Subtraction

By Paul Sloane - We tend to think that the best way to innovate is to add new features to our products or services. What can we add that increases the appeal of our offering? This route can easily lead to extra cost, feature overload and customer fatigue. Sometimes a better answer lies in subtraction. (Added: 5-Dec-2006 Hits: 498 )

Ideas Come In All Sizes

By Paul R. Williams - Big ideas, although having impacts that many times are short-lived, do provide incredible boosts in brand recognition, customer loyalty, competitive separation, employee morale, and company performance. The goal of this article, however, is to remind you that, while the pursuit of big ideas is noble, it is short-sighted to discount the huge prospective impact of the numerous small ideas within your organization. (Added: 4-Dec-2006 Hits: 417 )

Four Ways To Sidestep Your Creative Blocks And Motivate Your Muse

By Scott Ginsberg - Are you thinking that you have lost your creative spark? Are you worried that you peaked too soon? Read this article for some very creative ways to regain your creativity. (Added: 3-Feb-2006 Hits: 632 )

Questioning: An underutilized innovation strategy - from InnovationTools.com

By Jeffrey Baumgartner - 'Why are people reluctant to ask questions? There are two reasons - both are stupid. The first is that people are afraid to seem unknowledgeable about a topic related to their work.' Learn about the second reason as well. And see how a questioning environment can be nurtured to improve innovation. (Added: 5-Dec-2006 Hits: 397 )

The Rise of Innovation in Asia

By Sean Silverthorne - Although Asian countries have been able to use cost advantages and software coding prowess to attract outsource business from around the world, the region is quickly moving up the value chain to challenge America's leadership in innovation. (Added: 4-Dec-2006 Hits: 414 )

Creativity & You

By Harry Hoover - Funky clothes and an artsy appearance are not required to be creative. All you have to do is believe you are creative and it will be so. (Added: 15-Mar-2005 Hits: 1143 )

How Team Leaders Show Support-or Not

By Martha Legace - What do leaders do to make employees in creative functions feel supported or not? That was one of the research questions posed by Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and colleagues in what has turned into a penetrating study of creativity in organizations. (Added: 4-Dec-2006 Hits: 650 )

The Creativity Maze

By Teresa Amabile - Creative people are rarely superstars like Michael Jordan. Indeed, most of the creative work done in the business world today gets done by people whose names will never be recorded in history books. They are people with expertise, good creative-thinking skills, and high levels of intrinsic motivation. (Added: 4-Dec-2006 Hits: 556 )

Are Your Ideas Audacious Enough?

By Jeffrey Baumgartner - According to Jeffrey Baumgartner, the next time you have a business idea, go on and be audacious. One should push the idea to its limits and run with it. This is how the best ideas turn into major innovations. (Added: 5-Dec-2006 Hits: 506 )

Embracing Innovation

By Sam Kogan - Persuading CEOs to buy into innovation as a blueprint rather than a brainstorm is a key to success, according to Dr. Sam Kogan. (Added: 5-Dec-2006 Hits: 438 )

Innovation Lessons Learned in 2005

By Chuck Frey - When asked to share the most important lesson about innovation they have learned during 2005, here�s what the readers of InnovationTools had to say. The tips and strategies shared here are thought provoking, and are likely to spark some ideas you can use in the coming year. (Added: 3-Feb-2006 Hits: 627 )

How Can You Spark Your QCREATIVITY?

By Scott Ginsberg - "Every creative business idea begins with a question." And so the beginning of this article goes. This is a great read for anyone priding themselves on their creativity or those searching for a ways to improve theirs. Read some of the questions asked that started up some very lucrative careers. (Added: 3-Feb-2006 Hits: 758 )

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