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Entrepreneurship: What does it REALLY mean? by: Dr. Alvin Chan Introduction: In a world where ideas drive economies, it is no wonder that innovation and entrepreneurship are often seen as inseparable bedfellows... (read more)
Teaching Large Companies To Think Like The Little Guys
Q: I am an executive at a large company and in our industry we are seeing a trend wherein smaller companies are gaining market share at an alarming rate... (read more)
Seeking Initiative and Innovation? Reward Failure
Based on Proprietary Research "If you want to increase initiative and innovation, you have to encourage and embrace failure... (read more)
7 Strategies for Sustained Innovation
The need for constant reinvention is a given in today? business environment. And while a breakthrough product or concept can catapult an organization ahead of its competitors, in these fast-paced times, that advantage is often short-lived... (read more)
Entrepreneurship: What does it REALLY mean?
Introduction:In a world where ideas drive economies, it is no wonder that innovation and entrepreneurship are often seen as inseparable bedfellows... (read more)
Innovation incubator: Build it and keep it running
If your company is like the one I work for, your people are talking about the need for innovation. Mine has just announced a new program "that will bring a standardized approach to gathering and evaluating your ideas for generating new revenue and... (read more)
Defining a R&D Framework for Entrepreneurship and Innovation on Information Product Generation
IntroductionKnowledge is the key resource that forms the institutional basis of the post-industrial economy and society... (read more)
Innovators Role at Hard Times
One Research Scientist at the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Imaging Systems laboratory said Carly Fiorina was a marketing person put in change of engineers who cared nothing about the art and beauty of technology... (read more)
Types of Innovation
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation... (read more)
Creativity and Innovation Directors, Consultants and Managers
Creativity and Innovation is essential for competitive advantage, yet the role of Creativity and Innovation Manager is often not viewed as essential. Organizations without such a role will simply not perform as competitively as their rivals... (read more)
Lessons From Innovative Companies
What do the companies 3M, Polaroid, and Walt Disney have in common? All have innovation in their blood. All encourage an innovative spirit at every level of their organization... (read more)
Process Innovation
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation... (read more)
BOOK REVIEW Performance of Financial Institutions Efficiency Innovation Regulation By Patrick T Harker and Stavros A Zenios
BOOK REVIEW: Performance of Financial Institutions: Efficiency, Innovation, Regulation By: Patrick T. Harker and Stavros A... (read more)
Discontinuous Innovation
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation... (read more)
Seeking Initiative and Innovation? Reward Failure!
Based on Proprietary Research"If you want to increase initiative and innovation, you have to encourage and embrace failure. A culture that punishes less-than-ideal risk-related outcomes will stifle both initiative and innovation"... (read more)
Creativity Myths
Sustained myths about Creativity and Innovation lead to confusion, bad practice and bad decision making. Some of them include:1... (read more)
Innovation Management? The Harsh Facts Of Life For All Innovators
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation... (read more)
Innovation Management? Why Should the USA or EU Come Out on Top?
There is a momentum of thought in the USA and EU that implies that either of the two continents should come out on top in the innovation game... (read more)
Knowledge Gains in Innovation
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation... (read more)
Teaching The Big Boys To Think Small
Last week I told you about a recent report from The Conference Board that has a lot of big company CEOs concerned about competition from smaller, more innovative and entrepreneurially-minded companies... (read more)
Managing Creativity and Innovation, Part 1 of 2
Leaders, consultants and managers must be competent in at least thirteen domains to even begin effectively managing creativity and innovation. Part 1 of Managing Creativity and Innovation covers the first seven of these domains... (read more)
Innovation: Wake Up Your People? Creative Genius
Successful companies have innovation in their blood. The single most important element in an innovative company is the creativity of their people. Creative thinkers don? win by conforming to a given set of rules... (read more)
Creativity, Innovation, and Science? Separate and Distinct or Not?
There is a pervasive belief that creativity and innovation are separate and distinct from the concept of science. That creativity and innovation cannot be scientific. This is completely false... (read more)
3 Innovation Keys - Do Your Innovative Efforts Need More Power?
Recently, I attended a webinar with nearly 400 other Chief Learning Officers - during one polling period, we were asked what primary driving force pushes organization-wide or individual innovation - the majority agreed that leadership is that force... (read more)
Innovation Makes Leaders
Basically what innovation does is making your business unique and often more progressive in its development... (read more)
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