http://www.b-mc2.com/2012/12/06/cooperation-essential-for-innovation/
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BOLT drives cooperation and motivation through communication and insight. If we can change the way we communicate, we will change the way we cooperate, if we reach higher levels of insight into what needs to be accomplished the structure will adapt, there is no structure, by itself, which can result in delivering higher levels of insight.
What could you expect if communication, insight, cooperation and motivation become the core of your organization? (Green arrows) First, leaders can harness the collective intelligence of their organization when formulating the strategy. When the organization is involved at some level of the formulation, cooperation and motivation grow, and you can expect both innovation to improve and execution to speed up.
When everything will be said and done, BOLT’s main contribution will be the realization that Culture and Structure are irrelevant to achieve higher levels of cooperation and motivation. To succeed, leaders such as Tim Cook or Steve Ballmer, and their organization as a whole, need to focus on the way we communicate and raise, by all means possible, the level of insight into what is being accomplished.
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segunda-feira, 17 de dezembro de 2012
domingo, 16 de dezembro de 2012
25 Awesome Innovation Quotes
(Posted by Gijs van Wulfen)
1. Nothing is stronger than habit. [Ovid]
2. If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got. [Albert Einstein]
3. It’s tough when markets change and your people within the company don’t. [Harvard Business Review]
4. They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. [Andy Warhol]
5. We cannot solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. [A. Einstein]
6. Necessity is the mother of invention. [Anonymous]
7. Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open. [T. Dewar]
8. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. [George Bernard Shaw]
9. There are no old roads to new directions. [The Boston Consulting Group]
10. You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. [Andre Gide]
11. Innovation is anything, but business as usual. [Anonymous]
12. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. [Alan Kay]
13. If at first the idea is not absurd, then there will be no hope for it. [A. Einstein]
14. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. [Arthur Koestler]
15. A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. [A. von Szent-Gyorgyi]
16. Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices. [L. Duncan]
17. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. [Demosthenes]
18. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. [Robert Frost]
19. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. [A. Clarke]
20. The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear. [Vincent Van Gogh]
21. The impossible is often the untried. [J. Goodwin]
22. An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. [Oscar Wilde]
23. Ideas are useless unless used. [T. Levitt]
24. It is not how many ideas you have. It’s how many you make happen. [Advertisement of Accenture]
25. The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own. [N. Bushnell]
1. Nothing is stronger than habit. [Ovid]
2. If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got. [Albert Einstein]
3. It’s tough when markets change and your people within the company don’t. [Harvard Business Review]
4. They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. [Andy Warhol]
5. We cannot solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. [A. Einstein]
6. Necessity is the mother of invention. [Anonymous]
7. Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open. [T. Dewar]
8. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. [George Bernard Shaw]
9. There are no old roads to new directions. [The Boston Consulting Group]
10. You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. [Andre Gide]
11. Innovation is anything, but business as usual. [Anonymous]
12. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. [Alan Kay]
13. If at first the idea is not absurd, then there will be no hope for it. [A. Einstein]
14. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. [Arthur Koestler]
15. A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. [A. von Szent-Gyorgyi]
16. Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices. [L. Duncan]
17. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. [Demosthenes]
18. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. [Robert Frost]
19. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. [A. Clarke]
20. The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear. [Vincent Van Gogh]
21. The impossible is often the untried. [J. Goodwin]
22. An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. [Oscar Wilde]
23. Ideas are useless unless used. [T. Levitt]
24. It is not how many ideas you have. It’s how many you make happen. [Advertisement of Accenture]
25. The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own. [N. Bushnell]
segunda-feira, 12 de novembro de 2012
Innovation Manager
(borrowed from http://www.cloverleafinnovation.com/blog/tag/innovation-manager-job-description )
While the recognized need for fresh thinking within companies is nearly universal, managing the process is a whole different ball game – with varying levels of commitment and approaches proving that as a discipline innovation is in many respects still in its infancy.
Because it touches so many areas of an organization, in the past innovation was often “attached” to other functions: R&D, Brand Management, Insights. In recent years, more and more company leaders – recognizing that innovation is inspired by a different mindset and is governed by a different set of rules than the everyday company operations – have sought to handle innovation separately from the base business. Some companies address this need by simply placing a Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) within the c-suite – without a true structure beneath them. In larger, more forward-looking organizations, separate innovation groups have been established. But even in these instances, well-defined roles and responsibilities are still emerging and evolving.
As innovation teams continue to play a more significant role within organizations, one key position we’d love to see develop is the Innovation Manager. Existing in parallel with the clearly established role of the Brand Manager, the Innovation Manager champions innovation, identifies innovation opportunities and translates ideas into actionable and profitable projects.
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This is a good and short article about innovation management. Different companies, different approachs. Doesn´t matter what approach the company took, the results are the main goal.
To make it to life, it is necessary to plan andaddapt whenever necessary, and have the buy-in from top management.
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