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Assess your Innovation Capability with a Healthcheck

Jul 27, 2010 9:42am

Just how innovative is your organisation? What is holding you back from being truly agile? The BQF Innovation Healthcheck is a proven method of improving innovation. It examines key indicators, determines strengths and weaknesses and identifies ways of improving innovation throughout the organisation. The healthcheck is undertaken through a web-based survey followed...

Book Review – The Open Innovation Revolution

Jul 23, 2010 7:06am

Stefan Lindegaard is recognised as a leading writer and thinker on innovation. In this book he takes on the hot topic of Open Innovation (OI) which he defines as bridging internal and external resources to make innovation happen. The early chapters are excellent. He clearly explains the need for OI...

Ideas Jam – How it works

Jul 14, 2010 5:28am

We ran the Ideas Jam meeting yesterday and it went well. It was an intensive idea generation session. There were 18 participants from various companies who each brought a challenge from their business – e.g. How can we communicate our new strategy to thousands of people? The...

Poll – Who is blocking innovation?

Jul 9, 2010 11:07am

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To boost innovation just keep the boss away!

Jul 7, 2010 11:03am

Billions of dollars are spent on developing and launching new consumer packaged goods (CPG) products each year, and some companies see tremendous success while others – don’t. Why? One secret appears to lie in the degree of senior management involvement in the creative process, according to a study by The...

How a Corporate Innovation Camp Works

Jul 2, 2010 4:50am

I recently helped facilitate a corporate innovation camp for Amdocs, a $3B software and services company that supplies mobile service providers. It took place over four days: the first two were spent on a bewildering variety of crazy creativity activities. These included blowing huge soap bubbles, a giant pacman, wacky physics...

Two things that lead to innovation – Pain and Slack

Jun 24, 2010 10:51am

If you want innovation then think about these two words – pain and slack. They can lead you to innovation success. Wherever there is a pain there is a need for innovation. So if you are looking to create new products or services look for the pain points. Study your customers...

Try a Virtual Failure to help build Success

Jun 19, 2010 12:11pm

I heard this story from creative thinking expert Jurgen Wolff. Steve Loranger, CEO of ITT Industries, shared this technique with Business 2.0: ”If you’re working on an important contract, a ‘must-win’ program, give your team a much shorter deadline than actually exists. Afterward you tell your team, ‘I just got...

Intensive Bottled Creativity

Jun 15, 2010 9:02am

The next meeting of the BQF Innovation Unit will be an Ideas Jam on the morning of July 13th in central London. It will be fun, challenging, interactive, intensive and creative. You will learn new ideation methods, meet interesting people and work with them to develop radical ideas. It is...

Three things the Government can do to boost Innovation

Jun 8, 2010 6:37am

I was recently asked in an interview what advice I would give to an incoming government on how to increase innovation in our economy. Here is what I would recommend: 1. Make it as easy as possible to start a new business. Most radical innovations come from start-ups and we need...