Managing Innovation:

Managing Ideas

Managing Creativity in Your Business Environment

Demystifying the Creative Process and Encouraging Disciplined Creativity

"From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it." 

~ Akio Morita

The Jazz of Innovation

The Jazz of Innovation: 11 Practice Tips

How To Prevent Innovation (Humorous Tips)

• Establish a "30-minute rule": for the first 30 minutes after an idea is expressed only negative comments can be made... More

Innovation-friendly Organization

Inspirational Business Plan: Successful Innovation

Market Analysis: "Creativity methods provide senior management with a unique tool to tap into a massive organizational resource. Learning to leverage the creative thinking skills of every individual, regardless of their level, creates the sustainable competitive advantage every corporation is striving for." – Jim O'Neal... More

12 Breakthrough Ideas for the New Economy

Source: HBR.  Executive summary by Anastasia Bibikova.

The best ideas related to the practice of management. If you know somebody has used them, don’t try to repeat. Simply consider them, debate them and let them inspire your own thinking!...

2. Monopoly on Creativity: What is nowadays’ key economic resource? It was proved that only creative people can “reach the moon” and make the company flourish... More

Creativity Sells

"Creativity" is the hottest buzzword in business today: Everybody wants to be creative. All companies are searching for any worthwhile innovation that captures the public's imagination and strengthens the company's brand.

Entrepreneurial Creativity

Entrepreneurial creativity is about coming up with ideas and converting them into innovative business activities. The creativity in the entrepreneur is combined with the ability to innovate, to take the idea and make it work in practice... More

10 Commandments of Innovation

The Way Our Mind Works

Our brain is divided into two hemispheres, the left and the right, and each hemisphere specializes in different functions, processes different kinds of information, and deals with different kinds of problems.

The left brain works more with logic and analysis, the right works more with emotions and imagination. Intuitive, emotional, and creative work is performed by our right brain.

You must divide time between the left-brain and right-brain activity to achieve better creativity results. If you keep bouncing back and forth between creative and analytical activities, you'll get a headache and won't produce your best results. Analysis, evaluation and judgment get in the way of creativity. That's why in brainstorming sessions we suspend judgment while we generate ideas. Similarly, radical innovation project managers apply the loose-tight leadership technique to divide time between divergent and convergent thinking by their team members at different project stages.

The Jazz of Innovation

The improvisation-driven model for innovation project management doesn’t discard structure, just as there is a clear structure to good jazz. In innovation, this structure is created through roadmaps, guiding principles, business processes, systems and organizational charts. Strategic-planning and road-mapping processes cannot guarantee brilliant flashes of creative insight, but they can prepare minds and increase the odds that such flashes occur in real time. Thus structure, as chords do in jazz, serves as a basis for improvisation, experimentations, discoveries and innovation... More

Cross-Pollinate Ideas

Winning innovative solutions are inspired and developed in the process of cross-pollination of ideas, rather than narrowly focused search... More

Perfect Brainstorming: 10 Rules

 Best Practices  Google: 10 Golden Rules

• Encourage creativity. Google engineers can spend up to 20 percent of their time on a project of their choice. There is, of course, an approval process and some oversight, but basically we want to allow creative people to be creative. One of our not-so-secret weapons is our ideas mailing list: a companywide suggestion box where people can post ideas ranging from parking procedures to the next killer app. The software allows for everyone to comment on and rate ideas, permitting the best ideas to percolate to the top... More

 Case in Point  Toyota Production System (TPS)

Toyota’s global competitive advantage is based on a corporate philosophy known as the Toyota Production System (also known as Lean Manufacturing) aimed at systematic elimination of 7 wastes – overproduction, waiting, transportation, inventory, motion, over-processing, defective units – and the implementation of the concepts of continuous flow and customer pull. The system depends also on a human resources management policy that stimulates employee creativity... More

16 Ways to Avoid the Hassle of Commercializing University Technology

By: Terry Collison

Have no defined policy or procedure at all on commercializing university technology. Defining the groundrules, requirements, and procedures could cause a lot of debate and disagreement. Allow faculty members to be creative. (The university’s rights and responsibilities can always be figured out later if you need to.)... More

References and Resources:

1. The Art of Innovation, Tom Kelley

2. Direct from Dell, Michael Dell with Catherine Fredman

3. Jack: Straight from the Gut, Jack Welch. Executive summary by Soundview

4. How To Kill a Team's Creativity, Sethi R., Smith D. and Park W., Harvard Business Review

5. Improve Your Lateral Thinking: Puzzles To Challenge Your Mind, Paul Sloane

6. Stories and Analogies, BusinessBalls.com

7. Entrepreneurial Creativity, Vadim Kotelnikov

8. The Jazz of Innovation, Vadim Kotelnikov

9. Awake at the Wheel: Getting Your Great Ideas Rolling, Mitchell Lewis Ditkoff

10. The Jazz of Innovation, Vadim Kotelnikov

11. Inspiring Corporate Culture, Vadim Kotelnikov

12. Entrepreneurial Creativity, Vadim Kotelnikov

 

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The Jazz of Innovation

 

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Creativity and Design Thinking

 

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Techniques for Fast Evaluation of Ideas

 

Innovation

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Entrepreneurial Creativity

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The Jazz of Innovation

11 Practicing Tips

Innovation-friendly Organization

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Letting the Best Ideas Win

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Successful Innovation

Smart Corporate Leader

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