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The leaders of large organisations recognise the need for innovation and they allocate targets and resources accordingly but often the results are disappointing. Corporate lectures about the importance of creativity and an increase in the R&D budget are just not enough. There are too many obstacles within the organisation to the implementation of new and unorthodox ideas. Often [...]  The CEO was given a ticket for a performance of Schubert’s unfinished Symphony. Since he was unable to go, he passed the invitation to the company’s Quality Assurance Manager. The next morning, the CEO asked him how he enjoyed it, and he was handed a report, which read as follows: For a considerable period, the oboe [...]  Selfservice.org has a great article on Google’s approach to innovation based on a talk by Jim Lecinski, MD of Central Region at Google. Here are the points in brief:  1. Innovation, not instant perfection. Google believes in launching new products and ideas early and often, rather than trying to perfect those ideas behind closed doors before releasing them [...] Neil Fairbrother interviewed me on Pod3.tv. The programme is called Innovate or Die and is available as an iTunes video podcast download. We discuss issues relating to the need for innovation, how leaders can establish a culture for innovation and what to do if you want to introduce innovation at a lower level in the organisation. [...] In the current issue of CEO Refresher Katalin Eibel-Spanyi and Andrew Spanyi give some pertinent advice on how to innovate in services. They point out that most people think of innovation first in terms of products. But service or business process innovations can be much more powerful. Dell, Direct Line and Amazon are all examples [...] It is great to see conventional wisdom challenged head on. Dominic Kennedy writing in the Times on 4 Aug 2007 says that walking to the shops does more harm to the environment than driving. Calculations by Chris Goodall author of How to Live a Low Carbon Life show that driving a typical car for 3 [...] |
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