How to Evaluate Ideas

Generating a large number of ideas is a key part of the creative thinking process. The more ideas you come up with the more likely you are to find something truly innovative. But having a long list of ideas creates an issue. How do you select the best ideas to carry through to implementation?

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Two Thinking Tips for Leaders

If you run a company then you are probably burdened with a plethora of troubles.  You have all sorts of headaches, problems and surprises to sort out every day.  It is hard to stand back and focus on the big strategic issues – but that is exactly what you have to do.  Here are a [...]

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Next Meeting of the Innovation Unit – London Apr 19

We have a new agenda for the next Innovation Unit meeting on the morning of Monday 19 April and we will have a leading speaker from Nokia.

 

Since the early 1990′s Nokia has invested close to €35 billion in research and development to build one of the strongest and broadest intellectual property rights (IPR) portfolios [...]

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Why CEOs just don’t get Innovation

Stefan Lindegaard has written an interesting piece in Business Week arguing that most CEOs just don’t understand what innovation needs and entails.  As evidence he quotes research by the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, N.C., which interviewed 247 executives and managers who supervised at least 500 people and had more than 15 years of management [...]

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