Try Out IBM’s Innovation Assessment Tool
I found this cool innovation self-diagnostic at the IBM website that lets you assess your company’s innovation level against the results of their Global CEO Study 2006. It’s a nice strategic innovation tool that gives goals and objectives for instituting an effective innovation program in your company.
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Do you produce the best solutions possible?
How do you solve an easy problem? Probably, based on your experience, the solution comes quickly. You solve it easily because of what you know.
What happens, though, when you’re confronted with a problem outside of your experience? Chances are, you know SOME of the right stuff, but you don’t know enough to solve it. So you find out what you don’t know - you research things, or consult others.
But your solution is only as good as the knowledge you acquire. If the knowledge is adequate, so will be your solution. But if it isn’t, your solution may come up short.
You know what you know.
Sometimes, you know what you DON’T know.
But other times, you DON’T know what you don’t know. Hard to follow, eh? But essentially true.
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Table of contents for 7 Levels Of Change
- The 7 Levels Of Change - Introduction (Part 1 of 9)
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 2 of 9) - Level 1: Effectiveness
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 3 of 9) - Level 2: Efficiency
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 4 of 9) - Level 3: Improving
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 5 of 9) - Level 4: Cutting
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 6 of 9) - Level 5: Copying
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 7 of 9) - Level 6: Doing Things No One Else Is Doing
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 8 of 9) - Level 7: Doing Things That Can’t Be Done
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 9 of 9) - Bringing It All Together
The last in a nine-part series on Rolf Smith’s 7 Levels of Change, I bring everything together and discuss how to put the 7 Levels to work.
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The key to making a disruptive solar energy product is to overcome the high cost of the initial installation. Popular Science has awarded its Innovation of the Year award to a company who may well do that starting next year - Nanosolar. Let’s see if they can truly be disruptive.
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Over the past few years Under Armour has built an amazingly successful brand via their awesome sports-based ad campaigns. Now they’re moving into a new business area - retailing. And in doing so they are trying to master yet another form of innovation: customer experience.
7 Levels Of Change (Part 8 of 9) - Level 7: Doing Things That Can’t Be Done
Table of contents for 7 Levels Of Change
- The 7 Levels Of Change - Introduction (Part 1 of 9)
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 2 of 9) - Level 1: Effectiveness
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 3 of 9) - Level 2: Efficiency
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 4 of 9) - Level 3: Improving
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 5 of 9) - Level 4: Cutting
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 6 of 9) - Level 5: Copying
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 7 of 9) - Level 6: Doing Things No One Else Is Doing
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 8 of 9) - Level 7: Doing Things That Can’t Be Done
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 9 of 9) - Bringing It All Together
The eighth in a nine-part series on Rolf Smith’s 7 Levels of Change, I introduce the seventh level of change - Different (Doing Things That Can’t Be Done).
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I’ve added a new creative thinking tool to The Arsenal - “The Crazy Idea.” We’ll be putting it to use in the next installation of 7 Levels Of Change.
To get free access to The Arsenal, go here.
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There is a Buffalo Wild Wings about 15 miles down the Interstate from me now. It opened about two months ago, in a rather large mall. There is also a well-established restaurant 3 miles from my house that specializes in wings. It has a more locally appealing flavor variety, the wings taste better, and they’ve been doing extremely well for years. So naturally, people all over town are flocking to…
…Buffalo Wild Wings, even though it’s out of the way and has lower quality food. Why? How is BWW kicking ass?
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Table of contents for 7 Levels Of Change
- The 7 Levels Of Change - Introduction (Part 1 of 9)
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 2 of 9) - Level 1: Effectiveness
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 3 of 9) - Level 2: Efficiency
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 4 of 9) - Level 3: Improving
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 5 of 9) - Level 4: Cutting
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 6 of 9) - Level 5: Copying
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 7 of 9) - Level 6: Doing Things No One Else Is Doing
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 8 of 9) - Level 7: Doing Things That Can’t Be Done
- 7 Levels Of Change (Part 9 of 9) - Bringing It All Together
The seventh in a nine-part series on Rolf Smith’s 7 Levels of Change, I introduce the sixth level of change - Different (Doing Things No One Else Is Doing).
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In the future, when we look back on what will soon become the next business model for the music industry, people will regard Hannah Montana as a pioneer, or maybe simply the catalyst that got things started. But if we look at things the way they are now, the signs of a coming music business revolution are as plain as the nose on her perky face.
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