What are your barriers to business success? A study from my colleagues shows that innovators don’t see barriers. Instead, they use obstacles to spur innovations that help them outpace the competition.
The way to win is to be extremely good at the jobs that are diabolically hard – figure out how to do that, and you’ll do ok.
To innovate, we need three things: a great idea, that creates value for people, made real. If we only have two out of the three, then we have an innovation trigger: fear, fantasy or frustration.
The culture in our firms has a big influence on how innovative we are. Two ways to change the culture are to go with a flatter organisational hierarchy, and to examine the assumptions that underlie our culture.
Do you know who invented the computer? Most people don’t – I’m not even sure that there is an answer to that question. The fact that we don’t know tells us a lot about how innovation actually works.
Here’s the secret to innovation: there are no secrets. The only way to get better at innovating is to do the work – get better at experimenting.
Often, seeing the way forward is simple. But making the needed is not easy. Here are some thoughts on how to do this more successfully.
An innovation quip.
Despite what we keep hearing, physical retail isn’t dead. The key to thriving is by standing for something – having a purpose.
Creating space in your head for creativity is an important part of innovation – I hope that these resources will help you clear that space, and do great work!
