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 As companies focus on their ability to navigate a constantly changing landscape, understanding how to tap into and manage the next generation of workers becomes increasingly important. In addition, disseminating the process, tools and techniques to senior and middle management who are leading an ultra connected, tech savvy generation focused more on self that success presents a challenge. Consider Ryo Mukumoto, a 22 year old into his third year making mock-ups at Honda’s research arm when he beat about 400 other entries in an in-house competition. Honda made him the youngest lead engineer in the company’s history and gave him a young team to helpRead More →

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As global companies invest billions each year in R&D and innovation, the differentiators often comes down to the techniques and resources that are involved. Denning and Dunham provide the basis for any leader who has the objective of driving innovation in their company. The “Structure of innovation practices” is a solid model that details non sequential processes critical to innovation success.   There are many books out there that have the word innovation in the title, and who has time to read all them. This book is different in that it actually takes you through the “process” of innovation. Key to leveraging the concepts isRead More →

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Ready, willing and able Innovation is a process that requires individuals to pursue a target. In order to achieve success resources on your team need to “want” to innovate and know “how” to innovate. As leaders in an organization, the most important job you have is creating the culture that wants to innovate. That see the value and gets genuinely excited about the outcomes and journey. Secondly, the internal process, tools and formation of teams focusing on innovation needs consideration and strategy to address the “how” portion. Having all the excitement in the world but pursuing a path that leads to lack luster results viaRead More →