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John Bessant
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What is “Not Invented Here” Syndrome and How Does It Impact Innovation Success?
Have you ever experienced a situation where your company receives a great idea from outside your organization that has t...
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How to Share and Manage Knowledge for Innovation
Knowledge sharing and innovation In the 1970s, Walker’s Wagon Wheel Tavern sealed its role in innovation history. Its na...
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What it means to continuously improve: Definition and strategies
How to define Continuous Improvement? Small steps matter, especially when they’re all taken in the same direction. And t...
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How to Create a Continuous Improvement Culture: Strategies and Examples
Raise your hand if you don't want to continuously improve your organization.
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The Power of Recombinant Innovation
Innovation Across Industries Examples Wandering around Chicago in 1912 William Klann was a man on a mission. He was part...
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How crisis-driven innovation can help your organization
A note from the author: I first wrote this blog as the basis for a talk in the UK last year when the only thing worrying...
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The Power of Problem Exploration
"‘Houston, we’ve had a problem here." John Swigert’s famous words, delivered in a voice as calm and clear as the mountai...
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How 3 Companies Sustained Innovation Success
Next time you switch on your TV or computer display, spare a thought for the company who probably produced the liquid cr...
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What is Free Innovation?
Kittihawk, 1903. Wilbur and Orville Wright, up at an insanely early 5am, listening to the wind singing in the wires of t...
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The Power of User-Led Innovations
Babies are wonderful, a constant source of fascination as you share their discovery of a rich new world and see things a...
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Creating the Physical Space for Innovation
Building spaces for innovation is a hot topic these days. Whether you call them innovation hubs, maker-spaces, fab-labs,...