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Innovation: 4 Part Recipe for Sustaining an Innovation Pipeline

Posted on June 4, 2013 by

In today’s era, organisations especially large enterprises are often challenged with shrinking revenues from existing products and services.  Furthermore technological breakthroughs and incremental product development no longer necessarily provide the competitive differentiators to grow their business.  Management need to investigate … Continue reading →

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Agile, Walt Disney Creativity Strategy and Ritual Dissent

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

Recently a colleague and I were facilitating an agile project initiation workshop.  To help the team to come up with ideas and formulate solutions for the problem they were trying to solve we used a method that combined the Walt … Continue reading →

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Innovation through customer collaboration and feedback

Posted on March 9, 2012 by

Nordstrom is one of USA’s leading fashion specialty retailers and is a Fortune 500 company (2011 – ranked 254).  When I think of a fashion retail company, innovation isn’t the first thing that comes to mind.  So how does a … Continue reading →

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Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius

Posted on June 6, 2011 by

“Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius” is a quote from a great video demonstrating how teamwork and agile concepts at IDEO is used to successfully deliver innovation and solutions in a non-IT environment in … Continue reading →

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