Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

At one large European energy company we consulted with, no less than four separate corporate functions were supposed to be working on innovation—yet none of them was supporting critical needs at the business unit level. This question explores the support model of the Innovation Unit. following a traditional stage-gate process).

Innovation 10

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

There are times when you are so close to a project that it creates a mental block for idea generation. It could be anything (such as wearing a silly hat) that signals to your brain that it is time to go into idea-generating mode. Hiring a consultant can be a great investment. Get an outsider’s opinion.

Creativity 50

Creativity Bottom-up Newsletter Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Take this anecdote: Our innovation consultancy recently played host to a rather unusual job interview when a candidate came to us after selling his company, a premium brand of Cachaça (the Brazilian liquor). Pete Maulik is Chief Operating Officer and Head of Commercial Strategy at Fahrenheit 212 , an innovation consultancy based in New York.

Innovation 15

Innovation Chief Operating Officer Christensen Objective 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

When people within companies try to innovate, they often talk about the challenges they're facing by using language that can inhibit creativity instead of encouraging it, says the business consultant Min Basadur, who has taught the How Might We (HMW) form of questioning to companies over the past four decades.

Innovation 19

Innovation Creativity Cooper Idea Generation 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2011

And various consultancies have also tracked their clients' results from proprietary methods over periods of decades. TRIZ , for example — a model devised by Russian inventor Genrich Altshuller — is the original empirically based method, followed by SIT (for "Systematic Inventive Thinking") and a few other updated versions of it.

Altshuller 15

Altshuller TRIZ Innovation Constraint 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

Designers often embrace quantity and speed of idea generation, with quick-and-dirty prototyping; clinicians, cautious, precise, and scientific in their approach to problem solving, can seem rigid and bureaucratic by comparison.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Based on our experience building innovation teams and consulting for Fortune 500 companies on setting up innovation processes, a key component that has proven to be paramount but consistently neglected is psychological assessment. How can you ensure that your company has innovative teams?

Creativity 8

Creativity Innovation Tools Project 8

Steve Farber

MARCH 12, 2014

They understand that the effectiveness of brainstorming depends on a creative process where each idea generated allows for new ideas to branch off in new directions.” Not the lead consultant. There are no bad ideas (only some we choose not to immediately implement). Familiarity builds trust.

Safe Harbor 89

Safe Harbor How To Brainstorming Short-term 89

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

When my publication, Innovation Leader, surveyed 198 senior innovation executives late last year, in partnership with the consulting firm Innosight, we found them using two different kinds of measures. Number of ideas generated. Number of projects in the innovation pipeline. stage to the next. Alignment can take a while.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). These keep the branches, limbs and twigs (divisions, consultants and vendors) on a growth curve. Creative new ideas generated. The Business Tree™ will not stand without a trunk and the base.

Strategic Planning 66

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 66

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

If you ask consultants or trainers to name all the people skills, they’re likely to name fewer than ten, certainly no more than fifteen. Plus, this artificial clumping of important issues makes it easier for executives to segment “all that stuff” into a secondary “soft” area. But actually, there are several dozen essential people skills.

Skills 104

Skills Construction Goleman Emotional Intelligence 104

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). These keep the branches, limbs and twigs (divisions, consultants and vendors) on a growth curve. Creative new ideas generated. The Business Tree™ will not stand without a trunk and the base.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I have had more than a few engagements that have come about as a result of the need to repair the carnage and devastation that occurred from the implementation of advice put forth, or the ideas generated by a well intentioned yet unqualified “coach”. It’s just that simple.

Blog 385

Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2008

Chainsaw consultant: An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands. Idea hamsters: people who always seem to have their idea generators running. Byte-bonding: When computer users get together and discuss things that noncomputer users don't understand.

Reference 120

Reference Bond Project Stress 120

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The criticisms are several: that design thinking is poorly defined ; that the case for its use relies more on anecdotes than data; that it is little more than basic commonsense, repackaged and then marketed for a hefty consulting fee.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Proposal Politics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

A great amount of money had been spent on consultants and on training a workforce that had no clearer idea at the end of 12 months what they were doing or why. The innovator: leadership as creative idea generation. Unfortunately, I quickly realized that her tenure had been a disaster. These people are focused on the new.

Leadership 14

Leadership Chemicals Execution Influence 14