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6 Ways for Entrepreneurs to Manage Their Ideas

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The willingness to expose your ideas to so many people up front likely will help you filter out second-rate ideas. Build a stage-gate process for ideas to be introduced and developed. The goal here is to slow down the implementation process, so that new ideas don’t undermine current, effective practices.

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How Iteration-itis Kills Good Ideas

Harvard Business Review

Instead, there was a problem with the process that an idea generator had to go through before they stood in front of senior leadership. The idea generator had to show the idea to their line manager. That's not to say that idea generators shouldn't get feedback. And screened. And debated. They should.

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Two Questions to Ask Before You Set Up an Innovation Unit

Harvard Business Review

The seven roles for CIUs are: designing shelter for innovation; supporting best practices and methods; developing skills; supporting business unit initiatives; identifying new market spaces; facilitating ideas generation; and directing seed funding. following a traditional stage-gate process).

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

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. Be prepared to revise metrics as the center evolves and celebrate small wins. Acknowledgements.

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What Big Companies Get Wrong About Innovation Metrics

Harvard Business Review

The five most commonly used metrics were: Revenue generated by new products. Stage-gate specific metrics, i.e. projects moving from one. stage to the next. Number of ideas generated. Number of projects in the innovation pipeline. P&L impact or other financial impact.

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Taming Your Company's Most Elusive Beast

Harvard Business Review

R&D investments have been made, stage/gate processes have been built, creativity training courses have been run, and yet the outputs — exciting new products and services — don't seem to be falling into place. Consider, for example, the UK software company, Red Gate. None of them involve idea-generation schemes.

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Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo

Harvard Business Review

Rational-experimental problem solving was built around a series of stages, each leading up to the identification of a solution. Likewise, design thinking is generally described as being made up of modes, stepping stones in the design process, with each mode reflecting a different aspect of design thinking.