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Innovation and Overcoming Organizational Stuckness

Mike Cardus

Using the same strategy. Several years ago, while learning about TRIZ , I came across Nine Windows. With innovation and complexity within your work, working through the past, current, and potential future will develop new paths and emergent strategies for making a change. Limited knowledge, hidden resources, or mechanisms.

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The Global Innovation Interest Index

Harvard Business Review

From the data it appears that people across the world are catching on to open innovation strategies; and even though open approaches originated in the United States, the US is not as interested as competitor regions. Meanwhile, interest in Six Sigma is an area where the United States scores highly. Source: Google Insights for Search.

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8 Routine Causes of Psychological Constipation

Mike Cardus

Using the same strategy. Experience, expertise and reliance upon previous results. Limited knowledge, hidden resources or mechanisms. Inflexibility (model worship; trying to prove a specific theory, stubbornness). Keep thinking the same way and you will continue to get the same result. Rushing to a solution – incomplete thinking. -

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Building Critical Thinking Muscle: An L&D Mandate

QAspire

Don’t forget traditional problem solving tools –5Why, TRIZ, etc & go beyond. Most orgs now anyways look for leaders who can connect the dots +build strategy that’s inclusive which is a clear case for CT – MAHALAKSHMI R. Sustained biz success due to a.Well thought through strategy. – Tanmay Vora.

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