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Predicting the Future: Trend Spotting Resources

March 8, 2010

Product Trends and Inspiration

Most people who have been engaged in creativity and innovation, at some point, come to realize that cross pollination and lateral thinking are important sources for creating insights and generating breakthrough solutions to complex problems. I imagine most people have come to rely on particular resources for their inspiration and for providing [...]

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The Business Model Universe

February 21, 2010

[This is a follow up to the previous post in this blog, "How to Create a Winning Business Model," February 5, 2010.]
If business model innovation is the goal, and for most companies the evidence suggests that it should be, then we need a way to get there.
InnovationLabs has created a unique and powerful methodology that [...]

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How to Create a Winning Business Model

February 5, 2010

As a critical source of competitive advantage, innovation certainly deserves the attention it receives.  But innovation is also notoriously difficult to manage.  And while recognized innovators are widely admired for their achievements, every business leader knows that the pursuit of innovation is exceptionally challenging even as it is entirely necessary.
The roots of the problem lie [...]

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Help Wanted: Innovation (or maybe not…)

January 15, 2010

We hear from executives everywhere about how they are genuinely concerned about the state of innovation in their organizations, and how much they want  innovation to improve.
Often enough, when they need to hire new people, they’re hoping that the new staff will be able to help them with innovation too.  I recently noticed an ad [...]

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The Unknown, the Future, and the Impossible

January 11, 2010

“We sell our souls at the altar of the incremental.”
Well, we do if we embrace the view that that change is slow and steady, and comes out of what came before.
But what if it doesn’t?  What if change is radical, disruptive, breakthrough?
Innovation is always a matter of the dialog between these two poles, between the [...]

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Celebrating Failure (Intelligent Failure that is)

December 3, 2009

The Tata Group is one of India’s most successful and most admired companies.   From its founding in 1868, the company has grown to encompass about 100 different corporate entities, and employs tens of thousands.  The firm’s business units make cars & trucks, steel, tea, electricity, chemicals, consulting services, software, and just about everything else.  You [...]

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