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  1. How do you boost an organization’s creative potential? We asked some of today’s most innovative leaders.

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  2. Feb 16, 2022 · 35 of the best innovation quotes to inspire your work. These famous quotes about innovation from Brené Brown, Steve Jobs, and more will give you a whole new perspective. By Kate Bratskeir February 16, 2022. Illustration by Alana Peters/WeWork. Business innovation can help drive a company’s success.

    • The Disconnect Between Academic Labels and Good Storytelling
    • The Enduring Power of Serendipity, Perspiration, and Underdogs
    • The Persuasive Power of Riding Trends

    “Fast follower” and “self-cannibalization” are terms long-used by academics like me to describe, clinically, what some companies are doing to innovate and reinvent their business models. We had two categories that spoke to these terms, and 20 percent of the nominations fell into either one or the other. Significantly, though, many nominees either r...

    Approximately 30 percent of the nominations fell into these “classic” innovators categories, which still enjoy broad resonance. Serendipity involves stumbling over something unusual, and then having the foresight or perspective to capitalize on it. What makes that such an attractive story? It’s the juxtaposition of seemingly independent things. In ...

    Valuable as all the storytelling approaches above can be, it’s worth emphasizing that nearly half (45 percent) of all the nominations were for “the winds of change” award—essentially about harnessing external forces. This notion of riding trends is incredibly powerful, so much so that an award category we created for its polar opposite (“before its...

    • Product innovation. Product innovation is arguably the most well-known form of innovation. It is the development or improvement of new products to solve problems, improve sustainability, or enhance the quality of life for those who use them.
    • Process innovation. Making enhancements to methods or procedures is known as process innovation. This type of innovation aims to increase efficiency and quality while reducing the costs of production.
    • Disruptive innovation. Disruptive innovation enables products or services at the bottom of the market — those which are cheaper and more accessible to the general population — to move up the value chain, taking market value away from competitors.
    • Continuous innovation. Companies that make small, consistent, and low-cost improvements to products or services undergo continuous innovation. Through these enhancements, businesses can evolve their offerings, giving them a competitive advantage.
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  4. How innovation changes the world. The big and small ways invention and transformation can bring about new eras of inspired action, thought and change. Watch now.

  5. Nov 15, 2019 · 1. Solve problems for yourself (or your loved ones) Problems can be a source of opportunity. “Solving someone’s problem is a well-used path to innovation,” the author explains. Necessity is...