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Sparking Innovation (Lessons Learned)
The Lessons Learned Series
Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges? Now you can find out--with Lessons Learned. Concise and engaging, each volume in this new series offers twelve to fourteen insightful essays by top leaders in business, the public sector, and academia on the most pressing issues they've faced.
A crucial resource for today's busy executive, Lessons Learned gives you instant access to the wisdom and expertise of the world's most talented leaders.
Featuring interviews
Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School
Shelly Lazarus, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia
Robert Herbold, Microsoft
Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges? Now you can find out--with Lessons Learned. Concise and engaging, each volume in this new series offers twelve to fourteen insightful essays by top leaders in business, the public sector, and academia on the most pressing issues they've faced.
A crucial resource for today's busy executive, Lessons Learned gives you instant access to the wisdom and expertise of the world's most talented leaders.
Featuring interviews
Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School
Shelly Lazarus, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia
Robert Herbold, Microsoft
112 pages, Paperback
First published August 12, 2008
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March 20, 2017
Wonderful ideas and thoughts are collated by Harvard Business Press..
My Learning on innovation is that the secret is uncovering an unmet consumer need, either an unmet emotional need, and then filling it in an innovation and creative way - Robert Malcolm
To innovate successfully, you have to get closer to the customer; and the closer you get to the customer, the easier it becomes to participate in the idea of Innovation.
If you want to see the future, look at what kids are doing now and if you want to innovative dont try new things, Just look whats already happening, and find a way to make it faster, easier and cheaper.
Instead of putting your efforts into predicting what the future will being, focus on what is happening now.
Take an existing product or service and make it faster, easier and cheaper. Dont try to invent something new.
By working together, you can advance an entire field, creating an even larger market for your product.
Simple product will bring more success than going head to head against the competition to find different uses for old technologies.
Learn to take risks, When you succeed, celebrate; when you fail, learn from your mistakes.
The Difference between innovative work and routine work are the types of people who do the work
To Succeed, you need to find the balance between how much of the past you should take forward and what you should invent for the future.
My Learning on innovation is that the secret is uncovering an unmet consumer need, either an unmet emotional need, and then filling it in an innovation and creative way - Robert Malcolm
To innovate successfully, you have to get closer to the customer; and the closer you get to the customer, the easier it becomes to participate in the idea of Innovation.
If you want to see the future, look at what kids are doing now and if you want to innovative dont try new things, Just look whats already happening, and find a way to make it faster, easier and cheaper.
Instead of putting your efforts into predicting what the future will being, focus on what is happening now.
Take an existing product or service and make it faster, easier and cheaper. Dont try to invent something new.
By working together, you can advance an entire field, creating an even larger market for your product.
Simple product will bring more success than going head to head against the competition to find different uses for old technologies.
Learn to take risks, When you succeed, celebrate; when you fail, learn from your mistakes.
The Difference between innovative work and routine work are the types of people who do the work
To Succeed, you need to find the balance between how much of the past you should take forward and what you should invent for the future.
January 1, 2021
Second in a series of books by HBR about sparking innovation. The section on Jimmy Wales/Wikipedia is my favorite. Quick read..solid content
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