Creativity is the cornerstone of innovation. As a leader, you want to foster imaginative thinking in your employees. The good news is that everybody has imagination. It follows that everybody is capable of coming up with ideas. Whether bad, good, or great, employees bring ideas with them to work every day. So, what’s the correlation…
You could be missing out on $1,237 per employee in untapped ideas. No, really! According to a 2019 study by IdeaScale, each employee has on average $1,237 worth in unused ideas. A separate study also showed that employees come to work with an average of 8 to 10 new ideas every day that could help…
The following is the Afterword found in A World of Creativity by Mark Stinson. As an innovation thought leader, I find creativity one of the most important and captivating subjects. We cannot innovate without raw materials, ideas which are birthed through creativity. The reason creativity is captivating and even magical is because there is no end to…
Innovation and inspiration can be found in all corners of the world. It just takes one person with one idea. Dr. Evans Baiya met the founder of Because International, Kenton Lee, over 14 years ago when Kenton was newly graduated from Northwest Nazarene University. His use of innovation to grow his single idea into a…
It has been said, the best way to find your way around a new location quickly is to ask for ideas. As many of us are working from “new locations,” ideas are more important than ever. How do you capture ideas during crisis? What is the best way to manage those ideas? How do you…
90 Seconds of Innovation Podcast · How Does Idea Management Fit into Innovation? Innovation expert Ron Price explains different tools for idea management and how they apply in the innovation process. Episode Transcript How does idea management fit into innovation? This is Ron Price, co-author of The Innovator’s Advantage. Innovation is the creation of…
90 Seconds of Innovation Podcast · How Can I Think of Great Ideas? Chief Innovation Officer at Better Business Bureau Great West + Pacific Dale Dixon provides tips on how to ideate. Episode Transcript Dale Dixon here, I am the Chief Innovation Officer for Better Business Bureau Northwest + Pacific. How do I get into…
4 Questions to Quantify Your Next Innovation Originally published September 15, 2017, with Innovation Enterprise. You have an idea to solve a problem or opportunity, whether it be a new process for your department or even a new business idea. So how do you figure out if your idea will actually work and if it’s…
In this article, we will look at how to identify and understand employee contributions, and learn how to work with idea generators, evaluators, and activators. The key to recovering from a business crisis is creating new value—whether it be new products or services, improving processes to be more efficient and save money, or identifying and…
90 Seconds of Innovation Podcast · What Happens in the Develop Stage? Ron Price describes the importance of the Develop Stage and continuing to come up with new ideas to test. Episode Transcript What happens in Stage Three, the Develop Stage? This is Ron Price, co-author of The Innovator’s Advantage. In Stage Three, we continue…
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