Innovation moves at the speed of strategic clarity. While strategy defines how you will create value, innovation defines what value needs to be created. The clearer your strategy, the easier it is to focus on the problems to be solved, the opportunities to pursue, the customers to serve, and the results that are required. Strategy…
Avoid these four communication landmines as you navigate the stages of innovation. Innovation can sometimes feel like a winding journey that includes steps forward, backward, and sideways. There are even landmines along the way that can stall or derail the process. These landmines are often communication points that, if not properly structured, will cause dysfunction,…
When you think about your job, how do you feel? Truly think about it—write something down even. Are you fulfilled? Frustrated? Overwhelmed, engaged, proud, bored, thankful, unchallenged? If you’re feeling unchallenged and frustrated in your work, then something needs to change—and soon. Because it’s likely you will realize, or already have realized, that your position…
Sam Fife, Director of Innovation at Better Business Bureau Great West + Pacific shares how the Innovator’s Advantage and the Innovation Fitness Assessment™ has impacted company culture and helped create a culture of innovation. Video Transcript Sam Fife: The biggest impact for me, I think, is realizing that everyone in the organization has so much…