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Provide strategic alignment

Create an inspiring vision and launch a crusade. Link the innovation strategy with corporate → vision, → stretch goals, objectives, strategy and culture of innovation. Develop a strategic innovation roadmap to choose and do the right things.  >>>

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Define the innovation process publicly

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Build cross-functional expertise

Develop cross-functional individuals to harness the power of diversity and discover → synergies. Start with yourself ‒ become a Master of Business Synergies. Establish diverse cross-functional innovation teams to manage innovation → systemically. Help your people adopt advanced ideation, team creativity and intellectual teamwork techniques such as Innovation Football, KoRe 10 Innovative Thinking Tools (10 KITT), and Spiral Integration of Ideas (SPIN). Shuffle portfolios. >>>

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Establish a creative chaos environment

Creative chaos environment helps to inspire creativity and trigger accidental discoveries. Encourage improvisation and wild play. Find the right → balance between order and chaos.

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Challenge assumptions

Create a culture of → creative dissatisfaction and  questioning.

Think outside-the-box. Ask searching questions "Why?" and "What If?" to identify hidden → problems and → opportunities. Keep eyes open for inspiration. → Brainstorm every day.  >>>

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Facilitate cross-pollination of ideas 

Incorporate a wide range of styles, skills, and perspectives to inspire and develop winning innovative solutions. Encourage comments and ideas. Inspire advocates and critics. Invite outsiders – experts, customers, suppliers, partners. Change hats to generate and evaluate ideas.  >>>

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Reward idea generation

People want to know their ideas make a difference. Recognition and rewards → motivate and encourage people to participate and make quality contributions. They also demonstrate management commitment to the innovation program and to the employees.  >>>

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Experiment with promising ideas

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Allow freedom to fail 

Failure provides a great learning opportunity and should be viewed as a very lifeblood of success. → Learn from failures,  regroup, and start again → more intelligently.

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Measure the progress

An effective measuring system help you take a corrective action and accelerate the pace of ideas to implementation.

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Make business fun