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Using Strategic Intent to Motivate Idea
Generation
Strategic
intent is senior management's primary
motivational
tool for
radical idea generation.
Senior management
uses strategic intent to
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communicate
a misfit between current resources and corporate aspirations and
motivate idea
generation when it actively encourages
the quest for new opportunities.
The Jazz of Innovation
The improvisation-driven model for
innovation project management doesn’t discard structure, just as there
is a clear structure to good jazz.
In innovation, this structure is created
through
roadmaps,
guiding principles,
business processes, systems and organizational charts.
Strategic planning
and road-mapping processes cannot guarantee brilliant flashes of creative
insight, but they can prepare minds and increase the odds that such flashes
occur in real time. Thus structure, as chords do in jazz, serves as a basis
for improvisation,
experimentations,
discoveries
and
innovation...
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KoRe 10 Innovative
Thinking Tools
KoRe 10 Tools help
innovators approach
creation of
entrepreneurial
strategies and
anticipation of opponents' moves more
systematically.
The Kore 10 Tools help also
innovation leaders and
radical project managers strengthen and
synergize the
most important
areas of innovation...
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Lessons from Jack Welch
To
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Jack Welch,
the former legendary CEO of
GE, a
good leader who can make people feel that they really are
contributing members of a team, that is working toward a shared and worthwhile goal can unleash
huge stores of
positive energy. Welch called them "rewards
for the soul," which, he pointed out, also needed to be accompanied by
"rewards for the wallet."...
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Google:
10 Golden Rules
Encourage
creativity. Google
engineers can spend up to 20 percent of their time on a project of their
choice. There is, of course, an approval process and some oversight, but
basically we want to
allow creative people to be creative. One of our not-so-secret
weapons is our ideas mailing list: a companywide suggestion box where
people can post ideas ranging from parking procedures to the next killer
app. The software allows for everyone to comment on and rate ideas,
permitting the best ideas to percolate to the top...
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Lateral Leadership
A lateral leader is a kind of person who
mastered
lateral thinking
skills and can create a climate for creativity and to transform
your organization into a
powerhouse of innovation. A lateral leader
inspires people
to have the confidence to take risk,
energizes people, and can
help them develop their skills in
creative techniques.
Entrepreneurial Creativity
Your
entrepreneurial creativity
is
a
synergistic
combination of your four capabilities:
Creative Problem Solving
One of the key functions of the
corporate executive is
to
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solve problems and
make decisions with a high level of
competence.
Your ability to deal with problems
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creatively
and effectively is a most important determinant of your success as a
manager and a
corporate leader...
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