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

2. Define the innovation process publicly. Rapid innovation requires an effective innovation process. Help people understand how they fit into the system as a whole. Document your innovation process explicitly via maps and charts, and communicate it implicitly by words and practice.  >>>

3. Build cross-functional expertise to harness the power of diversity and discover → synergies. Develop cross-functional individuals. Shuffle portfolios. Establish diverse cross-functional innovation teams.  >>>

4. Establish a creative chaos environment to inspire creativity and trigger accidental discoveries. Encourage improvisation and wild play. Find the right → balance between order and chaos.  >>>

5. Challenge assumptions. 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.  >>>

6. Cross-pollinate. 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.  >>>

7. 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.  >>>

8. Experiment to pursue opportunities, acquire new skills, learn from → feedback and discover new opportunities. Create prototypes to visualize and test your ideas, inspire new ideas, and sell your ideas to your sponsors and peers.  >>>

9. 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.  >>>

10. Measure the progress to take a corrective action and accelerate the pace of ideas to implementation.  >>>

11. Make business fun to make people excited about what they are doing, → working as a team, and tackling new challenges.  >>>

  → Innovation Is Love

→ Value Innovation: Yin-Yang Strategies

→ 10 Commandments of Innovation

→ Systemic Innovation: 7 Areas

→ Innovation-friendly Organization

→ Loose-Tight Leadership

→ Freedom To Fail  ●  → Noble Failure

→ The Virtuous Circle of Experimentation