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10 Tips For Motivating Your Employees
10 Tips for Motivating your Employees
1. You can't actually motivate your employees. What??!?? I know
this first tip seems a little counterproductive, but bear with
me. You see, motivation is internal, not external. You can
motivate people...
A Good Leader Knows The Team’s Colours.
Leadership can be a very challenging task. As leaders we don’t always get to choose who is on our team. In fact very often a leader inherits a team, of which most of the members have been there far longer than the leader, and may even know more...
Basket Making Can Be Therapeutic
Basket making has proved to be therapeutic and therapy for
stress relief. Baskets are useful and decorative. People
love to have baskets at home because they are handy to store
things like fruit and magazines, they make beautiful...
Entrepreneurship: What does it REALLY mean?
Introduction: In a world where ideas drive economies, it is no wonder that innovation and entrepreneurship are often seen as inseparable bedfellows. The governments around the world are starting to realize that in order to sustain progress...
How to create ideas of products... and business opportunities
A lot of big inventions were discovered " by chance ". Let's
take the case of the penicillin. In 1928 the scholar Alexander
Fleming discovers it after to have forgotten a culture of
mushrooms in his laboratory. He notices that a mildew that...
Managing Creativity and Innovation is an oxymoron.
When ideas are required, leaders tend to herd people into a room with a flip chart and conduct (usually an ineffective) brainstorming session...
When ideas are required, leaders tend to herd people into a room with a flip chart and...
Small Business Q & A: If It Was Easy Everybody Would Do It
Q: I started my business about a year ago and everything is going fine. We're growing and making a profit, but the stress of running the business is really starting to get to me. I spend more time worrying than working. Sometimes the pressure is...
Success Leaves Clues
How often have you thought of running your own business because you assumed it would be easy? Or if you currently have your own business, you thought, “There’s got to be an easier way to do what I do.”
Fact is, often there is not an “easy way”...
Ten Ways to Maximize Space When Creating a Home Office
When starting a home-based business, some people have the luxury
of an unused room which they can convert into an office. This
provides a private area away from the distractions of home and
family, and keeps your computer and other office...
What Business Card Are You In Need Of?
Have you been in a situation where you are sure that you are in dire need of a business card but then you are perplexed and unable to decide what kind must be chosen? Well, if you're in that situation, you are on the same boat as thousands of...
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Innovation Management – Smart People Don’t Necessarily Produce Great Ideas
Creativity can be defined as problem identification and idea generation whilst innovation can be defined as idea selection, development and commercialisation.
There are distinct processes that enhance problem identification and idea generation and, similarly, distinct processes that enhance idea selection, development and commercialisation. Whilst there is no sure fire route to commercial success, these processes improve the probability that good ideas will be generated and selected and that investment in developing and commercialising those ideas will not be wasted.
One common mistake leaders often make is to rely on smart people to come up with great ideas. This is flawed for a number of reasons:
a) The opinion of smart people is not what matters. The end-user is obviously more important as his or her take-up of the product will determine success or failure. Unfortunately, it is all too often the case that sufficient end-user analysis is lacking before investment is given a GO status. One of the many ways of assessing end-user benefits is to use the buyer experience cycle and utility layers to determine an idea’s ultimate value.
b) The opinion of smart people is less valuable
than the opinions of a large number of people and a large number of diverse and novel people. The result is intellectual cross-pollination that overcomes path dependency, parochialism and leads to frame breaking.
These topics are covered in depth in the MBA dissertation on Managing Creativity & Innovation, which can be purchased (along with a Creativity and Innovation DIY Audit, Good Idea Generator Software and Power Point Presentation) from http://www.managing-creativity.com.
Kal Bishop, MBA
About the Author: Kal Bishop is a management consultant based in London, UK. He has consulted in the visual media and software industries and for clients such as Toshiba and Transport for London. He has led Improv, creativity and innovation workshops, exhibited artwork in San Francisco, Los Angeles and London and written a number of screenplays. He is a passionate traveller. He can be reached on http://www.managing-creativity.com.
Source: www.isnare.com
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