Making Innovation Happen

Innovation has moved from a nice to have competency into a crucial skill needed to excel in today’s marketplace. All organizations have access to information, talent, quality and technology. It’s what you do with these resources (i.e. innovation) that make the difference.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Edward de Bono's Weekly Message 7.26.08

Positive Gangs

The concept is to create 'positive gangs' of youngsters who would do positive things in the community and so get their sense of significance and achievement in this way.
What would these positive gangs do?
These suggestions should go beyond normal volunteering to help worthy causes.
So let me have your suggestions, now and over time, and we can put together a big catalogue of things that positive youth can do and contribute.

Edward de Bono- 12th July 2008

Friday, July 25, 2008

Friday5s Learning Transfer Tool

Did you know only 20% of employees who attend training apply what they've learned long enough to achieve demonstrable results? Another 20% don't apply what they learn at all! Training valuable employees is one of the most important investments a company can make, but how can the results be managed and measured to ensure the investment pays off? The answer is Friday5s.

Click here to read an interview with Grant Todd, one of Innova's Certified Trainers and Friday5s Expert, regarding the impact of innovation training with this powerful learning transfer tool. You can also download a Friday5s summary or attend our Webcast next month to learn how your company can measure for results!

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Article: "Managing Change in an Innovative World"

by: Natalie Jenkins / Producer of Making Innovation Happen

Change Management isn’t what it used to be. I know, I know…we hear that about everything in business these days, but it doesn’t make it less true. In the past Change Management was about mobilizing your employees around the newest strategies / strategic intent or skill building movements. Today, in the innovative environment where constant change is a daily reality often forced upon us by new technologies, new competition, or global pressures, it is not about one big organizational push to reach a specific goal. It is about how you as an individual contributor maintain a spirit of constant agility, flexibility and innovation without losing site of your strategic and performance goals. The bottom-line is how do you get the insight to adapt goals when needed based on new information or new innovation. A pretty intimidating task for anyone. What it comes down to is what can an organization do to equip their employees with the skills they need to:

  • Communicate Effectively
  • Adapt when needed
  • Focus during Chaos
  • Notice what’s important and what’s not
  • Manage daily business in the mist of constant change
  • Create success and recognize it
  • Learn from mistakes

Let’s take it one area at a time.

Click below to continue reading the article:

http://www.innovatraining.com/applications_case_studies/managing_change_article.php

Survey: "Innovation with a side of fries please."

If you could choose up to 3 areas of your life (business or personal) that need innovation, what would you choose?