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Consultant-Led Innovation

Consultant-Led Innovation

By Hutch Carpenter on May 5, 2014

Finally, remember Innovation won’t come from plans or people outside your company – it will be found in the people you already have inside who understand your company’s strengths and its vulnerabilities. Steve Blank, Esade Business School Commencement Speech I think Steve Blank – well-respected thinker on innovation and entrepreneurship – has hit a key point […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged consultants, consulting, crowdsourcing, employees, innovation, management consulting, mba, Steve Blank | 1 Response

Model for Employee Innovation: Amazon Prime Case Study

Model for Employee Innovation: Amazon Prime Case Study

By Hutch Carpenter on December 2, 2010

As more organizations expand the innovation mandate throughout their workforce, creating and maintaining an ongoing employee innovation program is critical. Sustainable innovation requires a process, not a haphazard, random luck approach. To that end, a useful model to follow is: The different activities address important aspects of innovation, from eliciting tacit ideas inside people’s heads… Read More

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged amazon, blog, crowdsourcing, employees, innovation management, roi

It’s Not Idea Overload. It’s Filter Failure

It’s Not Idea Overload. It’s Filter Failure

By Hutch Carpenter on May 10, 2010

At the recent Front End of Innovation conference, Wells Fargo’s Michael Duke presented in a session devoted to innovation metrics. He opened with a slide that asked attendees: Which would you rather have? – 1,000 ideas; or – 20 working prototypes With a setup like that, what do you think the general response was? Of […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged clay shirky, crowdsourcing, employees, filters, innovation, suggestion box

Avoiding Innovation Chaos inside Companies

Avoiding Innovation Chaos inside Companies

By Hutch Carpenter on March 26, 2010

Great news…you’ve established your innovation platform to solicit ideas, and gosh, did you get them! Hundreds of ideas. Wow! Now what? It just doesn’t make sense to go into an innovation initiative with only half a plan. As in, a plan to market to employees and get the ideas, but not have nailed down what […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged employees, governance, innovation, process

Who Are Your Positive Deviants?

Who Are Your Positive Deviants?

By Hutch Carpenter on March 4, 2010

The future is already here – it is just unevenly distributed The famous William Gibson quote above is generally considered in the context of advanced technologies. Makes sense, seeing as he is a science fiction writer. But I’d like to bring the concept down to a more tangible, prosaic level. One that has value for […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged best practice, crowdsourcing, deviants, e2o, employees, enterprise 2.0, innovation, outliers, positive deviants | 1 Response

Goal Setting Stimulates Employee Innovation

Goal Setting Stimulates Employee Innovation

By Hutch Carpenter on February 12, 2010

In a recent post on the Harvard Business Review blog, Why I Don’t Innovate at Work, Andrew O’Connell writes about some disturbing research: We relentlessly work to avoid “image risks,” to borrow a term from business researchers Feirong Yuan of the University of Kansas and Richard W. Woodman of Texas A&M. They use the phrase […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged employees, goals, innovation, motivation | 3 Responses

Organizations’ Innovation Dark Energy - Employee Motivations

Organizations’ Innovation Dark Energy – Employee Motivations

By Hutch Carpenter on December 9, 2009

Scientists estimate that 74% of the mass-energy of the universe is made up of dark energy. Dark energy is an expansive form of energy that fills the empty space between cosmological objects. Scientists know it’s there, but they can’t see it. Dark energy is a useful metaphor for understanding organizations’ challenge and opportunity in innovation. […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged dark matter, employees, innovation, motivation, science

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