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Need Massive Employee Engagement? Get Innovative.
Innovation Programs Lead To Greater Employee Engagement Almost everyone has heard of the Hawthorne Effect, even if you may not know the specific name. It’s a study that you typically hear about…
To Innovate and Disrupt, Stay Creepy My Friends
Sometimes, Creepy Is Good At a patent development ideation session the other day, where we were developing interesting new forward thinking disruptive ideas, someone used the “creepy” to describe one of the…
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6 Ways Getting Lucky Helps You Innovate
Get Lucky to Innovate In earlier posts, I talked about luck and how luck plays a huge role in success. While many people talk about persistence and hard work as the key…
INNOVATION MASTERY 23: Is It Patentable? Non-Obviousness [VIDEO]
Book available here: http://amzn.to/29q9ZsK This episode: Is It Patentable? Non-Obviousness This is a fun one. Many times, people come to me with ideas which are slightly better than something out there and…
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7 Powerful Tips To Make Your Inventors Happy
Successful Innovation Programs Require a Comprehensive Inventor Care Program Who is an inventor? Anyone within your organization who will contribute ideas to the program. Ideally, as many people as possible within the…
What Does “Innovation” Mean To You?
What’s Your Definition of Innovation? The term innovation has become almost meaningless. What does it really mean? What does it mean to your company? What does it mean to your customer? What…
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INNOVATION MASTERY 22: Is It Patentable? Novelty.
Book available here: http://amzn.to/29q9ZsK This episode: Is It Patentable? Novelty Novelty is typically the first criteria of patentability in our book. Simply put, if you can answer the following questions: Has this…
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The Future Of Human Work Is Physical
The Future Of Human Work: Manual Labor Revered A few months ago, I attended an event on the future of conversational interfaces, and during this event, one of the speakers presented the…
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Help! My Executive Sponsor Is Missing! How to Find One (or a New One)
It was a dark and stormy night. The phone rang out in the darkness. I picked up. “Joe,” whispered the guy at the other end of the line, “he’s gone!” It was…
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INNOVATION MASTERY 21: Results: Products, Patents & Unicorns
Book available here: http://amzn.to/29q9ZsK This episode: Your End Result: Products, Patents & Unicorns! The party’s over – what do you do next? As you are planning the outcomes of your innovation program…
