Competitive Advantage

Competitive advantage: A unique edge a company has over rivals, allowing it to generate greater sales, margins, and retain more customers.

More Innovation Glossaries

Local Innovation

Local innovation refers to methods of creating innovation within a specific group, company, or location rather than a global approach.

Employee Suggestion

Employee Suggestion: Internal ideas submitted by staff to enhance company processes, products, or culture.

Servant Leadership

Philosophy where the main goal of the leader is to help the team reach their goals and do their best work.

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Cultural Differences and Innovation

Cross-cultural and multicultural capabilities are crucial for innovation in today's globalized world. This article explores the effects of cultural differences on innovation and provides practical advice on how to manage them.

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The Part of the Innovation Process that Everyone Forgets

Maintaining excitement and engagement of team members during the innovation process is challenging. The middle part where most of the work happens tends to be forgotten.

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The ongoing challenge is making change our constant

Innovation and change require a more holistic approach to yield optimal value. Transformation aims to reinvent the organization, while change focuses on making the existing system better.

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Diversity and Development go Hand in Hand

Diversity and inclusion training is no longer just an HR initiative, it's getting real results. Companies with diverse and inclusive workforces are more innovative and profitable.

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Diversity and Innovation: Benefiting from a Corporate Culture of Inclusion

Diverse perspectives are integral to successful innovation. This article explores three important diversity frameworks to consider for effective idea management.

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Do you have plans or planners?

Planning is vital for both innovation and strategy. While plans may be useless, planning itself creates value.

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How Structured Collaboration Can End the Chaos

Transparency in the workplace can increase collaboration and cooperation, but it can also lead to work overload and reduced quality of work.

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No They Aren’t Reading Your Fancy Magazine - Communicating Change, Winning Employee Support for New Business Goals, by TJ Larkin and Sandar Larkin

Communicating Change, Winning Employee Support for New Business Goals by TJ Larkin and Sandar Larkin provides insights on how large organizations can effectively communicate change to frontline employees to improve behavior.

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Overcoming Three Obstacles on the Path to Becoming an Adaptable Enterprise

Organizations face three major obstacles on the path to becoming adaptable: lack of commitment from leadership, lack of cross-functional communication and coordination, and lack of focus on results.

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Planned Change and How to Manage It

Planned change is crucial for organizations to achieve new goals or move forward. We examine three well-established models of planned change: Kurt Lewin's three-step model, the action research model, and the positive model.

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The Role of Communication in Innovation Programs

Good communication is essential for a successful innovation program. This article provides practical guidelines on how to create a communication plan that informs, guides, and motivates participants, and improves the quality of their participation.

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Using a Timer Will Make Your Meetings Instantly Better

Meetings can be more effective by using a timer to set out an agenda and keep people focused, leading to faster decisions, increased engagement and more successful collaborations.

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Using Guardrails to Guide Decision Making

Guardrails for decision-making can protect businesses from taking unnecessary risks. Netlfix’s context, not control mentality allows for decision-making guardrails that guide their employees toward good practices while giving them freedom to make independent decisions with responsibility.

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What Are the Eight Steps of Change?

Change management is essential for organizational survival and John Kotter’s Eight Steps of Change provide a blueprint for successful implementation.

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What Are the Goals of Change Management?

Change management is the process of helping employees adapt to organizational change. It can help increase project ROI, minimize disruption, and build employee morale.

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What Is Business Innovation? And What Are Its Benefits?

Business innovation is essential for growth and prosperity. Applying new processes, services, products, and ideas can increase efficiency, solve complex business issues, create uniqueness, and beat the competition.

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What is the Kotter Change Model & How Can It Help?

Learn about the essential 8 steps of the Kotter Change Model and how it can help project managers implement change management successfully.

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Whose responsibility is innovation anyway?

Innovation is no longer just the responsibility of R&D or Marketing departments. It is a contact sport that requires collaboration across the business and externally.

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Why Companies Need to Create an Anti-Distraction Culture

Distraction is a major problem for businesses, affecting productivity and creativity. To combat this, organizations need to streamline workflows and create a culture of focus through anti-distraction policies and time-tracking.

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How Does Diversity and Inclusion Impact Innovation?

Innovation requires participation and diversity plays an important role. Companies with higher levels of diversity have shown more innovation and higher revenue. This article explains how fostering a culture of diversity and inclusivity can enhance innovative thinking.

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How Frontline Employees Drive the Change Management Process

Involving frontline workers in change management can be very beneficial.

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How Innovation Equals Diversity: the Science and Promise of an Inclusive Workplace

Diversity is not just a buzzword in business, it is the key to achieving true innovation. Evidence shows that diverse perspectives lead to creative problem solving and increased profits.

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Positive Ways to Handle Employee Resignations

Learn how to handle employee resignations with positivity and grace by following these tips from an innovation management blog.

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C-Level Executives and Ethical Missteps

Ethical missteps by C-level executives prove the importance of seeking higher moral guidance, according to a Wall Street Journal blog post.

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Change Requests: What They Are & How to Manage Them

Learn the fundamentals of dealing with change requests in project management with these simple yet effective steps.

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Competitive Advantages & Defensibility For Startups | Corporate Lab

Identifying competitive advantages and defensibility measures are crucial for startups to succeed in the long term.

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Fighting Back! The Culture of Fear and Innovation Assassination

Overcoming the fear of innovation implementation is crucial for organizations to thrive in a competitive environment. Encouraging and rewarding creative errors can help shift the culture and promote risk-taking among employees.

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Five Ways to Deal with Toxic Personalities in the Workplace

Learn how to manage difficult team members and troublesome personalities with these 5 tips for project managers.

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Five Ways to Develop Your Leadership Skills

Leadership skills are vital for project managers to improve team performance. Effective communication, team building, vision creation, credibility building, and negotiation are essential qualities for a good leader.

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Innovation Archetypes

Discover the four archetypes of innovation and how they impact the corporate environment.

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Our Guiding Practices for Diversity

Brainzooming, an innovation management blog, is committing to diversity and outlining guiding practices to contribute towards improving black lives and the lives of other people of color in the US and globally.

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These aren't the ideas you are looking for

Executives have the power to derail innovation teams, intentionally or unintentionally, by questioning or casting doubt on their work. Clarity, consistency, and continuity are key factors in overcoming this "executive innovation mind trick".

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To Successfully Implement Innovation in Business, You Must Fight Organizational Culture of Fear and Innovation Assassination

To succeed in implementing innovation in business, organizations must fight against the culture of fear and innovation assassination. This can be achieved by encouraging creative error and defusing potential innovation assassins, while avoiding analysis paralysis.

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Gender Role in Innovation

Equal mix of men and women in innovation process yields optimal results, as each gender brings a complementary effect that yields better results.

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Enterprises: to Embrace Uncertainty, Alleviate Anxiety

To embrace uncertainty, organizations must alleviate anxiety in their workforce. Three strategies to achieve this are decentralizing control, boosting employee wellness, and building a culture of support and cooperation.

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Q & A with Pete Fisher, CIO, Lewis Fowler

Pete Fisher, Vice President Solution Services & CIO at Lewis Fowler, discusses PMO leaders' red flags and solutions in this webinar.

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Removing the disincentives to innovate

Innovation managers should educate middle management and engage company celebrities to create momentum. Tackle IP concerns, and remove disincentives like single sign-on barriers.

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The Race for Reinvention: Employee Engagement Through a Recession

Employee engagement is critical for businesses during economic downturns. This blog focuses on three areas that businesses should pay attention to: flexibility and fringe benefits, putting engagement to the test, and the need to keep innovating.

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Innovation Project for Innovation Management

Accept Mission has launched a new project management tool for innovation managers to create portfolio based on the best ideas and coordinate progress from roadmap to solution delivery.

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Innovation Strategy - 4 Change Management Struggles at Disney

Disney's innovation strategy struggles show that change management is a challenge regardless of company environment. Four change management struggles are highlighted, including scanning outside inspirations.

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Creating Change and Change Management - 4 Strategy Options

Creating Change and Change Management - 4 Strategy Options

Learn the four strategy options for change management to address frustration levels with the status quo situation.

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How can we change the workplace environment for innovation?

How can we change the workplace environment for innovation?

Building the right environment for innovation means understanding the climate and culture of your organization. Climate is observable and easy to change, while culture is deep, stable, and hard to reform.

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The Net Works

The Net Works

Networking is essential to success, but it is poorly understood. Sociologist Robin Dunbar's work on strong and weak ties has shown that we have an upper limit to the number of actual strong social connections we can maintain at any point in time. However, weak ties can help to increase innovation capacity. Trust is the force that makes networks work, and conversations should come first when building relationships.

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Create a driving force for innovation while engaging your employees

Create a driving force for innovation while engaging your employees

Engaging employees in innovation during times of change is key. Establishing a transparent innovation process and understanding employee motivation are crucial for success.

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Leading Change

Leading Change

This bestselling business book serves as both visionary guide and practical toolkit on how to approach the difficult yet crucial work of leading change in any type of organization.

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Cross-industry transfer map

Cross-industry transfer map

Transfer cross-industry insights and come up with new ideas for your challenge!

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