9 Traits of Highly Innovative People

9 Traits of Highly Innovative People

Tamara Kleinberg, a product innovation expert, shares her tool, the Innovation Quotient Edge, for identifying your innovation strengths. She explains the nine traits of innovators: Collaborative, Experiential, Futuristic, Fluid, Imaginative, Inquisitive, Instinctual, Risk Taker, and Tweaker. Discovering your unique innovator profile can help you drive change in your work. After presenting a new idea, instead of asking ‘what do you think?’, ask ‘What would you do to strengthen this idea?’ and ‘What holes do you see and how would you fill them?’ Learn more in the Everyday Innovator Podcast interview.

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Six Hot Innovation Trends

Six Hot Innovation Trends

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How to use crowdsourcing to validate market-research

How to use crowdsourcing to validate market-research

Market research and crowdsourcing can both offer valuable insights for businesses looking to innovate. Combining the two methods can lead to faster idea generation, wider expertise, clearer problem definition, and more focus on viable options.

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