Innovation Roundup – 8-15-2014

Here’s a sampling of some great articles about innovation from around the web:

• The Secret Weapon Of The Most Inventive Minds – I’ve noticed something about the most successful and innovative entrepreneurs and business people; they see frustration as opportunity—a chance to do something better, cheaper or faster.
• Why you Should Treat Business Model Innovation as a Fully Established Discipline – While most companies focus their innovation efforts on new products, others like Amazon and Netflix are disrupting industries with business model innovation –a cheaper, easier and more powerful form of innovation.
• 13 Ways to Destroy Creativity and Innovation – Good list with simple but (destructively) powerful ideas
• Organising for Innovation: Old Ideas about New Ideas – Good organization design can help companies become more innovative, but first you have to understand the nature of “new ideas” and how to generate them.
• A Change Model for Smart Execution – “It’s called the Big Easy Change Model and  I use this change model to find the projects that require minimal effort yet have a strong and positive impact.  To begin, plot all possible courses of action or projects you could do to accomplish your change objective on this matrix.”

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