Innovation Roundup – 7-18-2014

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

• Blindsided by Innovation: Stop Being Romantic! – You get comfortable, you stop being hungry, you start to miss the signs, and then all of a sudden you’re blindsided by innovation, and you’re out of business. Don’t let it happen to you! Always be innovating. If you don’t someone else in your market will!
• Everyone Needs to Be a Futurist – While most of us are in roles where we are focused on exploiting the current business model, nowadays, everyone’s job, regardless of level, is to be somewhat of a futurist who is able to foresee where the business is going and internalize the change by creating and executing their individual plans.
• The Unusual Habits Of 8 Famous Creative Minds – Though we’d all like to crack the code for reaching our creative breakthrough, it’s likely that emulating the habits prescribed by one famous person or another won’t be the cure-all to your stagnated creativity. Though, there’s probably no harm in giving it a try.  So to satiate your voyeuristic curiosity, compiled here are some of the least orthodox, but still effective creative processes of eight great minds.
• Don’t Dictate a Culture of Innovation – Influence It! – Innovation is a 21st Century imperative and organizations, which fail to innovate, will suffer or even perish. So my challenge to CEO’s is simply this. Get with it! Take ownership of the innovation challenge, plan it, map it, drive its implementation and influence the culture until innovation infuses your entire organization.
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Large Company Innovation – Creating new businesses in any environment is difficult.  But unfortunately, much of the difficulty of doing this within a large company is self-inflicted.  Below are several of the most common mistakes that enterprises make in the pursuit of net new growth – the Seven Deadly Sins of Innovation.  Understand them, and how they can be avoided.

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