Tag: Jeff DeGraff

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Nov 2, 2015 Innovating Innovation Strategy: Part 2 [In last week’s part-one installment of this three-part article, I highlighted all the things that make innovation so radically different from all other forms of value creation. Read More

Oct 13, 2015 Recreating Your Company [Infographic] It’s an old story–a new company with a new product and a new way of looking at things dislodges established business that can’t keep up. Read More

Sep 28, 2015 The Greatest Innovations Are the Ones You Don’t See Cool, shiny, sleek: these are the qualities we associate with top-shelf innovations. Read More

Aug 31, 2015 Assembling Your Innovation Advisory Board A genius is only as great as his brain trust: the circle of mentors and consultants who nurture and enhance his ideas. Read More

Aug 24, 2015 A Map for Engineering Your Next Innovation [Infographic] Innovation is about bringing together individuals with diverse strengths who can push against each other and build something collaboratively that they never would’ve come up with on their own. Read More

Aug 17, 2015 When Nobody Wants Your Innovation What happens when the comfort of the old is preferable to the risk of the new? Read More

Aug 10, 2015 The Three Realities of Innovators How do you build a bridge to a place that doesn’t yet exist? Read More

Jul 27, 2015 The Unlikely Source of Your Next Big Breakthrough The middleman just might be the vanguard of your next innovation strategy. Read More

Jul 20, 2015 The Wisdom of the Rule of Three For years I trained consultants in the ambiguous and complex art of innovation at a prestigious consulting firm. Read More

Jul 13, 2015 What Will You Give Up to Make Room For Innovation? At the heart of every great innovation is a great compromise: in order to start something new, we have to stop something old. Read More

Jun 29, 2015 Picture This: Using Visual Aids to Inspire Creativity Picture it: this is a phrase that so many creative thinkers use when they’re introducing their new project. Read More

Jun 22, 2015 The 4 Most Creative Kinds of Leaders In today’s snappy corporate speak, forms of creative leadership are like statement blazers or ultra low-rise jeans: they’re either in or they’re out. Read More