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Corporate Imagination Exercises

By Jeffrey Baumgartner - What this means is that if you want to make the most of the innovation potential of your employees, you need to encourage and promote the use of imagination. This includes institutionalizing imagination so that it becomes a core corporate competence. Learn how you can foster imagation in your corporation to improve your staff's creativity. (Added: 5-Dec-2006 Hits: 441 )

Continuous Innovation via the Service Ethic

By Jim Clemmer - New products and services can be "knocked off" or copied. But it's much harder for competitors to duplicate a management system and corporate culture that produces a continuous stream of successful product and service improvements, innovations, adaptations and extensions. That continuous innovation stream comes from controlled chaos, which can be achieved through a four-stage process, according to Jim Clemmer. (Added: 5-Dec-2006 Hits: 289 )

Innovation and Learning Through Successful Failures

By Jim Clemmer - Kettering once said, "An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates from college, he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he's out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails, maybe a thousand times. If he succeeds once, he's in. Those two things are diametrically opposite. (Added: 5-Dec-2006 Hits: 624 )

Thinking the Unthinkable

By Paul Sloane - According to the author, one can broadly simplify innovations into two kinds - incremental and radical. Learn the difference between the two and see which type is applicable to your situation. (Added: 5-Dec-2006 Hits: 359 )

Embracing Innovation

By Sam Kogan - Persuading CEOs to buy into innovation as a blueprint rather than a brainstorm is a key to success, according to Dr. Sam Kogan. (Added: 5-Dec-2006 Hits: 306 )

Ideas Come In All Sizes

By Paul R. Williams - Big ideas, although having impacts that many times are short-lived, do provide incredible boosts in brand recognition, customer loyalty, competitive separation, employee morale, and company performance. The goal of this article, however, is to remind you that, while the pursuit of big ideas is noble, it is short-sighted to discount the huge prospective impact of the numerous small ideas within your organization. (Added: 4-Dec-2006 Hits: 280 )

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