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Love is the answer: how innovation and love play the same game

May 13, 2013  |  by Juan Cano-Arribí  |  Differentiation, Innovation Culture, people and innovation  |  No Comments

It is not about sending flowers to employees or having dinner by candlelight… or maybe it is, to some extent. You cannot force people to be creative, or to carry out the extra effort that taking part in innovation entails, or even to have the will to do it, as you can neither force someone to love you. However, you can flirt with them, seduce them. Incidentally, don’t worry if you’re not a seducer, it’s something you can learn, …at least regarding innovation.

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Sustainable innovation (III): stage-gate and monitoring

April 19, 2013  |  by Juan Cano-Arribí  |  Differentiation, Innovation by Objectives, Innovation system  |  No Comments

With this post we complete the series on Sustainable Innovation, keys of innovation management after creativity. This is a point often obviated and that quickly ends up in innovation stagnation; paradoxically the more fertile is the creativity the greater is the stagnation.

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Sustainable innovation (II): ideas that drive you to your goals

April 16, 2013  |  by Juan Cano-Arribí  |  Differentiation, Innovation by Objectives, Innovation system  |  No Comments

As we see in the previous post, is fully doable to be systematic and accurate in innovation management while keeping it flexible and intuitive,… if you have the proper design, tools and management. These are the process key points that make possible to generate innovations continuously and deliver satisfactory results in the most convenient direction for the company.

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Sustainable innovation (I): Is there any other kind?

April 14, 2013  |  by Juan Cano-Arribí  |  Differentiation, Innovation by Objectives, Innovation system  |  No Comments

Technologies, habits of customers, distribution… they’re changing all the time! Your competitors never stop innovating, either. Well, not all of them, it’s true… and not usually all the time, and not even at the same pace, but they do, and keep any industry ever changing boosted by innovation.

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Handling the defeat in the Innovation (III): Responsibility and Learning

April 11, 2011  |  by Juan Cano-Arribí  |  Innovation Culture, Innovation by Objectives, Risk management  |  2 comments

After some interspersed posts, I bring you the last of the series of failure management on innovation. In the previous one we saw the first two of the four lines of action we can take to manage the failure in advance. Here are the other two:

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