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Methods of innovation: Improving

Methods of innovation: Improving

From the course: Managing Innovation

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Methods of innovation: Improving

- What's the first thing you do when you're suddenly faced with the need to improve a critical product, process or solution? I bet that before you start blazing the innovation trail, you call your organization's best talent into a war room meeting. You build consensus on the symptoms and jump right into brainstorming. Looking for ideas that address the consensus build problem list. It's a tense and exciting time filled with uncertainties, but also opportunities for innovation fuel disruption. Unfortunately, what ends up being disrupted are everyone's calendars. In the rush to take action and immediately address symptoms. Less urgency was placed on considering the kind of problem being solved and more importantly, the right problems that needed solving. You see impulsive decisions to use familiar idea generating methods often leads to the use of the wrong tool for the wrong job. It's like grabbing a roll of duct tape…

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