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Innovation

How To Launch a Start-Up Within a Big Company

“The best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.” — Michael Arrington, TechCrunch founder and co-editor If you’re an innovator or Entrepreneur, you don’t have to quite your day job. You can innovate inside of a big corporation, too. The question is, how can you launch a successful startup within an established …

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How to Become an Innovator

“Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.” — Pablo Picasso Have you heard someone saying “I hate it when…”, or “I wish it was…”, or “Why wouldn’t they…”? This is the sweet sound of opportunity banging on your door begging you to innovate and solve a problem …

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How To Use Mock Press Releases to Innovate Better

This is a technique I used on Satya Nadella’s Innovation team to ignite ideas and speed up disruptive innovation. It’s writing mock press releases to frame and share big ideas. If you want to create better business ideas to grow and innovate, start with the moch press release approach.  Writing up a mock press release …

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How To Use Narrative Scenarios of the Future to Innovate Better

Narrative Scenarios are an incredibly powerful, and yet simple way, to create and share ideas about future possibilities.  This is especially helpful whether you are a business leader or shaping and shipping products. Narrative Scenarios of the future help you quickly explore the art of the possible. One of the challenges of innovation is sharing …

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How To Get Better at Thinking Up More Ideas

“Think left and think right and think low and think high.  Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.” — Dr. Seuss Creative thinking is a skill and you can learn it.  You can think up more ideas and better ideas if you practice. You just need to know how to practice …

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