Types of innovation

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If someone asked you, “What is the Statue of Liberty?” would you answer, “It’s between Manhattan, Jersey City, and Governor’s Island?” At Google, the unspoken ambiguity always felt like a running…

Is there an art to discovering breakthroughs? "It’s inevitable that every company must be out there battling for market share, but you don’t really want to be in a situation where the competition is so stiff that any potential upside is eroded away in the process—―a scenario known as perfect competition in economics. [...] Where does innovation come from, and is there a universal framework that can be applied to help consistently make big breakthroughs?" #innovation #agileideas

Colors in data visualization can bring numbers to life and simplify complex information. A world filled with just black-and-white graphs and charts would be dull and boring. Yet, when you add the…

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Over the past few weeks I've been writing about various types of organizational structures that either already exist in today’s business landscape or are starting to emerge as viable options for the future of work. I explore each of these structures and concepts in my book The Future of Work: Attract New [...]

The lean start-up movement has plenty of lessons for large enterprises, and any large company worth its salt is already looking close at what it can learn. A new book tells more.

3 Modes Of Thinking: Lateral, Divergent & Convergent Thought by TeachThought Staff TeachThought is about, more than anything else, human improvement. A core tenet of humanity is our ability to think critically and with imagination and creativity. Therefore, it makes sense that our ability--and the decision to--do this consistently in some ways defines us as a species. Critical thinking, in part, involves simply avoiding cognitive biases . See also What It Means To Think Critically Further…

VideoAs the advance of technology and globalization have changed the world, many impediments to innovation around the world have been removed. As John Levis, global chief innovation officer and regional managing director of the Americas, from Deloitte points out, "capital intensity is no longer a barrier to entry" in most [...]