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Managing Creativity and Innovation
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Managing Creativity and Innovation

by Harvard Business Review
June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
3h 44m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Idea Generation

Opening the Genie’s Bottle

Key Topics Covered in This Chapter

  • New knowledge as a source of innovation
  • Tapping the ideas of customers
  • Learning from lead users
  • Empathetic design
  • Generating ideas through invention factories and skunkworks
  • Open market innovation
  • The role of mental preparation
  • How management can encourage idea generation

INNOVATIVE IDEAS have many sources. Some originate in a flash of inspiration. Others are accidental. But as Peter Drucker told readers of Harvard Business Review almost two decades ago, most result from a conscious, purposeful search for opportunities to solve problems or please customers.1 His observation supports Thomas Edison’s famous judgment that invention is ninety-nine percent perspiration ...

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ISBN: 9781422131763