Comments on: You Don’t Need Any More New Ideas!

By: Why Idea Quality is Crucial « Innovation Leadership Network

Why Idea Quality is Crucial « Innovation Leadership Network — Mon, 31 May 2010 05:01:16 +0000

[...] great ideas, selecting and executing the best of these ideas, and getting your ideas to spread. Most organisations fail in the last two steps, not in generating [...]

By: Connecting is the Fundamental Creative Act in Innovation « Aggregate « Innovation Leadership Network

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:34:29 +0000

[...] often talk about how organisations can place too much emphasis on aggregating ideas. Instead, I think we need to focus on getting better at connecting ideas in novel ways. This is how [...]

By: Using Patents to Measure Innovation is a Really Bad Idea « Innovation « Innovation Leadership Network

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:36:40 +0000

[...] it allows us to see where the weak links are in the innovation process. In nearly all cases, ideas are never the problem. The other advantage of the value chain is that it tells us that we should be measuring different [...]

By: Get Better Ideas, Not More « Connect « Innovation Leadership Network

Get Better Ideas, Not More « Connect « Innovation Leadership Network — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:36:59 +0000

[...] More Innovation is all about executing ideas so that they have economic or social value. John and I have both talked frequently about how many firms overemphasise generating ideas when they try to [...]

By: Three Ways to Win With Your Great Ideas « Business Models « Innovation Leadership Network

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:54:06 +0000

[...] Win With Your Great Ideas I’ve been spending a fair bit of time recently talking about how ideas are cheap. I’ve been doing this for two reasons: the first is that ideas really are cheap; the second [...]

By: Innovation Diffusion Lessons from Edison « Business Models « Innovation Leadership Network

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:09:52 +0000

[...] Diffusion Lessons from Edison How do we win with innovation? I’ve been arguing strongly that one of the key changes in thinking that we have to make is shift from an emphasis on the [...]

By: Using Jams to Select Ideas « Innovation Strategy « Innovation Leadership Network

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:42:24 +0000

[...] Jams to Select Ideas I have talked a couple of times recently about some results from the assignments in my MBA class this year. In assessing [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:09:24 +0000

Thanks for reading & commenting Josh. Glad to hear you agree!

By: Josh Gluckman

Josh Gluckman — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:35:30 +0000

Couldn’t agree more.

We see it time and again that companies mistake building innovation capability with coming up with more ideas.

Yet five minutes into any kind of diagnostic, it’s frequently clear as day that it’s not a lack of ideas that’s the problem, but their successful selection and execution.

And when this is the case, the last thing that’s helpful is 1000 more ideas.

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