Business innovation: Your Company's growing strategy
By Mark Nelson
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Innovation propels companies forward. It's an unlimited source of new growth and can give businesses a distinct competitive advantage. Learn how to innovate at your own business using Systematic Inventive Thinking, a method based on five techniques that allow you to innovate on demand.
Mark Nelson
Dr. Mark Nelson is a founding director of the Institute of Ecotechnics and has worked for several decades in closed ecological system research, ecological engineering, the restoration of damaged ecosystems, desert agriculture and orchardry, and wastewater recycling. He is Chairman and CEO of the Institute of Ecotechnics, a U.K. and U.S. non-profit organization, which consults to several demonstration projects working in challenging biomes around the world as well as Vice Chairman of Global Ecotechnics Corp. and head of Wastewater Gardens International.
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Business innovation - Mark Nelson
Business Innovation
Your Company’s growing strategy
By: Mark Nelson
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Contents
Business Innovation
Disclaimer
Introduction
1: Understanding How Innovation Occurs
What is innovation? Introducing Systematic Inventive Thinking
The principle of function follows form
The closed-world principle
Characteristics of innovative products and services
Challenging the myth of thinking outside the box
Challenging the myth of serendipity
2: Using the subtraction Technique
Functional fixedeness
The subtraction technique
Subtraction in action
Addressing common challenges
3: Using the Division Technique
Structural fixedness
The division technique
Division in action
Addressing common challenges
4: Using the Multiplication Technique
The multiplication technique
Multiplication in action
Zooming in and Zooming out
Addressing common challenges
5: Using the Task-Unification Technique
The task-unification technique
Task unification in action
Using task unification for busiess issues
Addressing common challenges
6. Using the Attribute Dependency
The attribute dependency technique
Creating an attribute dependency matrix
Types of dependencies
Attribute dependency in action
Addressing common challenges
7.Innovating at work
Running ideation workshops
Which technique to use
Creating new service and process
Creating digital innovations
Involving customers
Evaluating ideas
8.Mastering Innovation
Mastering innovative thinking
Building a pilot program
Addressing organizational challenges with innovation
Next steps
Introduction
- One of my favorite quotes about innovation comes from Harold McAlindon, who said, The world leaders in innovation and creativity
will also be the world leaders in everything else." I believe this. Organizations today have to work very hard to stay competitive and survive in the marketplace, but just surviving is not good enough. Companies want to grow in size and ultimately grow in value to their shareholders, but the ways of doing that are pretty limited.
The only true, sustainable and virtually unlimited source of new growth for any organization is innovation. I'm going to share with you a method of generating ideas called Systematic Inventive Thinking, or SIT. It's based on research by my friend and colleague, Doctor Jacob Goldenberg, who discovered that innovation follows a set of patterns. These patterns can be reapplied to invent new products and services.
Innovation is about making the world a better place, and through the concepts I'll share with you in this course, you'll begin to develop the skills that will help you do just that.
1: Understanding How Innovation Occurs
What is innovation? Introducing Systematic Inventive Thinking
- Are you a trustworthy person? Who says so? Okay, so you have friends and colleagues that say you're trustworthy, but why do these people say so? I'm willing to bet it's because you told them you were going to do something, and you did, over and over. You made, and kept, your promises. And because of that, you now have a brand reputation as someone people can count on. You may not have realized it, but you've understood the basics of branding all along.
Simply put, a brand is a promise. It's a promise you make to consumers when they do business with you. Now that definition may surprise you because most people think of a brand as a logo or a product's name. It's neither. Let's do an experiment. I'm going to show you just two lines on the screen, and when you see them, I want you to say the first word that comes to mind. Ready? Now if you're like most people, these two curved lines reminded you of the golden arches of McDonald's.
Even people who don't go to McDonald's will instantly associate this logo with the company. How can just two hand-drawn lines, that aren't even the right color, by the way, cause you to recall a global billion-dollar fast food chain? Let's take the experiment one more step. Close your eyes and think about a McDonald's restaurant. Can you just taste those marvelous french fries? Can you see a Big Mac and other food items? Do you sense what's going on inside the restaurant, with all the families, the parents playing with their kids, enjoying the time together? This is McDonald's brand promise, those emotional feelings and cravings that are triggered when you think about McDonald's.
The brand logo and the brand name are not the brand itself. Rather, they are the visual cues to trigger that locus of emotions that the brand promises you. Let me share with you Four Keys to Building Successful Brands. First, your brand must be authentic, in that it's truly tied to who you are as a company, meaning your values and core purpose. If these aren't tightly linked, your promise is less believable. Your brand must be relevant, meaning that it promises something that's important to consumers, and that they perceive your brand delivering that promise better than the competition.
You must keep your brand promise consistent across every touchpoint you have with your customers. Why do people see you as trustworthy? Because you're consistent. It's the same for brands. If you lack consistency, you won't build true loyalty. And finally, you and your organization must have a total commitment to keeping the brand promise. Your leadership and all of your employees, the ones who deliver your brand experience to consumers, must live the brand, support it, and continue to invest in it.
If you're working to create a brand, start by thinking of the brand promise. What experience do you want your customers to have when they encounter your brand? As you think about the brands you currently work with, ask yourself, is the promise you're making the right one? Because once you make