This is a question Brian and I get more often than not when people first read our blog and see that it is about innovation…innovation in a traditionally laggard industry such as ours. What I explain is quite simple. While we are certainly not where we want to be in this area, we have started.… Continue Reading
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Get your Employees Involved to Solve…
One question I get asked on a regular basis is, “How do you get employees involved and interested in helping you innovate?” Great question and like most good questions, there is more than one answer. We have talked about several ways other organizations have been successful in getting this to happen, and here is another… Continue Reading
Want the “Unexpected” – Create a Process
In talking with various people and reading stories about how companies have been successful and being more innovative than their competitors, one thing clearly stands out – they have a process. But here’s the interesting twist – the standard, routine, everyday process is what generally creates the unusual, unexpected, revolutionary discoveries and innovations in their… Continue Reading
5 Strategies to making Open Innovation is a reality…
Open Innovation is a very interesting idea, especially for small and mid-sized companies, like us, because to me it isn’t an intuitive concept to grasp. Understanding the concepts behind it is pretty interesting and can help us as we look for more ways to be innovative. Basically “Open Innovation” means you should use external ideas… Continue Reading
Everyone has great ideas…so what?
In all my years in business and in leading EJ Bartells there is one thing I can say for certain, “Everyone has great ideas, or thinks they have great ideas. Some are bigger than others and some are more complex than others but everyone thinks they have a great idea.” As a leader, isn’t this… Continue Reading
Innovative HR Groups – a Hidden Asset
I recently attended a meeting that Rick and I are participating in where the top leaders in businesses get together and talk about how we can be more innovative companies. The group is called CEOtoCEO Innovation Teams and in just my first session there were tons of good ideas and discussions. But it has gotten… Continue Reading