How To Crush Those Barriers To Collaboration
by Lisa Bodell for Forbes Women What’s stopping you from collaborating with others? What’s stopping your team? According to the Leadership Research Institute, people are willing to collaborate when there’s a personal connection, common interest, or an otherwise compelling reason to so. To move beyond excuses and arrive at solutions, start by asking each of […]
How To Crush Those Barriers To Collaboration
by Lisa Bodell for ForbesWomen What’s stopping you from collaborating with others? What’s stopping your team? According to the Leadership Research Institute, people are willing to collaborate when there’s a personal connection, common interest, or an otherwise compelling reason to so. To move beyond excuses and arrive at solutions, start by asking each of your […]
Get A Killer Innovation Strategy In Just 3 Steps
by Lisa Bodell for ForbesWomen Strategy may seem like an optional ingredient for innovation, but it’s actually the compass for every aspect of your innovation program. Without strategy, innovation is just high-risk chaos with haphazard results. But innovating with strategy? That’s where truly disruptive ideas happen.If you’re not sure how to start building your innovation strategy, concentrate on just […]
How Pro Innovators Manage Risk
by Lisa Bodell for ForbesWomen Organizations like Pixar, Tesla, and Novartis are constantly taking innovation risks, but their leaders have found ways to tolerate and manage that risk better than the competition. When you look closer at these companies, you’ll see a few common methods to their creative madness.For instance, innovative companies aren’t afraid to hire risk-takers. Automaker […]
Where Tomorrow’s Innovators Will Come From
By Lisa Bodell for ForbesWomen As a CEO and futurist in the innovation space for several decades, I constantly encounter predictions about the future. These come from experts, authors and academics who are armed with data points and connections to support their hypotheses. But the most promising prediction I’ve come across? It’s who will solve the world’s biggest problems.Very likely, it’ll […]
Simplify Your Innovation Process Into 5 Phases
by Lisa Bodell for ForbesWomen In a survey from Boston Consulting Group, 79% of executives ranked innovation as a top-three priority for their company. And yet, research suggests that most professionals are unclear about how to bring an innovative idea from concept to market. After more than 20 years in the innovation space, I’ve found that the process can be distilled into […]
Reward Programs That Actually Boost Collaboration
by Lisa Bodell for ForbesWomen Most incentive programs are designed to reward individual performance — not team accomplishments. But as research grows about the value of collaboration, it’s essential that companies find ways to incentivize and reward collaborative behaviors. Organizations like 3M, PepsiCo, and DigitalOcean already use diverse approaches to incentivize collaboration. Rewards can be financial, non-financial, experiential or […]
This Is How The Pros Innovate
by Lisa Bodell for ForbesWomen When was the last time you considered eliminating an element of your best-selling product or service? Or whether your products should be more localized to reach a specific market? Or how you could increase the frequency with which people buy your products? Even if — actually, especially if — your product is a market leader, […]
This Simple Exercise Proves Value Of Collaboration
by Lisa Bodell for ForbesWomen According to research firm McKinsey, organizations can help boost productivity by as much as 25% simply by improving internal collaboration. Animation studio Pixar already knows this. It believes so strongly in collaboration that it redesigned its headquarters to compel interactions all over the company between team members. From the bathrooms to the cafeteria, people are constantly forced […]
Stalled Brainstorm? Try This Trick
by Lisa Bodell for ForbesWomen Unproductive brainstorms: We’ve all been in ‘em—and we all wish we could get those hours of our life back. Even though studies suggest that the most creative ideas of a brainstorm happen after the first burst of ideation fizzles out, most groups give up before reaching this phase. When your own brainstorm reaches the point of painfully […]