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10 for 10: Entrepreneurial Lessons from a Decade-Long Survivor
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 06/08/2015
» Hooray! This week, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Thinkergy Ltd. Most start-ups never make it through the roughs and troughs of their first decade, and we feel very grateful to have survived!
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Six questions to help you make the most of proprietary knowledge
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 20/08/2015
» At the ISPIM Innovation Conference in Budapest two months ago, I participated in an interesting workshop entitled "Constructing the Open Innovation Manager: Renaissance 2.0". In an earlier article four weeks ago, I described the wide-ranging knowledge and skills that an open innovation manager needed to meet the challenging demands of this important position.
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Don't be afraid of the dark side of innovation if you want to succeed
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 03/09/2015
» Creativity and innovation is not only my profession but also my passion. But my quest to create more effective innovation methods has made me realise a related dilemma: What if someone used my expertise to work for "the dark side" of innovation?
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The creative transformation marathon (Part 1)
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 11/06/2015
» Imagine being a sluggish, overweight couch potato. One day you think: "I want to run a marathon." Is that realistic? We all know of examples of people who have done this — but we know there are many more who tried and failed or never got beyond the thought.
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Running the creative transformation marathon (Part 2)
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 25/06/2015
» My last column compared an organisation that wants to become innovative with a couch potato who wants to run a marathon. Both need something that makes them want to change. Both need to check their fitness and readiness for change. Both must resolve to change and then prove their willingness by committing resources (time and money) to it.
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The innovation manager of the future
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 09/07/2015
» Recently I attended the International Society for Professional Innovation Management Innovation Conference in Budapest, Hungary. I presented a paper and ran a discussion on creative leadership, and also attended a workshop on "Constructing the Open Innovation Manager: Renaissance 2.0". In this workshop, innovation experts from both academia and industry explored the knowledge and skill set that the next generation of innovation managers will need in order to successfully operate.
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Tips on how to fight overload and stay creative
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 30/04/2015
» In my previous column, I talked about how overloaded we all feel these days. Caused by technological progress, headcount cuts and the bleeding of work hours into leisure time, this overload is a difficult feature of our lives today. I've shown that work overload hurts communication, productivity and creativity. In this column, I'll show how time pressure and overload kill creativity, and what you can do as an individual to fight back.
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How analytical thinking complements creative thinking
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 14/05/2015
» 'Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it," said the American entrepreneur Henry Ford. Thomas Watson of IBM agreed: "All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work."
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What's your style that lets you succeed?
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 28/05/2015
» It was 8.27am last Sunday when my phone rang. I was reviewing my presentation for a keynote talk that I was supposed to deliver two-and-a-half hours later at an international conference. "Where are you?" the caller asked. "The conference organisers are looking for you. You're supposed to start delivering your keynote in a few minutes."
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Marketers should put their trust in innovators
Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 19/03/2015
» 'Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation," American management consultant, educator and author Peter Drucker once said, and he was right, although I would reverse the order, as innovation must create the products to be marketed. But helping marketers with innovation has shown me that marketers think like Drucker, with marketing being primary and innovation secondary.
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