Creating a Culture of Innovation
An interview with David Kester, Chief Executive, Design Council. To foster a culture of innovation, managers must look outward to identify consumers’ problems and spark ideas for solving those problems. They must also ease employees’ fear of change.
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
TAKEN!!!…..MGT301
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
I like the examples backing up the theoretical.
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
Great Interview..
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
very innovative
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
Very good stuff..!!
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
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The known universe
14,000,000,000 BCE
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Earth
5,000,000,000 BCE
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Homo sapiens
300,000 BCE
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Fire (applied)
200,000 BCE
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The underlying law of nature (discovered & applied)
2003 CE
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
Great interview, Kester’s approach to fostering a culture of innovation is one that makes complete sense. The view that innovation must come from the top is one that is shared by Laurenz Schaffer, President of DesignworksUSA, who recently featured in one of our interviews looking into the processes that build and define business innovation.
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
i would hire people who wore electric blue shirts and shiny silver ties
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
Think of the underlying law of nature. The way of all things.
Consider its astounding inferences and implications.
The single, underlying law … of nature! Not merely of physics, chemistry, psychology, biology, etc., but of all known fields of inquiry. The law we can all relate to, identify, understand and apply.
Ask yourself. What is the underlying law of nature?
Delight in the question. Have fun in the process of finding the answer firsthand for yourself.
Google it, as a start.
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
@WarriorWaiting you’re right to a point. many managers / owners want the innovation but cannot deal with ideas and approaches that challenge their way of thinking. part of the innovative process should incorporate that consideration, but if the decision maker is not prepared no amount of innovation would be embraced.
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
What an awesome voice – the Brit btw!
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
Innovation is to a company, as water to a boat.
During a smooth weather, it keep the boat afloat, but during a stormy weather, it can also sink the boat. So use it wisely.
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
Oh…was i just snoring….damnn..dat guy was boring!
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
I agree with “warriorwaiting”.
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
Apple does not support your above opinion.
The fight you’re explaining exists only when the culutre fights the idea.
Also, a new idea doesn’t take intellect or revolutionary thinking; it takes a different perception of the same puzzle piece.
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
God, how boring.
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
Did you get an answer to your query? There are a lot of resources available and information. Wikipedia’s innovation section is one of the best explained. Good luck!
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
What is the cards he talks about at 9:30
Where can I find more about them ?
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
wow brilliant innovative ideas presented in a smooth,classy & elegant way.
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
This guy represents everything that is wrong with business today. He is a smooth talking, pin stripe suit wearing, bullshitter who states the bleedin’ obvious and dresses it up in smooth PR. Innovation has nothing to do with his type or harvard or MBA’s. Innovation is fresh thinking, risk taking, revolutionary and uncomfortable. Innovation requires people who can rock the boat and challenge these BS corporate types with high intellect and revolutionary thinking.
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
Booming economies thrive on innovation.
But our economy isnt booming is it?
Theres pent-up demand for innovation.
New ideas must precede innovation.
Because innovation breeds profit
Profit now pays for those ideas.
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
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June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
This guy is a genius! How to create innovation? By creating a culture of innovation, of course! WOW, enlightened.
This is coming out of Harvard? Good thing they have the name recognition to protect them against reality.
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
A good communicator.
June 21st, 2010 at 12:01 am
I would love to participate in the innovation of my enviorement. However where is that posible?