Posts by Robert F Brands
Communication is Key for Innovation Implementation and Business Success
The innovation book Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival hammers the point home that innovation is the key to your company’s survival—in other words, “innovate or die.†The recently published Robert’s Rules of Innovation II: The Art of Implementation teaches readers how to implement an organized work culture of innovation in…
Read MoreLearn from the Best: Google’s Nine Principles of Innovation
Google is widely considered, by both the general public and business experts, to be one of the most innovative companies in the world. So how does Google promote a culture of innovation and ensure that innovative ideas are properly implemented, creating profitable new products that position the company for long-term success? Google’s “recipe†for driving innovation is no carefully guarded secret sauce. Rather, Google has openly shared this information with the public.
Read MoreInnovation and How to Recruit and Retain Top Millennial Talent
A key element to successfully implementing innovation is finding and keeping the right people. While it goes without saying that financial capital is critical for innovation implementation, it’s not the organization that has the most money but rather the organization that best utilizes its human capital that will have the best shot at “winning†the innovation race. Ten years from now, Millennials are projected to make up around 75 percent of the global workforce.[1] The Millennial Generation represents the future of your business; accordingly, recruiting and retaining top Millennial talent must be an organizational priority.
Read MoreInnovation and Bridging the Generational Divide
How to Fine-Tune Working Relationships between Boomers and Millennials to Create Harmonious Innovation Teams The innovation book Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival lays out a step-by-step framework of 10 Key Imperatives that an organization must take to achieve profitable business growth through innovation. While a structured, repeatable innovation process is…
Read MoreTop 8 Myths about Innovators and Innovation—Debunked! (Part 2 of 2)
Today’s business world is buzzing with talk about innovators and innovation. While it’s a good thing that innovation is on the forefront of people’s minds, popular thinking about innovation and the culture of innovation in business is often substantially misguided. There are widespread myths about innovation and innovators that lead to significant misconceptions and can…
Read MoreTop 8 Popular Myths about Innovators and Innovation—Debunked! (Part 1 of 2)
For all the buzz-worthy chitchat and media and corporate attention given to innovation, there is nevertheless a massive amount of misinformation concerning innovation…The following are some of the most popular myths about innovators and innovation—debunked.
Read More8 Ways to Fight Brain Drain when Baby Boomers Retire
While many baby boomers are preparing to leave the workforce; organizational leadership at most companies are not prepared to lose them. As reiterated in a McKinsey Quarterly Survey, the baby boomer generation is “the best-educated, most highly skilled aging workforce in U.S. history.
Read MoreWhy Your Organization Needs a “Whip†to Help Build a Widespread Innovation Culture
As an organization builds its top-down, bottom-up structure, a whip is surely needed. So What’s a Whip?
Read MoreSuccessful Implementation: Fighting Innovation Assassination and Organizational Culture of Fear
To successfully implement Innovation in business, you must fight organizational culture of fear and innovation assassination.
Read MoreFighting Back! The Culture of Fear and Innovation Assassination
The chances of successful innovation implementation must appear pretty bleak. Even the terms themselves—“innovation assassination†and “culture of fearâ€â€”are incredibly ominous-sounding. But fear not, there are ways to fight back against the culture of fear and innovation assassination and come out on top. One practical step an organization can take…
Read More