- accountability
- — creating in idea creation
- — embedding in the idea development process
- — KPIs to create
- Air Canada
- anger as a tool for identifying innovation opportunities
- assumptions
- — challenging your
- — checklist for challenging
- Australian Clean Technologies Competition
- bedsores, innovation in preventing
- blank page, overcoming intimidation of
- blocks to flow of ideas
- boredom, the power of
- brain, exercising your
- brainstorming
- Cadman, Rebekah
- campaigns, innovation
- change, pace of
- checklists
- — for breaking out of habitual thinking
- — for challenging assumptions
- — for creating an innovative culture
- — for creating an innovative workforce
- — for developing your idea
- — for discovering what your customers want
- — for overcoming excuses to avoid thinking
- — for getting unstuck
- — for innovating in your own life
- — for looking for opportunities for innovation
- — for pitching your idea
- — for reaching down
- — for using data
- — for using ideas
- — for valuing other people's ideas
- — for valuing your idea
- Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, data analysis and
- conferences
- confidence in selling your pitch
- creativity
- culture
- — checklist for creating an innovative
- — creating an innovation-oriented
- customers
- — checklist for discovering desires of
- — dissatisfied
- — questions for
- — social media and
- — thinking like
- data
- — analysing effectively
- — checklist for using
- deadlines, motivating creativity with
- determination, importance of to innovation
- see also persistence
- doubts over ideas
- Drake, Edwin L.
- Duell, Charles H.
- Edison, Thomas
- emotions, as tools for identifying innovation opportunities
- enLighten
- Evans, Ed
- exercise, ideas and
- failure
- — as part of the process
- — importance of to innovation
- failure, planning for
- fax machines, innovation and
- Foch, Marechal Ferdinand
- frustration as a tool for identifying innovation opportunities
- gates, innovation and
- Graves, Robert
- habits, creating
- habitual thinking
- — breaking out of
- — checklist for breaking out of
- hay bale combustion, innovation and
- I, Claudius
- IBM
- ideas
- — blocks to flow of
- — checklist for developing
- — checklist for pitching
- — checklist for valuing
- — checklist for valuing other people's
- — doubts and
- — finding the end points of
- — generating
- — giving feedback on bad
- — implementing your
- — incentives for creating
- — informing staff of progress of
- — moments that inspire
- — nurturing
- — responses of staff to rejected
- — sourcing from staff
- — systems for assessing
- — systems for progressing
- — trialling your
- — valuing staff's
- — valuing your
- — writing down
- — see also pitching ideas
- impatience as a tool for identifying innovation opportunities
- incentives for ideas
- information
- — finding connections between different
- — loading up on
- ink, saving costs of
- innovation
- — definition of
- — identifying opportunities for
- — necessity of in today's environment
- — vs. invention
- inspiration, finding
- instruction vs. motivation
- invention vs. innovation
- irritation as a tool for identifying innovation opportunities
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss
- Kelvin, Lord
- Kennedy, Robert F.
- Key Performance Indicators, innovation as
- life, incorporating innovation in your
- lighting industry, innovation and
- Linson-Smith, Lloyd
- management
- — responsibility for innovation of
- — role in nurturing innovation of
- Mann, Dr Sandi
- Meat Pack
- Mirchandani, Suvir
- Morris, Lincoln
- motivation vs. instruction
- nerves, dealing with when pitching ideas
- New Inventors, The
- — example of challenging assumptions from
- — example of habitual thinking from
- — example of questioning everything from
- — example of seeing obvious solutions from
- — invention of the year award from
- newspapers, intriguing headlines for
- Newton, Isaac
- online retail as innovation
- opinions, soliciting others' on your idea
- opportunities for innovation
- — checklist for looking for
- — identifying
- organisations
- — creating an innovative culture in
- — tendency against innovation of
- Pauling, Linus
- people, innovating by interacting with
- perseverance see determination
- persistence in pursuing your ideas
- personal life, checklist for innovating in your
- Piazza, Hannah
- pitches
- — components of effective
- — delivering your
- — using PowerPoint in
- — writing your
- pitching ideas
- — as a story
- — audience for
- — confidence in
- — considering your audience in
- — dealing with nerves when
- — importance of
- — importance of delivery in
- — making yourself available for staff who are
- — questions to answer in
- — verbal tics in
- — who should have the responsibility of
- Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, data analysis and
- PowerPoint, use of in pitching ideas
- problems, thinking through
- processes
- — finding ways to innovate
- — reasons for
- questioning
- — as a way to disrupt habitual thinking
- — your assumptions
- questions, reframing to find solutions to
- retail, innovation and
- Robinson, Ken
- schools, potential for improvement through data analysis
- staff
- — dealing with resistance to thinking innovatively from
- — importance of
- — sourcing ideas from
- Steber, John
- systems
- — finding ways to innovate
- — reasons for
- technology, innovation and
- think, value, use process
- — for individuals
- — for organisations
- thinking
- — breaking out of habitual
- — checklist to overcome excuses to avoid
- — difficulty of
- — habitual
- — like a customer
- — prioritising
- — reasons for not
- time
- — scarcity of
- — devoting to innovation
- Tzu, Lao
- unstuck, checklist for getting
- Upworthy, data analysis and
- Van Wyc, Han
- verbal tics, dealing with when pitching ideas
- Waitley, Denis
- Warner, H. M.
- wheelbarrows, innovation and
- workforce
- — checklist for creating an innovative
- — dealing with resistance to thinking innovatively from
- — sourcing ideas from